Crime

Here we have a week of reports received by local police... Dec. 19 • A woman was arrested for being in possession of burglary tools and unlawful paraphernalia on Benedict Lane and Chirco Drive at 1:43am. • A guest at a hotel on Los Gatos-Saratoga Road reportedly...

Investigators arrested more than a dozen people suspected of being involved in catalytic converter thefts from vehicles in cities throughout the Bay Area, according to San Jose Police.  The arrest of 15 suspects over several weeks was the culmination of a six-month investigation into the...

The names of the two men whose bodies were found in a pickup truck in the Santa Cruz Mountains a week ago were released Tuesday by the Santa Clara County Medical Examiner’s Office. The identities of the victims, previously identified by family members, are Colter...

From the files of the Los Gatos-Monte Sereno Police Department for the week of May 15-21. May 15 • A man was arrested for being in possession of a controlled substance on the 1500 block of Pollard Road at 1:31am. • A woman was arrested for driving...

The Los Gatos-Monte Sereno Police Department has promoted its network of the license plate readers it’s set up around town to monitor traffic and alert it to vehicles deemed suspicious, handing out awards to officers who’ve used the cameras to crack cases and highlighting...

Prosecutors say it was "sheer luck" that no shoppers were struck by the flying bullets that led to a lockdown of a popular South Bay shopping mall in the lead-up to Christmas. Three people have now been charged in connection with the Dec. 20 incident,...

A man suspected of attempting to kill a sheriff's deputy in Santa Clara County was taken into custody on Jan. 30, the Sheriff's Office announced.  Emmanuel Diaz Ramos, 41, was located at the Pruneyard Shopping Center in Campbell and was arrested and booked into the...

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’...

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...

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...