Crime

Santa Clara County Supervisor Joe Simitian asked his colleagues to sincerely reflect and answer this question: “Does our board believe it can have confidence in the administration of the sheriff's department by current incumbent Sheriff Laurie Smith?” The answer, through an unanimous vote by the...

A student armed with a kitchen knife at Gilroy High School prompted an evacuation and standoff with police. On Friday, April 27, Gilroy Police responded to a report that a student was brandishing a knife inside a classroom, according to a Facebook post by the...

On Friday at 4:26 pm, officers from the Gilroy Police Department responded to a report of an armed robbery at the Pizza Hut, located on the 1100 block of First Street. As an employee was putting money into the business safe, a man entered...

Former Gilroy resident Aaron Carlon was sentenced to five and a half years in prison on Monday, Dec. 9 after he pleaded guilty in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California San Jose Division to one of two felony counts of child pornography.

The body of the man who was found in a rural area of San Benito

One of the country’s best-known crime fighters and victims’ advocates hopes to find Sierra LaMar by bringing prolonged national attention to the teen who remains missing after six weeks.

Santino William Legan, the 19-year-old Garlic Festival killer, was one of four brothers in a well-known Gilroy family who grew up in a neighborhood near Christmas Hill Park, scene of the July 28 mass shooting that left three dead and 13 injured. He graduated...

Lisa Faria was turning the corner at the Gilroy Garlic Festival’s “Gourmet Alley” with Gilroy Chamber of Commerce colleague Michelle Campbell when she heard shots fired. “I made a comment about what idiot would bring firecrackers to a garlic festival or something like that,” Faria...