Police blotter: Robbery, assault with a deadly weapon, embezzlement
The Gilroy Police Department recently responded to a variety of crimes this week, including robbery, assault with a deadly weapon and embezzlement. Arrests were recorded in the GPD blotter April 22 through 28. All suspects are innocent until proven guilty.
Crime briefs: Leisurely bike ride, beer run
Easy rider: It's unclear where she was going, but 45-year-old Marcy Elizabeth Meagher decided she needed some wheels to get there. Unfortunately, her plan to allegedly liberate a Schwinn bicycle valued at $169 by simply taking it past the registers at a store on Camino Arroyo at 2:57 p.m. July 12 without paying for it was punctured by eagle-eyed employees. After Gilroy Police Department officers arrived, it was discovered that Meagher had also helped herself to a plastic spray bottle worth 92 cents.
False bomb threat brings police to Gilroy High
A man made a prank phone call to Gilroy High School claiming he
Salinas man, 26, dies in Gilroy motorcycle crash
William Harmon, 26, died Monday on Highway 101 after his motorcycle hit a delivery truck around 4 p.m., just before the exit for Highway 25.
Men drive car full of stolen electronics wrong way on 101, crash into tree
Two men who fled from police by driving the wrong way down U.S.
Customers cry swindle
GILROY—A Gilroy woman has been accused of pocketing money from customers who trusted her to wire it to family in Mexico—and police say she has admitted using the money to run her flower shop.Â
