$60,000 grant awarded to diabetes coalition
The Health Trust has awarded a $60,000 Health Partnership Grant
Police blotter: Dog attacks, kills ducks
A dog owned by a resident on the 15100 block of Venetian Way was
UPDATED: Police arrest three on suspicion of robbery, shooting
Three masked men entered the northeast Morgan Hill home of a 62-year-old man the afternoon of Dec. 19—across the street from an elementary school—robbed the resident and shot him with a handgun before fleeing the area in a Hyundai Elantra, according to police.Morgan Hill Police officers caught up with the suspects’ vehicle and arrested them shortly after the shooting. MHPD Capt. Shane Palsgrove said the incident was “not random” as the suspects knew the victim, and police records show a history of calls for service at the residence in recent months—including the Oct. 18 arrest of a subject on a felony warrant.About 12:15pm Dec. 19, MHPD officers responded to reports of a shooting at a residence on the 17000 block of Calle Mazatan, according to authorities. The initial caller, the resident of the home, told police on the phone that someone was coming to shoot him.Officers were on their way to the home, which is across the street from El Toro Elementary School’s campus, when they received another call from a witness who reported a victim had been shot, Palsgrove said.When officers arrived at the home, the witness was inside helping the shooting victim downstairs. Officers provided first aid and the victim was transported to a nearby hospital with non-life threatening injuries. The man was shot once in the chest, police said.While responding, police also heard from a witness that three people were seen running out of the home, into a vehicle, with their faces covered with bandanas, Palsgrove said.With a description of the vehicle—a red Hyundai Elantra—officers shortly made a felony traffic stop on the suspicious car on U.S. 101 southbound, and arrested the three occupants without further incident in relation to the brazen home invasion, according to police. Recovered inside the vehicle was a handgun.Police later identified the detained suspects as Armando Hernandez, 20, of Morgan Hill; Alex Griego, 21, of Morgan Hill; and Justin Heppler, 25, of San Jose. All three were booked on suspicion of attempted homicide, robbery and burglary.Police declined to say how the suspects knew the victim.The campus at El Toro Elementary was briefly locked down before the suspects were arrested, and the traffic stop resulted in traffic closures on the southbound side of U.S. 101.While some MHPD officers were detaining the three suspects, others remained at the home on Calle Mazatan placing crime scene tape around the property and canvassing the area for evidence and witnesses. Officers were seen going in and out of the home.History of police callsSince July, MHPD has responded to the Calle Mazatan home eight times on a variety of calls, including the Dec. 19 shooting, according to police records. Most of these calls were recorded as “disturbances” involving disagreements among two or more people.On Oct. 18, police visited the home to serve an arrest warrant out of the Gilroy Police Department for a 30-year-old man, on a $100,000 warrant for robbery and theft.In a Dec. 18 “miscellaneous call,” the day before Tuesday’s shooting, someone called police to report that another subject with a warrant was hiding out inside the residence. The caller also told police that prostitution was occurring at the home.Police again responded to the home July 22, Nov. 24 and Dec. 16 on separate disturbance calls; Oct. 27 on a report of “suspicious circumstances;” Sept. 29 for a parking citation; and July 22 for another disturbance, according to police records.
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Coyote Valley wildlife corridor
As humankind has expanded its reach, wildlife and the natural world have retreated. Only recently have we realized our power to exhaust the resources of a world we once thought limitless. What we had previously struggled to conquer, now needs to be saved.
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UPDATE: One arrested in relation to June 20 drive-by shooting
Police are still looking for two of the three suspects who allegedly shot at two men, injuring one, while driving west on Spring Avenue in Morgan Hill the night of June 20. Authorities think the shooting, which followed a verbal argument between two groups of men, was gang-related. The suspects “should be considered armed and dangerous,” according to a June 24 press release from MHPD. Police arrested Deja Maria Ayala, 21 of Gilroy, the night of June 24, according to Morgan Hill Police Sgt. Carson Thomas. Ayala is accused of driving the gray four-door sedan from which the suspects shot the victims. Morgan Hill police responded to the area of Spring Avenue and Monterey Road about 11:14 p.m. June 20 to investigate a report of shots fired, according to the press release.As officers arrived they found two victims, including a 25-year-old Gilroy man who suffered multiple gunshot wounds to his upper torso and arm, police said. The second victim, a 29-year-old Morgan Hill man, was not injured. Officers provided the Gilroy man with first aid until fire and paramedics arrived, according to authorities. The man was later transported to a local trauma center for emergency surgery and continued care. He remains in “serious but stable” condition and is expected to survive. During the investigation officers learned an argument began between the victims and another group of males just behind Mr. Hong’s Chinese restaurant, 16745 Monterey Road, police said. The two victims attempted to walk away from the altercation, but the two male suspects continued to taunt and yell at them. As the victims were walking westbound on Spring Avenue, the two male suspects entered a gray four-door sedan which was driven by Ayala, police said. The young woman drove the vehicle westbound on Spring Avenue, and stopped abruptly near the victims. At that point multiple gunshots were seen and heard coming from inside the vehicle, police said. All three suspects fled the scene in the vehicle which was last seen in the area of Spring and Del Monte avenues, according to the press release. The suspects were later identified as Francisco Diaz, 22, Nicolas Young, 21, and Ayala, police said. All three suspects are from Gilroy. Police identified the suspects through previous “police contacts in Gilroy and Morgan Hill” and video surveillance of the area where the June 20 shooting occurred, according Thomas. Ayala turned herself in at the Morgan Hill Police department about 9:35 p.m. June 24, according to police. She was booked on suspicion of attempted murder and committing a crime while out on bail.The last shooting reported by authorities in the Morgan Hill area was in October 2012, when two men who knew each other had a verbal dispute at a home on Peebles Avenue that ended with the suspect, Mario Calderon, 33, shooting the victim in the arm. The last gang-related drive-by shooting reported by Morgan Hill police occurred Nov. 4, 2011, when five suspects allegedly shot and killed 14-year-old Tara Romero and injured three of her teen friends outside the Village Avante Apartments complex at the intersection of Cosmo and Del Monte avenues. Diaz and Young are still on the run and should be considered armed and dangerous, police said. Anyone with information about this incident can contact Morgan Hill police at (408) 779-2101 or the anonymous tip line at (408) 947-7867.
Husband seeking compromise should give wife a break
DEAR ABBY: I have been married to my wife for a year and a half, and we have an infant child. I work while my wife stays home. My problem is she doesn't like me playing sports and hanging out with friends.








