Overview
- U.S. Marshals arrested Edward Macias on Jan. 22 in Los Banos without incident and booked him into the Santa Clara County Jail.
- Santa Clara County prosecutors charged Macias with two counts of second-degree robbery and one count of felony carjacking, and jail records list no bail with a Feb. 11 court date.
- Detectives reported finding evidence tied to the crimes during a search of Macias’s residence.
- Authorities say Macias and Mohamed Husein carried out Jan. 17–18 convenience-store robberies in San Jose, brandished a knife, issued death threats, and fled in a stolen Corvette.
- Police say Husein later stole a Corvette from a South San Jose dealership on Jan. 21, exchanged gunfire with officers in Hollister, and was fatally shot in downtown San Jose after wounding a sergeant who has since been released from the hospital.