jaime.. 0:01 0:13 0:25 0:38 1:57 la polica lleg a esta casa en la calle sandalwood court en el este deos esta madrugada, y encontr unas 300 plantas de marihuana con un valor en la calle de entre 100 mil y 125 mil dlares. s.o.t. albert morales/portavoz, policía de san josé 8:36:21 were seeing taking items out of the residence, it's unknown at this time what those items were. el portavoz de la polica dijo que dieron con la casa porque vecinos vieron gente salir con artculos y lo reportaron como un robo. s.o.t. salvador gómez/residente del ste de san josé 6:37:01 bueno, pues me sorprende yo nunca había visto esto aqui en la vecindad esta de aquí, y ahora ya se está mirando eso, estoy sorprendido. s.o.t. albert morales/portavoz, policía de san josé 11:51:00 officers have been told by residents that there are ties possibly to the cartels from mexico. morales dijo que vecinos le dijeron a oficiales que el cultivo est posiblemente vinculado a los carteles mexicanos de la droga. paralelamente, autoridades federales anunciaron uno de los principales decomisos de metanfetamina s en la historia d

police discovered it on sandalwood court this morning when neighbors called to report what they thought was a burglary. we're live at police headquarters to explain why the home openers could be considered victims. >> reporter: they were renting out the house and they say they had no idea what was going on inside until we told them this afternoon. >> look at this. >> oh, my god. >> he could not believe his eyes. >> oh, my gosh. it's my house. >> when he saw how the inside of this single family home in east san jose had been gutted and converted into a full scale marijuana growing operation. >> oh, my god. >> industrial ventilation, lighting and the remnant was 300 harvested pot plants filled the house. >> police got the call to sandalwood court around 3:00 a.m. when neighbors saw people loading several cars and thought they were witnessing a burglary. instead officers found evidence of a far more lucrative crime. >> there's no mattresses, no beds, nothing. this is definitely a this house is solely for growing marijuana. >> never had a problem with them. always i had and bye. they mind t

say they've confessed -- confiscated $135,000 worth of marijuana in a home in east san jose on sandalwood court neighbors reportedññ suspicious people backing in and out when officers arrived nobody was home and the door was open inside they found' labyrinth growing operation, including -- an elaborate growing operation, including 300 pot plants. >>> abc7 is co-sponsoring a job fair today. terry mcsweeney is live at the hire event at the doubletree hotel. >> reporter: here in san jose 350 jobs available in one place, starting at noon today at the doubletree. if you look you can see extreme learn something here they are looking for in-house and online fors, 130 or so of them. -- online tutors, 130 or so. global treasury management, housekeepers, public relations, cocktail servers, linguists for the army, sales an s, line cooks, manage -- management trainees it is all over the map. a spokeswoman talked about why she loves going online also job fairs are a great place to find work. >> if you are a person going to a -- fisher person going to a pond and keep striking out day after day, why kee

it is an east san jose on the 1300 block of sandalwood court. police got a call at 3 this morning they saw three pe going into the home and i thought it was a robbery in progress. when police arrived and found over 300 pot plants valued at over $125,000. nome was there when the police got there. no one lives and the home and police are calling this a sophisticated row house. we have a crew headed to the scene and we will bring you more in the next half hour. >> lafayette city officials say a portion of the road that collapsed during the weekend storm is likely going to take several months to be repaired. will tran was on the scene and told about this yesterday. workers spent most of yesterday cleaning up the hole with excavators and hoes and dump trucks. city officials say that exposed a foot storm pipe was designed to safely transfer water underneath their road. somehow it failed. you can see there, pretty bad leave the road cavemen sunday morning. the crater is at 80 ft. long as 30 ft. wide and 18 ft. deep. they are investigating at the same t

. >> reporter: san jose's sandalwood court is one of those neighborhoods where everyone knows each other. but residents i talked to didn't know much about the people who lived here. >> they weren't very friendly. so we had suspected something. >> just two guys hi and by all the time. >> reporter: they didn't live there. this house was used for one thing only, to grow pot. police discovered what they believe to be an illegal grow around 3 a.m. when responding to a burglary call. when officers arrived they didn't find any burglars but found inside roughly 300 marijuana plants. >> you had lighting equipment in the individual rooms. you had wiring throughout. you had fertilizer, you know, just the typical items would you use to grow marijuana. >> reporter: the street value of the plants around $125,000. >> somebody who was operating this home was -- knew what they were doing. >> reporter: police will now search county records to find out who owns the house and if the suspects were renting. they face felony charges. in san jose, elissa harrington, cbs 5. >>> the father of oakland raiders head

say they've confessed -- confiscated $135,000 worth of marijuana in a home in east san jose on sandalwood court neighbors reportedññ suspicious people backing in and out when officers arrived nobody was home and the door was open inside they found' labyrinth growing operation, including -- an elaborate growing operation, including 300 pot plants. >>> abc7 is co-sponsoring a job fair today. terry mcsweeney is live at the hire event at the doubletree hotel. >> reporter: here in san jose 350 jobs available in one place, starting at noon today at the doubletree. if you look you can see extreme learn something here they are looking for in-house and online fors, 130 or so of them. -- online tutors, 130 or so. nagement, housekeepers, public relations, cocktail servers, linguists for the army, sales an s, line cooks, manage -- management trainees it is all over the map. a spokeswoman talked about why she loves going online also job fairs are a great place to find work. >> if you are a person going to a -- fisher person going to a pond and keep striking out day after day, why keep going back there

they found it while responding to a burglary call at the house on sandalwood court near south white and story roads. ktvu's janine de la vega has exclusive video about what was found inside and how neighbors are responding. >> reporter: police walked out of this home with boxes of evidence early this morning. officers were originally called here at around 3:00 when a neighbor thought the house was being burglarized after seeing the garage door open and people loading up cars with pro property. instead, this is what police found. we were allowed inside and obtained exclusive video of the harvested plants. in all,00 were discovered -- 300 were discovered. >> they had a ventilation system, a light system, beyond anything i've seen in my experience. a water filtration system. >> reporter: police say when they arrived, no one was home and the front door was opened. investigators determined no ones lived here because the house was professionally modified to grow marijuana. chemical jugs were found in the bathroom. one officer started to feel fill. firefighters were called in. they determined

. >> police responded to the home on sandalwood court just around 3:00 a.m.. neighbors had called them. they thought the home was being robbed. officer found the rental had been converted into a full-scale marijuana growing operation. the homeowner tells us he hadn't been inside for some six months. so far there have not been any arrests. >>> software company founder john mechanic after fee has surfaced in public for the first time in weeks. we have pictures in gat maw la city. his attorneys say he is now at a hotel there after sneaking out of neighboring belize where he's wanted for questioning in murder of his neighbor. says he fears persecution in belize and plans to seek asylum in gat gat. he spent weeks narrating his life on the lamb through e-mails, blog posts and calls to reporters. >>> and we are learning tonight more about the san francisco man charged in an attack on an autistic teen. oakland police say surveillance video from the fruitvale bart station helped lead them to 36-year-old gary steven atkinson. he was charged today with multiple counts in

at a home on the 13 block of sandalwood court in san jose. police got to the home just after 3 this morning after the received a call from a neighbor who saw three men going into the home and it's got a robbery was in progress. when the police arrived they found over 300 pot plants valued at zero hundred and $25,000. no one appears to live in the home and police are calling this a sophisticated grow house. we have a crew headed to the sting and will bring you more information as soon as it comes in. >> i ran state tv says that the country's revolutionary guard has captured a u.s. droned after it entered iranian airspace over persian off. i ran is saying that the drone was captured but gave no further details on the location or when the incident occurred. a u.s. navy spokesperson says that none of their drones are missing in the middle east so we know it is not from the u.s. navy. i ran claimed all so that it brought down a cia spy drunk. >> a woman in a wheelchair is recovering after she was ran over by a muni train at the and sintersection o

investigators tell abc7 news they responded to a home on sandalwood court in east san jose after 3:00e they phone the doors to the home open. when they -- they went in they found an elaborate grow operation with 300 pot plants inside, three cars seen leaving the area before police got there. terry mcsweeney is headed to the scene we'll have more on later editions of abc7 news. >>> we have a new flash of a different kind. for you hungry deal hunters, burger king is offering famous whooper this week for just 55 cents, the special is to celebrate the 55th anniversary of the sandwich, the deal is good thursday through sunday. here's the catch, you have to buy another whooper at full price to get the second one at 55 cents. >> makes sense. abc7 news is dealing up with job journal for another event today, more than 350 jobs available at this free event in san jose, companies hiring, hyatt region , santa clara, army lifeguard, sleep train. bring your resume to the doubletree in san jose from noon to 4:00 this afternoon. >>> still ahead, british newspapers are calling it kate expectations. th

police got the call to sandalwood court around 3:00 this morning when neighbors saw people loading up several cars and thought they were witnessing a burglar. instead they found a more lucrative crime. >> this house was solely for marijuana. >> never had a problem with them. always hi and bye and they minded their own business. >> reporter: neighbors say they have no idea what had been going at this unassuming house. wynn says it had been months since he checked the inside of the house and he feels he has been duked. >> of course, because this is for them to live not for them to do something like this. >> reporter: today we found the little dog they left inside. the marijuana these guys got away with is worth about $100,000 on the street. >>> the search is on tonight for thieves who made off with $1,000 worth of holiday items and tools from a christmas tree lot run by piedmont boy scouts. a spokesperson says the gate was locked but it appears the thieves jumped the fence and made out with the goods. the boy scouts plan to continue selling trees and garland at the lot through christmas

. >>> there was nobody home when police went to a home burglary in sandalwood court in east san josejuana plants growing inside along with chemicals that promised a call to the fire department. >> stay with us. we'll be right back. >>> good morning. let's go live to the san mateo bridge this morning. you can see traffic is a little slow and go as you work your way westbound headed towards foster city. mostly at the toll plaza. heading into hayward not bad. bay bridge slow so that's sluggish also. now off the eastshore freeway, traffic is sluggish as well mostly on the westbound side. here's a live look at the a.c. transit bus that's out and about, it's slow and go there. and westbound 580 at greenville we have an accident stuck in lanes. lawrence. >> a lot of clouds outside this morning. we are getting ready for the next round of rainfall most of that just going to be light to begin with. looking toward the san jose area it is dry there. but plenty of clouds to be found. we are seeing scattered light showers on our high-def doppler radar just beginning to move in along the north bay

police got the call to sandalwood court around 3:00 this morning when neighbors saw people loading up several cars and thought they were witnessing a burglar. instead they found a more lucrative crime. >> this house was solely for marijuana. >> never had a problem with them. always hi and bye and they minded their own business. >> reporter: neighbors say they have no idea what had been going at this unassuming house. wynn says it had been months since he checked the inside of the house and he feels he has been duked. >> of course, because this is for them to live not for them to do something like this. >> reporter: today we found the little dog they left inside. the marijuana these guys got away with is worth about $100,000 on the street. >>> the search is on tonight for thieves who made off with $1,000 worth of holiday items and tools from a christmas tree lot run by piedmont boy scouts. a spokesperson says the gate was locked but it appears the thieves jumped the fence and made out with the goods. the boy scouts plan to continue selling trees and garland at the lot through christmas

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this morning neighbors reported a burglary happening at a home on the 1300 block of sandalwood court.police got there they found the front door open. they entered the home and discovered an elaborate grow house there. we have live pictures of the house here. in fact, officers say there was no furniture inside the home at all just about 300 pot plants with a street value of $125,000. and because of all the chemicals inside the home, they called the fire department. no word on who owns the home. we'll bring you more information as soon as we get it. >>> also firefighters have contained a massive house fire at petaluma this morning. crews were called out just after 3:30 this morning. flames completely destroyed this home. unbelievable video. the home is occupied. but no one was home at the time. the cause is still under investigation. but there's no indication to make the fire suspicious. but a complete mess up in petaluma. >>> and another big problem we're following this morning is muni and i guess new problems, gianna, are causing more delays. >> yes. unfortunately muni can't win. repo