Sonya Steptoe and Deja Packer are accused of breaking into the apartment of a relative at a senior living complex in South San Jose.
SAN JOSE — The mother and sister of a San Jose Police Department officer who died suddenly last month were charged Wednesday with robbing and burglarizing a relative at a senior living complex over the weekend, according to prosecutors and court documents.
Police were quick to emphasize that the arrest of Steptoe was not connected to the death of her son, 24-year-old De’Jon Packer, a rookie SJPD officer and former San Jose State University football standoutAn official cause of death is still pending, according to the Santa Clara County Medical Examiner-Coroner’s Office. De’Jon Packer was warmly remembered in aBoth women were arraigned Wednesday in a San Jose courtroom.
The resident of the apartment unit, described in the criminal complaint as a 74-year-old man, reportedly told police that Steptoe was responsible for the thefts. Brown was less flexible for Steptoe: She rejected Deputy Public Defender Meghan Piano’s request to drastically decrease or eliminate her client’s bail, which had been initially set at $200,000. Piano echoed a statement she gave Tuesday about Steptoe, telling Brown that “the heartbreak and trauma they’ve experienced in the past three weeks no doubt had bearing on this.”
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