Crime

Embezzlement In April on East 10th Street, an employee was arrested for embezzlement and conducting fake returns. Burglary On May 13 a business on Monterey Street was burglarized when thieves cut a side gate and smashed a glass door. A $2,200 gas-powered paint sprayer was taken. Attempted Burglary On...

Two boxes of shoes were robbed at gunpoint at the Gilroy Premium Outlets, and the suspects got away, Gilroy police said. On May 9, 2018, at about 2 pm, officers responded to the Bostonian Clarks outlet store, located at 8325 Arroyo Circle, in Gilroy, for...

Two children were injured after a suspected drunk driver crashed his speeding SUV into a school bus in north Gilroy May 3, according to authorities. About 3:20pm, California Highway Patrol received a call reporting a collision with an ambulance responding on Monterey Road, north of...

Gilroy Police Chief Scot Smithee acknowledged he didn’t follow the state law or his own department’s policy when he left his service handgun in his personal truck just before the vehicle was stolen in Modesto April 27. Shortly after the theft, the city’s top law...

Gilroy Police Chief Scot Smithee, a 30-year-plus law enforcement veteran, found himself the victim of a crime when someone stole his personal vehicle April 27, according to police. The chief’s service firearm and badge, among other personal items, were inside the vehicle when it disappeared,...

Federal and regional authorities last week arrested a suspect who has been on the run since he killed a victim in Gilroy in November 2017, according to police. On April 19, agents from the the Bay Area OCS-Fugitive Apprehension Team and U.S. Marshals Service were...

A student armed with a kitchen knife at Gilroy High School prompted an evacuation and standoff with police. On Friday, April 27, Gilroy Police responded to a report that a student was brandishing a knife inside a classroom, according to a Facebook post by the...

Gilroy Police Chief Scot Smithee, a 30-year-plus law enforcement veteran, found himself the victim of a crime when someone stole his personal vehicle April 27, according to police. The chief’s service firearm and badge, among other personal items, were inside the vehicle when it disappeared,...

Nearly two months after the death of Steven Juarez in police custody, friends and family of the Gilroyan are not giving up in their effort to demand answers from City Hall and its police department. Specifically, Juarez’ family—consisting of several generations of Gilroy residents—wants to...

California Highway Patrol officers last week issued four citations for motorists who failed to stop for school buses in an enforcement operation in unincorporated Gilroy. Authorities said they also issued one verbal warning, and educated an “untold” number of motorists, parents and students on the...