Crime

Police are investigating an armed robbery at a Morgan Hill jewelry store. 

Three Morgan Hill high school students who were ordered to remove their American flag clothing to avoid offending students celebrating their Mexican heritage on Cinco de Mayo (May 5) in 2010 filed an appeal with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit today, according to their attorney William J. Becker, with The Becker Law Firm.

Gilroy police arrests and citations Feb. 22 through Feb. 28.

On Monday, the trial for James Francis Lee who is charged with driving under the influence and manslaughter in the death of a 4-year-old boy was delayed again - now until June 25.

Police are looking for a man who was in an auto accident with a Morgan Hill teen, then assaulted her and stole her purse when the two stopped to exchange information. 

Two people were arrested with a pound of marijuana in their car after police saw them smoking a joint outside a downtown restaurant, authorities said.

The body of a Hollister hiker was extracted Sunday afternoon from the rocky face of a tree-covered mountain jutting high above Highway 152, according to Sgt. Jose Cardoza with the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Department.

The police report from the July 2011 incident that sparked an internal investigation at the Morgan Hill department shows that officers at the LaRocca Place scene thought two women they arrested later that night were “very intoxicated” as they tried to enter a patrol car.

Members of the Gilroy Police Department Anti-Crime Team, along with members of the United Narcotic Enforcement Team (UNET), carried out a search warrant at 7:05 a.m. this morning in the 6700 block of Church Street in Gilroy. 

For the second time in one month, the plea hearing for Gilroyan Stacy Lonnberg was delayed Thursday afternoon and continued to sometime in March.