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Local police, DA to host gun buyback Dec. 14
The Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office will partner with the Gilroy and Morgan Hill police departments to sponsor a $50,000 gun buyback in the South Bay Dec. 14.
Sexual assaults on the rise in Santa Clara County
Incidents of rape and sexual assault have risen in Santa Clara County over the last year, and experts think the increase is at least partially related to victims’ growing willingness to report the crimes.
Sheriffs hunt for accused rapist
Prosecutors changed their minds this week and obtained the warrant to arrest Bobian.
Turn the wheels of justice
It’s been a year since Antolin Garcia Torres, 22 of Morgan Hill, was arrested and charged with the kidnap and murder of 15-year-old Sierra LaMar.
UPDATED: Guerrero arrested on gun charges at New York airport
The pride of Gilroy, current interim WBC welterweight champion boxer Robert “The Ghost” Guerrero, 30, was packing more than a powerful punch Thursday morning when he was arrested at New York’s John F. Kennedy Airport and charged with illegally traveling with an unloaded pistol and three unloaded high-capacity bullet magazines.
Alleged landscape scammer’s plea continued
The plea hearing for the man who allegedly charmed multiple South County seniors into giving him money for landscaping services he never completed was continued to Nov. 1, due the public defender declaring a conflict in the case.
Alleged landscape scammer to enter a plea
The man who allegedly charmed multiple South County seniors into giving him money for landscaping services he never completed is scheduled to enter a plea in court this Thursday.
Suspect ID’d in Sobrato apartment murder
The suspect in the July 22 murder of a 21-year-old man at the Sobrato Transitional Apartments on Monterey Street is “actively avoiding” police contact — and because police have not obtained the handgun used in the shooting, he is considered armed and dangerous.
DA presses charges against landscape scammer
The alleged landscape scammer of South County was arrested once before in Gilroy - at a time when police couldn’t tie him to more than a dozen accusations of theft - but this time police finally nabbed him on warrants for 13 counts of petty theft and eight counts of misdemeanor elder fraud.
DA presses charges against landscape scammer
Nearly one month after the District Attorney launched an investigation the man that roams around South County, charming seniors into giving him money for jobs he never completes, the ialleged “landscape scammer” was arrested July 21 in Gilroy for 13 counts of petty theft and eight counts of misdemeanor elder fraud.
