SAN MARTIN
– For Mary Lou Gonzales, the loss Monday of her big-screen
television, leather and suede jackets, cameras, jewelry, cash and
other valuables doesn’t matter as much as the fact that the
burglars also stole her daughter’s miniature poodle.
SAN MARTIN – For Mary Lou Gonzales, the loss Monday of her big-screen television, leather and suede jackets, cameras, jewelry, cash and other valuables doesn’t matter as much as the fact that the burglars also stole her daughter’s miniature poodle.
“All we want is the dog,” Gonzales said Tuesday. “The other stuff can be replaced.”
The pedigreed male miniature poodle, named Edgar, is gray in color, responds to his name and weighs six to seven pounds.
“(The burglars) must have thought he was worth some money,” Gonzales said. The Gonzales family paid $500 for Edgar as a puppy three years ago.
Sheriff’s deputies have no suspects at this time, according to Det. Frank Lopez. The burglar or burglars appear to have entered the 12240 Center Ave., San Martin house through a window, Lopez said. In addition to the aforementioned items, Gonzales said the burglars also took a number of commercial hair products that her daughter, a hairdresser, had just purchased.
Also on Monday, the burglars reportedly broke into Gonzales’ sister’s house, located behind on the same property. Stolen from the sister’s home was a television, VCR, video game system, stereo and jewelry, according to Gonzales.
“It’s scary,” Gonzales said Tuesday. “I couldn’t sleep last night.”
In another case of dog-related burglary, Sheriff’s deputies arrested two women for allegedly stealing a dog kennel/carrier – valued at $580 – from a house at Godfrey Avenue at Crews Road, east of Gilroy.
Deputies arrested Regina Labeff, 41, who lives two doors down from the victim, and Doanya Puccini, 34, of Hollister, and charged them with grand theft and possession of stolen property, both felonies. Some time after the Sept. 26 theft, someone reported seeing Labeff and Puccini loading the dog carrier from Puccini’s truck into Labeff’s house. Deputies reported that Labeff tried to hide from them in a nearby barn when they came looking for her.
Anyone with information, regarding Edgar, the poodle, should call the Sheriff’s Department at 299-2101.
