Crime

As a part of this winter holiday season’s enhanced DUI enforcement period, officers in Santa Clara County arrested 432 people on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs. Of these arrests, 63 were made by Gilroy and Morgan Hill police.

The Gilroy Police Department received multiple calls around 9:33 p.m. Monday regarding a subject who had been shot near Old Gilroy and Alexander streets. Officers arrived at the scene and located the victim lying in the middle of the street, according to a GPD press release.

During a three-day sting targeting illegal outdoor marijuana gardens last week, authorities with the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s office removed miles of irrigation tubes, cleaned up four tons of trash and destroyed the infrastructure of numerous cultivation sites in South County, police said.

Vandalism

An unknown amount of cash was stolen Wednesday evening from the Community Christian Church located at 305 W. Main Ave. in Morgan Hill.

Gilroy Police Officers responded to an armed robbery at 7:39 p.m. Sunday at the Gavilan Market, located at 8110 Westwood Drive in Gilroy.

On Friday at 7:20 p.m., Billy Gidding, 31, was arrested for driving under the influence after losing control of his 1994 Chevrolet truck and careening into a tree on Wren Avenue near Antonio Del Buono Elementary School. Gilroy police arrested Gidding, who was taken to a nearby hospital and treated for minor injuries.

The owner of a downtown Gilroy concert house and former executive director of the Morgan Hill Downtown Association was arraigned on charges of embezzlement and grand theft at the South County Courthouse Friday.

Possession of a controlled substance, violation of a protective order and battery against a spouse

Gilroy Police last week responded to a variety of crimes, including child abuse, drug possession, found property, fraud and identity theft.