Crime

A thief or thieves struck a series of Morgan Hill vehicles overnight Monday, stealing parts they likely intended to turn in for their recycling value, police said.

Police have arrested six suspects in connection with the January 2007 beating homicide of a 39-year-old Hollister man on Park Hill and have alleged it was carried out in retaliation against the victim for acting as a witness to another crime.

A Gilroy woman in custody on murder charges after allegedly driving drunk and causing a Jan. 14 car accident that killed her husband and daughter did not enter a plea Thursday, but she will appear in court again later this month, according to the Santa Clara County District Attorney's Office.

FBI agents and Gilroy Police Department officers raided a home on the 200 block of Lewis Street Thursday morning and arrested a 42-year-old man, police said.

A suspected Norteno gang member who escaped murder charges last summer after prosecutors dropped their pursuit of a controversial legal doctrine has been arrested again - this time on warrants for carrying a concealed knife and possession of a controlled substance, police said.

Gilroy police arrests Jan. 23 through Jan. 30, 2012.

Burglary suspect Jose Torres, 21 of Morgan Hill, surrendered to authorities after police issued a warrant for his arrest last week.

One of two suspects in the suspected Christmas theft of copper wire from a Hollister Pacific Gas & Electric facility has a jury trial scheduled for late February.

A veteran San Jose police officer from Gilroy charged in August with unlawful sexual contact with two teen boys won't know his trial start date for at least another month, according to the Santa Clara County District Attorney's Office.

South County residents wary of smoke rising into the Friday afternoon sky shouldn't panic, according to CalFire.