Police: Drive sober this holiday season or get arrested
The Gilroy Police Department will be cracking down on drunk drivers this holiday season as a way to combat a nationwide increase in alcohol-related fatalities on the roadways. Locally, the GPD will have a DUI/drivers license checkpoint somewhere within city limits on Dec. 12 and six additional DUI patrols will be roving the Garlic Capital.
Gun tragedy takes life of police officer’s child
A 3-year-old Gilroy boy – the son of a San Jose Police officer and a Gilroy High graduate who many described as a “fine young man” – died from a gunshot wound Thursday evening, according to the Gilroy Police Department.
San Benito High School District refuses to divulge food worker’s pay status
San Benito High School District Superintendent Stan Rose has
Murder suspect to submit a plea Jan. 13
A man suspected of stabbing a 74-year-old Gilroy woman to death is scheduled to submit a plea Jan. 13, after he turned himself in earlier this month.
Jewelry store robbed in broad daylight
Police are investigating an armed robbery at a Morgan Hill jewelry store.
Files: ‘Cold’ DUI murder case
Stacy Lonnberg said she slept for five hours, drank a Bloody Mary and popped an oxycodone on an empty stomach Jan. 14 before getting behind the wheel of her family’s Toyota Tacoma pickup. Less than an hour later, the allegedly drunken 51-year-old Gilroy woman zipped to speeds 20 mph above posted limits, sideswiped another vehicle while trying to change lanes and rolled her pickup on Highway 85 in Los Gatos, killing her husband and daughter, according to court documents obtained by the Dispatch.
Defendant in murder case to stand trial
After multiple delays, the trial of a Gilroy man facing murder
