SAN JOSE — When Linh arrived at her uncle’s jewelry store earlier this month, she found a sea of police cars and her 88-year-old uncle sitting in a chair in front of the store, shaking and panicked – “in shock,” she said.

It was only about ten minutes after a car had rammed into the front of Kim Hung Jewelry on Aborn Road in San Jose. A crowd of more than a dozen people rushed in, smashed jewelry cases and made off with a bounty of stolen jewelry in the shocking Sept. 5 robbery; her uncle was violently shoved to the ground by one of the robbers.

The incident garnered international headlines and widespread outrage. The robbery was one of several brazen Bay Area smash-and-grabs that have made headlines in recent weeks. Twenty people, some armed with guns, stormed a jewelry store in San Ram

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