Crime

This past week, Gilroy Police responded to several cases of methanphetamines, both influence and possesion, home burglaries, and someone trying to shoplift coats. Here are a few noteworthy incidents.

The Gilroy Police Department responded to a variety of crimes this week including continuous sexual abuse of a minor child, possession of a controlled substance for sale, burglary, assault with a deadly weapon and driving under the influence. Arrests were recorded in this week's GPD blotter from Nov. 4 through 11.

Police have arrested MediLeaf co-founder Goyoko "Batzi" Kuburovich in connection with a multi-million dollar embezzlement “scandal” – however the charges are a separate can of worms from Kuburovich’s harried past concerning alleged illegal cannabis sales and money laundering.

About a month after police launched an investigation of the man who roams around door-to-door in Santa Clara County, looking for victims who will pay him upfront for landscaping services he doesn’t complete, police arrested the alleged “landscape scammer” Monday night in Gilroy.

Authorities arrested three people—including a Morgan Hill man—for running a “sophisticated” ghost gun manufacturing enterprise that sold illegal firearms to criminals, according to the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office. Joseph Cahoon, 31, of Morgan Hill, Jack Mahon, 38, of San Jose, and Amanda Bazzani,...

An adult white male committed suicide on Santa Clara County

Two of the five suspects accused of killing Morgan Hill teen Tara Romero in a Nov. 4, 2011 drive-by shooting were scheduled to stand trial starting this week, but the prosecutor in the case thinks October could be the earliest date they will face a jury.

South County's "landscape scammer" appeared in court April 4 for a sentencing that ended up being postponed, but in the meantime, he'll be locked up.

GILROY—A federal appeals court ruled this week that a Santa Clara County judge made "egregious misstatements" while arguing the people’s case as prosecuting deputy district attorney in the 2001 murder of a man in Gilroy.

GILROY—More than a year after he was accused of luring a 13-year-old girl into prostitution, a Gilroy man has pleaded guilty to three felony sex crimes as part of a deal with prosecutors that will put him behind bars for 11 years.