Crime

Something stinks in the aftermath of the Gilroy Garlic Festival, and no, it’s not of garlic.

Repeat taggers beware: You may be getting away with vandalizing community property now, but know that your photo might be plastered all over the Gilroy Police Department. In a very literal sense, police have got their eye on you.

Over the past few days, police have responded to several incidents in which drugs caused suspects to behave erratically. Here are a few of those events:

Three more arrests add to the pile of recent suspects allegedly caught in a series of burglaries in Morgan Hill, police said.

Fire crews responded to a vegetation fire that broke out around 4:30 p.m. Wednesday near Christmas Hill Park in Gilroy, according to Jim Crawford, battalion chief for the South Santa Clara County Fire District and CalFire.

A small honey-colored dog was found three days ago in Uvas Creek in Christmas Hill Park with her head barely above the water because a brick had been tied with rope to her small hind legs, said Hector Beltran who rescued the pup.

Gilroy Police had a successful night with five arrests for drunk driving as  part of the DUI checkpoint they conducted on Monterey Road at Howson Street on Friday night.

Teens looking for trouble are painting the town red this summer – and blue and pink and yellow – in a destructive pastime of defacing community property, leading the Gilroy Police Department and community volunteers to tackle what they have identified as a “surge” in graffiti over the last few months.

The 79-year-old man suffering from Alzheimer’s who went missing Friday morning, was located Saturday morning by emergency medical service personnel near Valley Medical Center in San Jose, according to Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Sgt. Jose Cardoza.