Chief violated state law on gun storage
Gilroy Police Chief Scot Smithee acknowledged he didn’t follow the state law or his own department’s policy when he left his service handgun in his personal truck just before the vehicle was stolen in Modesto April 27.
Shortly after the theft, the city’s top law...
SBHS senior to compete for Miss California Teen USA
Jazmine Parra and a friend were on their way to San Benito High School cheer practice one day last spring when her mother called and gave her the news – representatives for the Miss California Teen USA pageant wanted to meet her in Los Angeles to possibly get into the 2012 competition.
Samuel Crocco
Samuel S. Crocco, 81, of Gilroy, CA, died peacefully at his residence on March 20, 2009. He was born March 20, 1928, in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, and is the son of the late Frank and Angelina Crocco. At a young age in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, Samuel became a cement finisher and bricklayer. After 45 years in his craft he retired from the Bricklayers Local 3 in CA. He was an avid fisherman and hunter, and was a member of the Gilroy Elks Lodge and Gilroy Garlic Roamers RV Club for many years.
