Crime

The controversy from Cinco de Mayo 2010 at Live Oak High School

Gilroyans were victims of a hoax alleging that gang violence,

Heather Carroll, the Hollister woman whose body was discovered after a standoff in a Cerra Vista Drive home, died of strangulation and blunt force trauma, according to the Hollister Police Department.

Rafael Betancourt, 22, of the 8200 block of Forest Street, 1:58

Santa Clara County supervisors —and the public—on Dec. 12 got their first public explanation from county officials on the explosive revelations a week earlier that county-run hospitals had for at least a year illegally dumped medical waste, drugs and patient data into dumpsters. Healthcare officials...

Crime briefs are taken from the weekly press report sent out by the Gilroy Police Department. Officers recently dealt with juvenile debauchery, piracy and a stolen prosthetic limb worth $30,000.

Joey Hernandez, 20, of the 7900 block of Hanna Street, 2:30 p.m.

Osvaldo Calderon, 28, transient, 6:49 p.m. Saturday, at Monterey