Crime

July 26 • A drunk in public call was made on the 200 block of East Tenth Street at 1am. • A business was burglarized on the 600 block of Leavesley Road. • A vehicle was stolen on the 9100 block of Avezan Way and 8100 block...

July 19 • Assault was reported on the 500 block of East Seventh Street at 2am. • Someone stole a vehicle on the 6600 block of Automall Parkway. • A hit-and-run collision occurred on East Tenth Street and Automall Parkway. • Petty theft was reported on the 900...

Police released the name and photo of a man who allegedly shot and killed Gilroy native Tatyanna Mariah Lopez and her unborn child in an April incident in Merced. The Merced Police Department on July 16 posted on Facebook that officers are looking for Jonathan...

The number of fires sparked by illegal fireworks may have been down this year, but the calls from residents to police nearly doubled on the Fourth of July, city officials reported July 12. According to a press release from the City of Gilroy, the Gilroy...

A Gilroy insurance agent was found guilty of 20 counts of sexual assault in Santa Clara County Superior Court last week. Following a jury trial, Jeffrey Guenther, 38, was convicted of 10 counts of oral copulation by duress and 10 counts of sodomy by duress,...

July 5 • Petty theft was reported on the 6900 block of Automall Parkway at 11am. • Police responded to a report of an assault on the 5900 block of Travel Park Circle at 1pm. July 6 • A vehicle was stolen on the 6100 block of Monterey...

An 8-year-old boy is in stable condition after being shot by a family member in what police are calling an accident. According to Gilroy Police, on July 6 at about 6:30pm, Antonio Michael Rodriguez III, 30, was reportedly “manipulating a firearm” inside a home in...

The owner of a Gilroy jewelry store shot and killed his brother during an altercation between the two men inside the business on June 24, according to a report by a Gilroy Police detective. The suspect’s attorney, however, said he was acting in self-defense to...

2020 wasn't just about one deadly virus for some. Across California, Asian Americans and other minority groups also faced an epidemic of hate, as revealed by the state's Department of Justice in a specialized report Wednesday.  Attorney General Rob Bonta presented a report on anti-Asian...

Charles Kenneth Lafferty, the man who pleaded guilty to shooting marbles at dozens of motorists on Highways 156 and 101 for more than a year, was sentenced to 15 years in prison on June 29, Monterey County District Attorney Jeannine M. Pacioni announced. In April,...