Crime

An audible sigh rose in the courtroom Tuesday as volunteers who have been searching for missing Morgan Hill teen Sierra LaMar for more than a year realized that Antolin Garcia Torres, 22, also of Morgan Hill, again declined to enter a plea to charges that he killed the missing 15-year-old.

An alleged rape of a 40-year-old intoxicated female has landed three juvenile suspects in custody - one charged with rape and all three with burglary and conspiracy - after an incident Saturday night, according to a press release from the Morgan Hill Police Department.

Morgan Hill police made two separate arrests of suspects on related drug charges Thursday after identifying a suspicious character hanging around the parking lot of the Executive Inn, located at 16505 Condit Road in Morgan Hill.

The Santa Clara County Sheriff's Department and Gilroy Police Department officers were involved in the search for a man who fled from deputies just after 10 a.m. Monday.

Hit and run

Two gunmen robbed the Union Bank in San Juan Bautista on Thursday, according to the sheriff's office.

The case against a 20-year-old Mt. Madonna YMCA employee accused of molesting a 6-year-old girl in the organization’s childcare facility located at Paradise Valley Elementary School turned darker Tuesday.

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.

Drugs: Robert Flores, 40, 11:02 p.m. July 13 on Monterey Road at Leavesley Road in Gilroy, for possession of drug paraphernalia and resist, obstruct, delay arrest. The suspect was riding his bicycle in the wrong direction without any reflectors and then fought with deputies while in process of being detained.

Gilroy Police Department want people to be on the lookout for a silver, four-door Saturn Sedan, bearing California license plate 4YBD579, stolen during a carjacking July 8 on the 700 block of El Cerrito Way.