Crime

The Santa Clara County District Attorney is vetting a complaint from an east coast family claiming that a Gilroy man is illegally conducting international adoptions from his Valley Oaks Drive home.  

A 50-year-old San Jose handyman was held against his will by two suspects and forced to perform repairs at a home in unincorporated Morgan Hill before escaping, authorities said.

UPDATE: At 5 a.m., Monterey California Highway Patrol arrested four suspects in San Miguel for this robbery as well as two other recent robberies in Morgan Hill and King City. The suspects were stopped in a silver Lexus, and evidence in the car linked them to the Chevron robbery in Gilroy, according to Police Sgt. Pedro Espinoza. Names and photos of suspects have not yet been released. 

The Gilroy woman charged with murder for killing her husband and daughter in a drunken car crash in Los Gatos 10 months ago has been deemed mentally competent to withstand trial, despite opposite claims from her defense.

Burglars have struck a downtown business once again, this time preying on a graphic design company on Fifth and Monterey Streets.

Local authorities recently raided a large cockfight in progress on Frazier Lake Road and arrested seven suspects, according to the Hollister Police Department.

A controversial practice that defies federal requests to detain criminal suspects who are also undocumented aliens is being challenged by Santa Clara County District Attorney Jeff Rosen.

Two men broke into an occupied home on the 300 block of Mantelli Drive late Wednesday morning, identifying themselves as policemen and threatening a woman with a crowbar as they forced her to lead them around the house in search of valuables.