Crime

Domestic Abuse

Members of the Gilroy Police Department Anti-Crime Team, along with members of the United Narcotic Enforcement Team (UNET), carried out a search warrant at 7:05 a.m. this morning in the 6700 block of Church Street in Gilroy. 

The former executive director of the Morgan Hill Downtown Association pleaded guilty Thursday to charges that he embezzled funds from the nonprofit organization while he was employed there.

Police arrested a Vallejo woman who fled through multiple cities after she allegedly stole from a victim in Hollister and tried to kill him as she drove away, according to authorities.  About 6:40pm March 18, Hollister Police responded to a report of a woman driving...

GILROY—The parents of Audrie Pott, a 15-year-old Saratoga girl who took her own life in 2012 after three teen boys sexually assaulted and humiliated her reached a settlement Friday in a wrongful death suit against the defendants’ families.

Gilroyan Cesar Villagrana, 36, the Hells Angel member who was

Gilroy resident and former longtime prosecutor Stephen Lowney was recently sworn in as one of Santa Clara County Superior Court’s newly appointed judges.  An Aug. 18 oath of office ceremony “symbolically recognizes Judge Lowney’s long-standing dedication to the field of law and his exceptional legal...

Santa Clara County Wildlife Officer Laura Decker was named 2023 Wildlife Officer of the Year, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife announced this week. Decker, who is currently based in the CDFW Gilroy office, began her career with CDFW in 2018. In her short...

For the first time since Gilroy police busted up an alleged prostitution ring in January involving a 13-year-old girl, the victim has testified against the man the Santa Clara County District Attorney's Office says "lured" her into having sex for money with different men in Salinas and Seaside motels.