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GILROY—South Valley Middle School is in the dark after nearly $4,000 worth of surveillance equipment was stolen from the campus June 26, Gilroy Police Department Sgt. Royce Heath said. Two unidentified males clambered onto the roof around 2:15 a.m. and pried six cameras from their housing under the cover of darkness.

GILROY—Gilroy will soon join other Santa Clara County cities in an expanded, regional system of high-tech radio communications that links first responders, law enforcement agencies and the area’s largest transit agency.

GILROY—With three suspects accused of the Feb. 16 slaying and robbery of Gilroy’s Robert Heiser behind bars, one piece of the puzzle remains missing. Isabella Aurora Chaidez, a 17-year-old San Jose woman wanted in connection to his murder and at least one other violent crime in the Bay area, is still on the lam, according to Gilroy police.

GILROY—A Gilroy woman accused of swindling hundreds of thousands of dollars from people sending money to families in Mexico was arrested and charged this week with 14 felonies.

GILROY—A Christopher High School sophomore was killed in a Gilroy car wreck on Saturday when the vehicle she was in with two schoolmates veered off Miller Avenue and smashed into a tree.

GILROY—The teenage stepdaughter of a Gilroy policeman accidentally shot herself in the leg Monday with his pistol and is in stable condition after emergency surgery, according to Gilroy Police Department Sgt. Royce Heath.

On the morning of Aug. 9, 44 local children and their families got the chance to do something they otherwise couldn't: go shopping for new back-to-school clothes. They went shopping at Kohl's on Camino Arroyo, where each child picked out roughly $115 in new clothing. But when the families arrived at the registers to check out, members of the Gilroy Exchange Club footed the bill.

Dear Red Phone,

Gilroy Police officers responded to an attempted bank robbery at approximately 4:36 p.m. Friday at Citibank, located at 7050 Camino Arroyo in Gilroy.

An ongoing battle waging between the City of Gilroy and an “Internet cafe” the state Attorney General has called an “illegal gambling operation” took another turn shortly before 4 p.m. Aug. 22 at 1325 First St. in Hecker Pass Plaza.