Crime

An early evening three alarm fire at an electronic recycling center filled south Gilroy skies with smoke Saturday evening and had fire officials call residents to keep them in their homes because of possible hazardous chemicals in the air. 

A Morgan Hill gym owner accused of sexually assaulting five females was released from custody on $100,000 bail following his April 11 arrest, according to authorities.

March 20

ORIGINAL PRESS RELEASE from Gilroy Police:

March 9:

Gilroy Police are investigating an incident in the 7100 block of Rosanna Street when officers were contacted by a nearby resident, who advised that a gunshot victim had just shown up at their residence at 9:47 a.m.

Fresno Sheriff's deputies are looking for information about Vidal Zepeda, 39, who was found dead in a drainage ditch.

Gilroy Police are investigating the death of an 87-year-old woman who was struck by a 30-year-old man in a Mercedes on the 800 block of 5th Street Tuesday at 9:20 p.m.

UPDATE: 

While her victims and the district attorney said they hoped she would get more time, Santa Clara Superior Court Judge Edward Lee sentenced Leticia Gonzalez Sandoval to six years in prison for defrauding locals--many of them hard working immigrants-- of more than $400,000.