Motorcycle pursuit ends in crash on Watsonville Road
California Highway Patrol officers, Emergency Medical Services and fire personnel responded to a motorcycle crash this morning that ended near Watsonville Road in Gilroy. The driver suffered minor injuries according to Sgt. Pedro Espinoza with the Gilroy Police Department.
Garcia Torres again declines to enter plea
The Superior Court judge presiding over the case of Antolin Garcia Torres Thursday ordered prosecutors to hand over digital evidence that the defense attorney has requested multiple times.
Hit-and-run driver crashes into two cars, flees on foot
A Morgan Hill man was arrested March 20 shortly after he fled the scene of a hit-and-run accident just before 3 p.m. The incident involved three vehicles at the Vineyard Town Center parking lot off West Edmundson Avenue at Monterey Street in Morgan Hill.
Chestnut homicide: Two suspects arrested, a third at large
Two suspects have been arrested in connection with the violent gang-related killing of Jesse Emmanuel Silos, the 30-year-old man who was gunned down last week in front of a home on the 7300 block of Chestnut Street in Gilroy.
UPDATED: Boxer’s gun trouble
Nearly a week after Robert “The Ghost” Guerrero’s arrest at New York’s John F. Kennedy airport, Richard Schaefer, CEO of Golden Boy Promotions, finally provided a statement answering swirling speculation as to why the Gilroy boxing champion had a gun in his possession.
Justice for landscape scammer
After years of tricking people - especially senior citizens - into paying for tree-trimming services he never completed, South County's landscape scammer will soon be forced to pay for his wrongs.
Crime briefs: Fight over prostitute, violent suspect caught by police dog
Gilroy Police responded to a number of crimes this week, both the violent and the just-plain-odd. Here is a sampling of those incidents:
Nearly 3,000 pot plants seized at MH warehouse
Police arrested a Morgan Hill Man on suspicion of growing thousands of marijuana plants in an unpermitted industrial building in south Morgan Hill last week.