Easy rider: It’s unclear where she was going, but 45-year-old Marcy Elizabeth Meagher decided she needed some wheels to get there. Unfortunately, her plan to allegedly liberate a Schwinn bicycle valued at $169 by simply taking it past the registers at a store on Camino Arroyo at 2:57 p.m. July 12 without paying for it was punctured by eagle-eyed employees. After Gilroy Police Department officers arrived, it was discovered that Meagher had also helped herself to a plastic spray bottle worth 92 cents.
No receipt deceit
July 12 seems to have been a high action day for local law enforcement on Camino Arroyo. Less than three hours after Meagher’s failed attempt at a two-wheeled adventure, another woman decided to test Walmart’s promise to refund money for unwanted purchases. The suspect, who is known to local officers but hasn’t been named, waltzed into the store, allegedly selected a family-size pack of Tecate beer (36 cans, for those never-ending summer nights) and took it to customer services to get a refund in cash. There was of course a missing step in her tale of impulse purchase regret, namely that she hadn’t actually purchased the beer. Busted by the store’s loss prevention officers as she attempted to make good her escape, the woman handed back the money, fled the store and burnt rubber in her 1985, blue Chevrolet Camaro. A warrant has now been requested by GPD.
Cunning car thief
Was it a brazen statement of defiance or a joy rider following the direction of his or her internal moral compass? No one can say for sure, but while GPD officers were out July 13 searching for a 1987 Toyota Cressida taken from the 7700 block of Wren Avenue, probably the last place they expected it to turn up later in the day was in its original location on Wren Avenue. Well played car thief, well played. Your move GPD.
Roman numerals, circled stars
Some religions use the five-pointed star as part of their religious iconography and the circled variation belongs in the domain of the Neo-Pagans. Still, it seems somewhat unlikely that a bunch of Wiccans would have depicted their venerated symbol onto a river rock and thrown it through the window of a house on Carmel Street at 1:01 a.m. July 15. Another two rocks, one bearing the Roman numerals XIV also found their way into the front living room, destroying not only a $300 window but a 40-inch Toshiba flat screen TV valued at $600.
