GILROY
– While investigating a theft of baseball cards from a 7-Eleven
market, city police turned up a salable amount of methamphetamine
Wednesday morning and arrested two Gilroy men.
GILROY – While investigating a theft of baseball cards from a 7-Eleven market, city police turned up a salable amount of methamphetamine Wednesday morning and arrested two Gilroy men.
According to police, 22-year-old John Anthony Hernandez and 43-year-old Lennie Carrillo stole a case of unopened baseball cards, worth about $120, from the 7-Eleven at 691 First St. A store clerk made note of their vehicle’s license plate number, which Gilroy police traced to a house at 7335 Wren Ave.
There they arrested Hernandez at 9:57 a.m. Wednesday after a short foot pursuit. In his vehicle police said they found 20 grams (nearly an ounce) of methamphetamine and a small amount of marijuana.
In addition to drug charges he will likely face – the amount of methamphetamine could qualify him for a possession-for-sale charge – police saw him driving with a suspended license, and he was wanted on an warrant related to a charge of alcohol possession by someone under 21, police said.
Hernandez did not have the baseball cards, but police found them – along with a small amount of methamphetamine – with Carrillo, whom they arrested at 12:19 p.m. that same day at a Monterey Street motel. In addition to drug possession, Carrillo could face a second felony charge for petty theft with a prior theft conviction.
Police released Hernandez to appear in court at a later date but booked Carrillo into county jail, where he remained Thursday.
Carrillo lives at 7050 Rosanna St., and Hernandez lives on Ferguson Road, according to police records.
Peter Crowley covers public safety for The Dispatch. You can reach him at pc******@gi************.com or 847-7109.
