Crime

The elderly man whose dead body was found in a motorhome on West Eighth Street last month has been labeled a "suspicious death" by the Gilroy Police Department. 

A fourth defendant – a female minor accused of being in the room where another teenage girl was sexually violated by three classmates – has been added to the Audrie Pott wrongful death civil lawsuit, which already includes a current Christopher High School student.

Gilroy Police officers and firefighter paramedics responded to an incident Sunday evening involving a "very agitated" man who was behaving erratically and began lining up his handguns inside his home and rifles outside his home near the corner of Wayland Lane and Welburn Avenue in Gilroy, according to GPD Sgt. Chad Gallaciano, who was on the scene at the time.

California is in the middle of a severe fire season that started early, authorities say.

It's been a week for beer and electronics theft for the Gilroy Police Department.

Drinking in public

The Gilroy woman who killed her husband and daughter in a drunken car crash last year cried her way through her murder trial Wednesday morning.

Gilroy Police Department is asking for the public’s help in identifying two men who robbed a 32-year-old woman at gunpoint in front of her children.

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.