Overview
- Home surveillance footage from Sept. 5 showed two people posing as delivery workers at a South San Jose home, with one person pulling a firearm before the pair fled without making entry.
- Investigators used automated license-plate reader data to trace the suspect vehicle and, with help from the U.S. Marshals and Texas authorities, detained 20-year-old Damian Vielma and 19-year-old Jeremiah Clybourn in Dallas on Sept. 24.
- A Dallas search warrant recovered multiple firearms including the weapon shown in the San Jose video, and both men were booked into Dallas County Jail on charges that include attempted robbery, possession of a stolen vehicle, and firearm offenses while awaiting extradition to Santa Clara County.
- San Jose detectives say evidence links the suspects to crimes in other jurisdictions, including Atherton, and that the pair typically targeted people believed to hold large amounts of cryptocurrency; investigators are probing how victims were identified and have asked the public to contact Detective Ledesma with tips.
- Police and local reporting note the arrests fit a wider pattern of violent incidents targeting crypto owners and could spur further multi-jurisdictional investigations into how attackers find and select high-value targets.