Crime

A Hollister man found guilty in 2008 for cultivating marijuana

Evidence collectors help figure out the who, how and when of

It’s been an interesting week for Gilroy crime. Besides the usual business of robberies, burglaries and assaults, police responded to a handful of incidents including a man roaming around Gilroy exposing himself to women, and reports of the levee on Lewis Street being set on fire. Here are a few of those events:

Victor Bettencourt, 20, of the 7300 block of Maple Street, 6:07

Here's your weekly digest of criminal happenings in Gilroy, including a vehicle theft, child abuse, assault, sale and transportation of narcotics and an auto burglary.

A 52-year-old female driver lost control of her car, crashed into an embankment on Hecker Pass Highway near Sprig Lake and immediately exited her 1998 Dodge Stratus that moments later burst into flames.

A Monterey Road on-ramp entrance to southbound Highway 101