Morgan Hill – Seven vehicles were stolen from Morgan Hill and Gilroy between Friday and Saturday, according to Morgan Hill Police Cpl. Ray Ramos, and a vehicle stolen Nov. 5 was recovered on Friday.
Officers recovered the vehicle at approximately 11:15am when a resident of Berry Court reported two young girls were banging on her door and throwing rocks at the window. The girls, she told police, took the screen off a window of her apartment and were trying to open the window. She said she knew the girls were Britton Middle School students but did not know their names.
Officers arrived as the girls were leaving and discovered the car was stolen Nov. 5 from a parking lot on East Third Street.
The vehicles were stolen from areas in Morgan Hill and Gilroy and in the surrounding county, according to police.
Ramos was on patrol Saturday morning, he said, cruising areas he thought he thought the vehicles might have been taken from, and while in the parking lot of the Holiday Motel on Monterey Road, he saw a female look at him as if she did not want to be seen by him. She went into one of the motel rooms, and while Ramos was in the office finding out who she was, she apparently snuck into another room.
Ramos discovered Sandra Mungaray-Ganzler, 40, of Morgan Hill, was wanted on three felony warrants. As Ramos was cuffing her, she allegedly tried to fight him and eventually bit him. He put her in a wrap restraint, and she was transported to Santa Clara County Jail for alleged assault on an officer, resisting arrest and three outstanding felony warrants, including one for auto theft and one for forgery.
Ramos said though the bite did not break the skin on his hand, he did have an open wound in the area of the bite, and so he received medical treatment.
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