Crime

Gilroy Police are investigating the first homicide of 2017. Here's their press release: On November 29, 2017, at 4:34 p.m., officers from the Gilroy Police Department responded to a report of a shooting on the 7500 block of Alexander Street. When officers arrived, they located...

Gilroy police and a county computer investigating team found two additional skimmers on gas pumps at the Chevron Gas Station, located at 7999 Westwood Drive in Gilroy. Chevron and Valero gas stations are cooperating with investigators as they search for the approximate dates these skimmers...

The Gilroy Police Department has been inundated with credit card fraud cases over the weekend. During the investigation of these cases, it was learned the majority of victims used their credit/ATM cards at the Valero gas station, located at 1190 First Street, in...

Youth crime in Gilroy has dropped almost 50 percent over the past three years, after an intensive school program funded by a $500,000 a year grant, according to a report by the South County Youth Task Force. Arrests of youths aged 11-–19 in Gilroy have...

A Morgan Hill Police Officer who lives in Gilroy, Todd Davis, quickly applied his training and a donated portable resuscitation device to save an elderly resident’s life earlier this month, according to authorities. Davis was on patrol Oct. 4 when a call from the emergency...

The Gilroy Police department will spend $32,000 next summer to keep two officers patrolling downtown Friday and Saturday nights from 6pm to 10pm after the reported success of a pilot program this year. Saying that keeping the downtown safe is a priority, the City Council...

The County of Santa Clara Public Health Department is advising residents to take precautions due to the visible smoke in the air. The current situation is a result of very unhealthy air quality from the wildfires in the North Bay and is causing unprecedented levels of air pollution throughout the Bay Area.

Former San Benito School Superintendent John Perales, was sentenced to two years of court probation last week for brandishing a gun at a person in a car parked outside his Gilroy house in October, 2016.

On Saturday, October 7, 2017, a Gilroy High School student posted a photo of a rifle and ammunition on “Snapchat.” The photo contained the text, “No one show up to school on Monday.” The posting was reported to the Gilroy Police Department.

On October 2, 2017, just after 8:00 a.m., a group of students walked by a parked car near El Roble Elementary School, located at 930 Third Street. As they walked by, one of the students looked inside the car and saw a male exposing his genitalia. The students kept walking and no further interaction took place. The incident was not reported until a later time.