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March 21, 2026

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.

Cops catch bike-riding wire thief

Police on Wednesday arrested man after he allegedly tried to steal wires from city streetlights, according to the Gilroy Police Department.

Captured fugitive served 11 years for stabbing common-law wife in the heart

A fugitive recently captured after a two day manhunt is no

Police blotter: Transient, 44, picked up for allegedly having a dangerous weapon

Juventino Verduzco, 44, transient, 6:48 p.m. Tuesday, at Third

Police arrest 16-year-old boy for Gateway arson

Police arrested a former Gateway School student suspected of

Police blotter, March 1-7, 2021: Burglary, ‘malicious mischief’

March 1 • Police responded to a sexual offense report on the 9500 block of Rancho Hills Drive at 1am. • A vehicle was stolen on the 4300 block of Monterey Road. • A vehicle collision resulting in injury occurred on the 8100 block of Murray Avenue...

Runaway girl lured into prostitution

A Gilroy man accused of luring a 13-year-old runaway girl into a life of “turning tricks” was more agitated Tuesday by a judge's mispronunciation of his name, rather than a slew of felony charges that include pimping, committing lewd acts with a child and human trafficking.

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