Burglar chased down in citizen’s arrest Sunday
Alexander Chavez, a 19-year-old Hispanic male from Gilroy, was booked into the Santa Clara County jail this weekend for an alleged residential burglary after two bystanders detained him in a citizen's arrest following a foot/car chase near the intersection of Fourth and Princevalle...
6-hour standoff ends in capture
A six-hour stalemate turned a Gilroy neighborhood into a scene of blaring megaphones and flashing police lights Wednesday night, as officers used a SWAT team, bomb squad robot and hostage negotiators to coax out an armed, wanted parolee holed up in the attic belonging to a family he barely knew.
GPD arrests 31 in early morning gang sweep
For the second time in almost two months, the Gilroy Police Department partnered with county, state and federal law enforcement agencies in a citywide sweep early Thursday morning, this time targeting more than two-dozen known gang members and their associates for "violent and reckless criminal activity," police said.
Gartman agrees to reduced charge in parade theft case
Former Gilroy City Councilman Craig Gartman, charged in May for felony grand theft of thousands of dollars from a private Memorial Day parade fund, pleaded no contest Thursday to a reduced misdemeanor, bringing an end to a bitter saga that lasted nearly two-and-a-half years.
