Crime

The Gilroy Police Department is spending $100,000 to bolster its high-tech arsenal in an effort to gain the upper hand in the ongoing fight against crime.

The former Gilroy Unified School District Board of Education trustee who is already facing charges for swindling $52,000 from a leading South County nonprofit organization, as well as billing an engineering firm for meetings that supposedly never occurred is now being accused of misusing thousands of dollars from his 2010 campaign donations.

As the weather warms, Gilroy Police have fought a multitude of criminals, including one felon with an AK-47 in his trunk. Here’s a few events:

After a year-long legal battle, a trial will soon come to fruition for the Gilroy woman who allegedly killed her husband and daughter in a drunken car crash in Los Gatos last February. 

The former Gilroy Unified School District Board of Education trustee who is already facing charges for embezzling $52,000 from a leading South County social services agency is now up against additional charges for allegedly embezzling thousands of dollars from his 2010 campaign account. 

Pants around ankles and being high in public

Police officers conducted several minor decoy/Should Tap operations throughout Morgan Hill last Saturday, April 27 and made four arrests for furnishing alcohol to a minor, according to Corpl. Scott Purivs with MHPD.

It was crime as usual this week, plus a couple of strange incidents. Here's what Gilroy Police have been up to this week:

The Hollister woman who tried to slip a sleep-aid drug into children’s drinks at the Morgan Hill day care facility where she worked pleaded no contest to attempted child endangerment at South County Courthouse Thursday.

As party-goers celebrate Cinco de Mayo with mariachi music and authentic cuisine this weekend, many will also indulge with their favorite margarita or tequila, then choose to get behind the wheel and drive to their next destination. That’s why this year the Santa Clara County Avoid the 13 DUI Task Force is joining with others across the state and nation to encourage everyone to plan ahead this Cinco de Mayo and not drink and drive, according to a press release from the Sheriff’s office.