Crime

Forcible Rape at Motel 6

The Obata Way pot grow team, which consisted of four men who were arrested May 3 in Gilroy on charges of illegal marijuana cultivation, had an ex-Santa Clara County Sheriff's deputy in the mix.

A daycare employee who attempted to drug several children under her care was arrested on suspicion of child endangerment Monday, police said. 

Marcy Erico, the woman accused of abandoning her 10-year-old daughter at a Morgan Hill Safeway store after a botched shoplifting attempt, was formally sentenced to 60 days in jail plus three years probation at South County Courthouse Monday. 

Cruelty to animals

In an online investigation that unfolded in one day, undercover Gilroy Police arrested six alleged prostitutes at a local motel last weekend.

More than a year after 14-year-old Tara Romero was mistakenly gunned down on city streets, the attorney for one defendant has filed a mental incompetency claim with the court, a move that continues to delay the proceedings and any closure for the families involved.

A San Jose attorney says the Gilroy Police Department Anti Crime Team ignored provisions in the Medical Marijuana Program Act when officers raided a sophisticated, 6,000 square foot indoor pot garden Sunday in an industrial building on the 5900 block of Obata Way in Gilroy.

Crime briefs are taken from the weekly press report sent out by the Gilroy Police Department. Officers recently dealt with juvenile debauchery, piracy and a stolen prosthetic limb worth $30,000.

In response to a "recent rash" of vandalism and theft from City parks that include destruction of fences and theft of swings, the Gilroy Police Department is reaching out to the community for assistance in addressing this issue.