Crime

A Gilroy furniture store is under fire for allegedly scamming customers and operating without a business license for months, according to the Gilroy Police Department.

On the night May 25, the Gilroy Police Department's Traffic Unit held a DUI and Driver's License checkpoint. Of the approximately 598 vehicles that drove through the checkpoint, 43 vehicles were diverted to a secondary checkpoint. Two drivers were arrested for DUI; one was arrested because of a warrant; 29 citations were issued for driving unlicensed and four citations were issued to drivers driving on a suspended license, according to a GPD press release. Four vehicles were impounded from the checkpoint.

Gilroy Police Department Officer Noel Lemus, who was allegedly drunk when he barricaded himself in a bedroom and then resisted arrest at a home in Merced County on March 8, is scheduled for arraignment July 10 in the Merced County Courthouse.

Crews from the Gilroy and Morgan Hill Fire Departments, South Santa Clara Fire District and Calfire responded to a roughly 40-acre vegetation fire at Frazier Lake Road and Bloomfield Avenue in Gilroy this afternoon. At around 3:30 p.m. firefighters were working on "cutting off the head," or containing the head of the fire, according to an employee from Treehaven station on Hecker Pass Road.

Battery

Here’s a sampling of the crime in the Garlic Capital this week:

The preliminary hearing for the five young men accused of killing 14-year-old Tara Romero in a 2011 drive-by shooting was continued again Monday, and the Morgan Hill victim’s family is increasingly anxious about the repeated delays. 

The Gilroy Police Department is targeting drunk drivers this Memorial Day weekend with a DUI checkpoint and using extra DUI-focused patrol officers. 

Officers from the Gilroy Police Department responding to multiple 911 calls about gunfire on the 7500 block of Alexander Street Saturday evening discovered a 20-year-old male from Gilroy had been shot.

Unlawful sexual intercourse