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Los Gatos’ elementary school district to pay $5.1 million in child sex abuse case
Updated: 11:58 am, Oct. 21, 2022
Los Gatos' public elementary school system has agreed to pay a total of $5.1 million to two men who were sexually abused as children by Blossom Hill Elementary School teacher Joseph Brian Houg, the lawyers for the victims said...
Man arrested for indecent exposure; illegal dirt biking; caller worried about door-to-door salesman with “false front teeth” (Police Blotter, Jan. 31 – Feb. 5)
From the files of the Los Gatos-Monte Sereno Police Department for the week of Jan. 31-Feb. 5, 2022.
Jan. 31
• No injuries were reported after a vehicle overturned on Montclair Road in the early morning hours.
• A woman was arrested for obstructing a peace officer...
Police investigate pair of assaults on walking paths
Los Gatos-Monte Sereno Police are investigating a pair of January assaults along walking paths in the St. Joseph's Hill Open Space Preserve that appear to involve the same suspect.
On Jan. 13 at about 6:15pm, two people were threatened and assaulted by a man with...
Cops receive calls of naked man on the creek trail in broad daylight (Police Blotter, Feb. 13-19)
Los Gatos-Monte Sereno Police Blotter for the week of Feb. 13-19, 2022.
Feb. 13
• A caller reported a family having a barbecue along a creekside on Hicks and Shannon roads at 12:40pm.
• A vehicle was burglarized on Adrian Place.
• A woman was arrested for inflicting...
How a shooting upended holiday shopping just before Christmas
Police said Tuesday they still had not located a suspect or a victim in a shooting at one of the main regional malls serving South Bay holiday shoppers.
The San Jose Police Department received several calls about gunfire that occurred before 6pm at Westfield Oakridge,...
Family who says they need fence to protect against antisemitic violence told to tear it down
A Los Gatos couple who said they needed their six-foot fence in part to protect themselves against antisemitic violence has been told they must tear it down.
The Planning Commission unanimously refused to allow an exception to the three-foot-max rule for the property on Blossom...
A man carrying a guitar and a sack knocked on Daves Avenue door, asked to come in and play music (Police Blotter, Dec. 26-Jan. 1)
It was another week where a variety of reports were made to local police...
Dec. 26
• An RV was burglarized on Winchester Circle.
Dec. 27
• Someone threw a rock through a window of a business on the 900 block of University Avenue.
• A vehicle was burglarized...
Man arrested on suspicion of battery, annoying minors outside Van Meter Elementary
An alert parent walking his kids to school around 8am Thursday detained a man outside Los Gatos’ Louise Van Meter Elementary School after he spotted the individual following girls with a smartphone in his hand. By 8:15am, 63-year-old Los Gatos resident John Alan Hale...
2 murder counts for Boulder Creek man ID’d by victim before he was shot
On Monday, 36 days after police say Boulder Creek resident James David Collier, 66, shot and killed two men—then left their bodies in the back of a truck in the Santa Cruz Mountains—he had his first day in court.
That is, he was scheduled to...
Woman who threw parties for teens faces defamation action
Shannon O’Connor, the wife of tech executive Robert Amaral, who threw parties for teens at their Arroyo Del Rancho Road mansion, spent Christmas behind bars, after being called a threat to public safety and a high flight risk by prosecutors.
She’s been charged with 39...
