SAN JOSE — A Willow Glen man was arrested Monday on suspicion of getting an array of unlawful weapons, bomb-making supplies and fentanyl, following a 911 name through which he claimed to have shot at an armed intruder that police say was a figment of his creativeness.
San Jose cops have been known as at 1:18 p.m. Monday to the 2200 block of Cottle Avenue after the person reported {that a} gunman was attempting to interrupt into his dwelling, and that he shot on the intruder, in line with the police division.
The responding officers summoned the resident out of the house, and he informed them that the gunman “was still inside,” police stated. However after officers searched the house and didn’t discover anybody, they determined his gunman declare was false, and that the person “may have been hallucinating.”
Whereas officers have been inside the house, they noticed a number of firearms, together with home made weapons and weapons with serial numbers that have been altered or eliminated, police stated. They known as within the police division’s Gun and Hazardous Offender Suppression Staff — which is tasked with investigating privately made, untraceable firearms referred to as “ghost” weapons — and obtained a search warrant for the house.
Police stated the warrant search led to the seizure of almost two-dozen assembled and partially assembled firearms, together with stolen weapons and submachine weapons, together with “bomb making precursor materials” and narcotics suspected to be fentanyl. Jacob Lafaver, 28, was arrested on suspicion of a number of weapons crimes and was booked into the Santa Clara County Foremost Jail in lieu of $290,000 bail, jail data present.
Initially Printed: February 12, 2025 at 7:38 AM PST
