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December 6, 2024

Scammers dupe PG&E customers

Electrical towers and lines
The power company is raising the alarm about a seemingly ever-present danger that has nothing to do with arcing, downed wires or electricity surges, but sparked nearly seven-dozen reports in Los Gatos last year. Pacific Gas & Electric, Co. says it counted 43,000 customers being...

Downtown boutiques deal with break-ins

suspect inside East Kennedy
With afternoon turning to evening, Raschel Archambeault would normally be closing-up-shop at East Kennedy, but on Feb. 28, she was waiting for a locksmith. Earlier in the day she’d learned overnight a man had broken-into the downtown boutique she manages, and so here she was...

​​Los Gatos man admits to murdering wife after New Year’s Eve domestic incident footage uncovered

Yeager's Home
This week, John Maxey Yeager was charged with first degree murder and felony false imprisonment of his wife, Yingying "Dawn" Yu, who had filed for a divorce that was never finalized.

Los Gatos agrees to $800K body-cam, Taser deal with Axon Enterprises

Axon website
The Los Gatos Town Council unanimously approved a five-year $800,000 deal with Axon Enterprises, Inc. for body-worn cameras, tasers and digital evidence management

Task force arrests 9 for sex trafficking

trafficking victim
Nine people were arrested, and 18 victims were recovered during a law enforcement operation targeting a Colombian-based sex trafficking operation operating in the South Bay.  The Santa Clara County District Attorney's Office announced Nov. 7 that Operation Phoenix resulted in charges ranging from human trafficking,...

Town agrees to share license plate data with law enforcement agencies

Detective describes using Flock cameras to investigate a commercial break-in
In the 30 days leading up to Nov. 9, 2022, in order to find 23 vehicles that might have been involved in a crime, the Flock Safety Automated License Plate Reader (ALPR) system scanned 458,411 plates, the Electronic Frontier Foundation found. Since then, Los Gatos’...

Man convicted of felony drug sales in Los Gatos

Simon Armendariz
A San Jose drug dealer will be sentenced to 12 years in prison after being convicted last week of selling fentanyl-laced pills to a group of Los Gatos High School students. Several students carried Narcan with them in case they overdosed on the toxic drug,...

Santa Cruz Mountains armed robbery suspects at large

Santa Cruz Mountains
Three suspects involved in an armed robbery this morning near Highway 9 and State Route 35—where Skyline Boulevard and the route between Saratoga and Boulder Creek intersect—were at large on Monday afternoon, authorities said. The Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s Office said a victim had their...

Police confiscate revolver after arresting man

revolver and holster
Los Gatos-Monte Sereno Police Department officers confiscated a firearm, Saturday, following a traffic stop where police drew their guns in the arrest of a suspect. The San Jose Police Department shared information about a vehicle it said was connected to a man suspected of pointing...

San Jose police union official accused of smuggling fentanyl into U.S.

stole your soul? graf art
The executive director of the San Jose police officers’ union has been charged with buying and distributing fentanyl for more than eight years, according to a complaint filed by the U.S. Attorney in U.S. District Court in San Jose. Joanne Marian Segovia, 64, was charged...

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