About 3:15 p.m. Thursday, a 16-year-old male was walking near
Eigleberry and 10th streets with his girlfriend when five females
started yelling at the couple for allegedly being Sure
&
amp;#241o gang members. The couple ignored the shouts and walked
on, but one of the females then called someone on her cell phone to
report the unwanted couple’s apparent intrusion.
Gangs pick fights with kids walking home from school
About 3:15 p.m. Thursday, a 16-year-old male was walking near Eigleberry and 10th streets with his girlfriend when five females started yelling at the couple for allegedly being Sureño gang members. The couple ignored the shouts and walked on, but one of the females then called someone on her cell phone to report the unwanted couple’s apparent intrusion.
Moments later, an adult male approached the couple and asked if they were gang members. They both denied involvement in gangs and attempted to walk away again, but the suspect spun the male juvenile around and punched him, police said.
The couple then ran away to a nearby house and drove to Saint Louise Hospital for treatment. An employee at the hospital reported the incident to police.
About 3:45 p.m. the same day, a 13-year-old male was walking home from Community Day School along IOOF Avenue when four juvenile males approached him and attacked him with their fists and feet and threw rocks from nearby railroad tracks. The victim, who sustained injuries, did not appear to be a gang member, police said.
About 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, two known Norteño gang members assaulted a 16-year-old male from Gilroy near Monterey and Sixth streets as he walked home from school, police said. Police know the suspects but are still investigating the crime, Sgt. Jim Gillio said.
Before the fight – which did not involve weapons – the suspects approached the victim and asked if he was a gang member, to which he replied no. The assailants then yelled gang-related slogans before punching the victim in the head and face, police said.
The victim managed to escape the attack and ran to the police station three blocks away to report the incident. He did not sustain any major injuries.
Two days prior, about 3:15 p.m. Aug. 24, two juvenile females and two juvenile males suspected of being Norteño gang members attacked a 13-year-old male near Church and 10th street for an unknown reason.
The lone victim sustained significant bruising and swelling, but no major injuries, Gillio said. He did not appear to be a rival gang member, police said.
No weapons were used during the attack that began when the two females pushed the victim and then left the punching and kicking to their male associates, police said.
There were also four fights during lunch at Gilroy High School Monday.
Vandalism or misplaced pep?
It only took four days for someone to vandalize the pristine Christopher High School, but it appears the young vandal may have been exhibiting some errant school spirit.
About 1:25 p.m. Aug. 25, the fourth day after the new high school opened, police arrested a 14-year-old male student after a staff member noticed him drawing “a lion” with a Sharpie marker on one of the school hallway’s new wooden panels, causing $2,000 worth of damage, according to police. Christopher High’s mascot is a cougar, also known as a mountain lion.
Couple nabbed with drugs, scales, $2,000
About 3 p.m. Saturday, police arrested Gilroy residents Luis Sanchez, 23, and Ashley Morrow, 19, on drug charges after a brief, low-speed pursuit.
An officer on routine patrol noticed Sanchez, who was on parole, nearly strike another car with his silver 2001 Mazda 626 near Church and Fourth streets. Sanchez did not immediately pull over after the officer sounded his siren but ended up stopping near Lewis and Fourth streets.
Upon searching the vehicle, police discovered nearly 10 grams of crystal meth, less than 2 grams of marijuana, three scales, two cell phones, a pay-owe sheet and more than $2,000 in cash, police said.
Alleged shoe thief chased down
About 3:20 p.m. Monday, Aug. 24, an officer responded to a report of theft from Burlington Coat Factory on Chestnut Street near Highway 152 and U.S. 101. An arriving police officer observed Marvin Warren, 52, bicycling furiously through the intersection of Chestnut Street and 10th Street with a man chasing behind him on foot.
Driving a squad car, the officer pursued Warren, of San Jose, into a nearby parking lot but lost him briefly before police set up a perimeter and eventually contacted the suspect without incident near Alexander and 10th streets.
Police arrested Warren for evading police and petty theft with priors, a felony offense. It turns out Warren had just stolen two pairs of shoes from Burlington Coat Factory, and the man chasing him was an employee there.
Warren was also arrested in April and June for driving with a suspended license.
Thieves clean out apartment laundry rooms
About 2 p.m. Monday, Aug. 24, two unknown suspects pried open the coin box of a washer in the laundry room of an apartment building along the 500 block of Fairview Drive in south Gilroy. One of the suspects, whom witnesses saw leaving the area, cut his hand during the burglary, according to police.
A similar coin theft occurred at the building next door the day before.
Then, about 8 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 27, an unknown number of suspects caused $2,400 worth of damage to two commercial dryers after prying off the coin boxes atop the machines that sat in next door apartment buildings off Juniper Drive.
