Crime

For nearly 40 years a killer has walked free, a family has been

Commercial burglary

Nearly 700 people from the South Bay and South Santa Clara Valley areas, and even a few from outside the state, trekked to Morgan Hill to volunteer their time in the search for missing teen Sierra LaMar, as police announced Tuesday their investigation has ruled out the possibility that she ran away on her own. 

Hollister police arrested a man when they allege he barricaded

A middle-aged Morgan Hill man was assaulted early Tuesday

A known gang member and parolee was stabbed by multiple men in a

The Gilroy Police Department responded to a variety of crimes this week, including murder, false imprisonment, possession of a controlled substance for sale, burglary and causing or permitting a child to suffer. Arrests were recorded in this week's GPD blotter from Feb. 6 through 13.

Morgan Hill police arrested a former Safeway employee and his accomplice after the pair allegedly stole about $20,000 cash from the grocery store’s safe early Thursday morning. Just past midnight Aug. 22, Mario Bellinghausen, 22 of Santa Nella, entered the store wearing a surgical mask to hide his identity, according to a press release from Morgan Hill Police. As a former Safeway employee, Bellinghausen was entrusted with the code to the store’s safe. He even spoke to his former manager at the store just before the heist. Bellinghausen stole more than $20,000 from the store's safe and was seen running out of the store to get away in his car, police said. Later that day, officers located Bellinghausen with half of the stolen cash, police said. Then on Aug. 24, police identified and arrested Yesmith Sandoval, 22 of Los Banos, at a pizza parlor in Los Banos, police said. She had the remaining loot from the burglary, minus a share used by Bellinghausen to bail out of jail. Both were booked into Santa Clara County Jail on suspicion of conspiracy and burglary, police said.Police think the pair orchestrated the burglary as a retaliation to Safeway for terminating Bellinghausen’s employment at the store. Detectives recovered “nearly all” of the cash stolen from Safeway, police said. Anyone with information about this case can contact Morgan Hill Police at (408) 779-2101. 

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Four juveniles and one adult were transported to the hospital with what Gilroy police described as minor injuries after a two-vehicle crash at the intersection of Day Road and Santa Teresa Boulevard about 3:40 p.m. Friday. Traffic was partially blocked until tow trucks arrived and removed both vehicles involved, and the road was cleared by 4:30 p.m.