Gilroy Mayor Roland Velasco: Visions of Garlic Festival terror linger
Gilroy Mayor, Roland Velasco, arrived at the Gilroy Garlic Festival in the early evening of July 28 to help Chamber of Commerce volunteers tear down their remaining booths. He was standing by the beer garden at the middle of Christmas Hill Park when he...
Police blotter: Man, 32, arrested for alleged attempted carjacking
Enrique Leyva, 32, of the 400 block of Fairview Drive, 1:43 a.m.
The ‘Eye in the Sky’ Sees It All
The first thing you notice when you are in the eye-in-the-sky at one of Gilroy’s busiest department stores are the shoes people are wearing when they walk in.
Body found in Christmas tree lot, police suspicious
A body was found lying face up in a puddle of water at a
Arrest on Third Street puts El Roble Elementary School on lockdown
El Roble Elementary School was put on lockdown when police arrested a man on 3rd Street who barricaded himself into a home. Robert Candelaria eventually surrendered to police and was arrested for a parole violation.At 11:20 a.m. GPD got word that Candelaria, 29, was at a home on the 1000 block of Third Street. Officers surrounded the home, with guns drawn and after 45 minutes of non-compliance, Candelaria surrendered and was arrested.At approximately 12:30 p.m. El Roble was notified by GPD of the nearby incident. All doors were shut and locked, window shades were drawn and nobody was allowed in, or out of the school. Officials from Gilroy Unified School District informed all bus drivers and maintenance staff of the lockdown. After police cleared the scene, students were released without incident.
Anti-religious graffiti sickens parish staff
A vandal or vandals spray painted anti-Catholic markings over
