Crime

The Gilroy Police Department arrested a suspected burglar on the 6400 block of Barron Place in Gilroy on Friday. GPD were notified of an intruder entering the house at 10:15 a.m. by a concerned neighbor, said Gilroy Police Sgt. Daniel Castaneda. GPD officers and a SWAT team surrounded the house and ordered the suspect to leave the property.

Santa Clara County Supervisor George Shirakawa announced he will resign from office, citing his intention to plead guilty to charges filed by authorities Friday related to Shirakawa’s failure to file campaign finance reports and “inappropriate use of (his) county credit card,” according to a resignation letter he submitted Friday morning. 

Registered sex offender on school property

Santa Clara resident Anthony Tamayo, 71, died around 1:25 p.m. Sunday afternoon when the 2013 Chrysler 300 he was driving ran off the highway near Burnette Avenue, just north of Cochrane Road on U.S. 101 in Morgan Hill.

Chronic drug sales and public drinking have turned Miller Park into a hub of shadiness – and not the kind provided by trees.

A drug raid in the 1100 block of Apache Court in Gilroy on Thursday netted 70 pounds of processed marijuana and 468 marijuana plants with a combined street value of approximately $608,000, according to the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office Marijuana Enforcement Team.

This week, Gilroy Police responded to incidents that included pants theft, drunk in public, assault and identity theft. Here are a few of those incidents:

Two former officials of the Mexican American Community Services Agency known as MACSA, the community organization which used to run the El Portal Leadership charter school in Gilroy, pleaded guilty to fraudulently using employees’ retirement savings for unauthorized expenses Friday.

Police are looking for two unidentified suspects who allegedly stole cash, lottery tickets and cigarettes during an armed robbery of a Morgan Hill convenience store late early Thursday morning. 

Morgan Hill and San Jose police caught up to a man with $1.6 million worth of warrants out for his arrest, after he fled a traffic stop last week, authorities said.