Police Briefs
Missing juvenile
A mentally handicapped 12-year-old girl rode off on a blue Specialized bicycle from a children’s home, about 9:30 a.m. Tuesday. The girl, not a resident of Gilroy, was still missing as of Thursday morning.
When she left the home, the girl was wearing a teal jacket and blue jeans. It is a possibility that the girl might try to take a bus to San Francisco.
False holdup alarm downtown
Police responded to a report of a robbery downtown, but found it was a false alarm.
The holdup alarm of a business on Monterey Street between Fifth and Sixth streets was accidentally set about 9:30 a.m. Wednesday. Police arrived on scene and, with guns drawn, entered the store, but found that the alarm was tripped accidentally.
American flag torched
On the same morning that a suspicious fire broke out at Bay Sheets paper company and two intentional fires hit Gilroy Ford Lincoln Mercury and the Gilroy Sports Complex, an American flag was also burned, according to the flag’s owner.
“We do not know why anyone would do this,” the flag’s owner, Nikita Lee, wrote in an e-mail.
Lee said she went outside her house with her kids about 10 a.m. Dec. 8 and noticed a smoldering pile of cloth on the ground. She was getting her garden hose out when she looked up and realized her flag was gone. The Lee’s home is near the intersection of Church Street and Luchessa Avenue, within a half-mile of the fires at both the car dealership and the sports park, which were set at 3:38 a.m. and 6:38 a.m.
Lee’s husband left the house at about 6 a.m. that morning to attend military drills and did not notice the flag missing, Lee said. That led Lee to believe that the fire was set while she and her children were inside sleeping.
