Traffic briefly disturbed at corner of 10th and Monterey for
high-risk stop
GILROY
Local police officers and sheriff’s deputies helped a regional narcotics team make a high-risk vehicle stop at the corner of 10th and Monterey streets Friday morning after a routine parole check went awry, according to law enforcement agents.
Police detained two individuals, including Angel Aguero, the parolee, for possession of meth and paraphernalia after Aguero went into an alley near Seventh and Hanna streets and drove off when agents showed up at his home, according to Mark Colla, task force commander of the region’s Unified Narcotics Enforcement Team. UNET is a part of the California Department of Justice Bureau of Narcotic Enforcement and is comprised of agents from local law enforcement departments who work in south Santa Clara County and northern San Benito County.
“As we were approaching his address, he left, and as we tried stopping him, he went down an alley,” said Colla in a message, adding that a nearby gardener saw Aguero carrying something that turned out to be a hammer. “We weren’t quite sure what we had, so we ended up having (the Gilroy Police Department) stop him.”
GPD executed the stop outside a furniture store at the corner of Tenth and Monterey streets across from the Chevron gas station. GPD Sgt. John Sheedy would not say whether officers found any weapons. Five GPD marked units responded to the call, including the one that made the initial stop, Sheedy said, and officers briefly cut off traffic to prevent fleeing “or anything else that could have gone bad.”
