Crime

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...

A North Bay police department said it had arrested, March 12, a man on attempted murder, vandalism and resisting arrest charges in Los Gatos. The Healdsburg Police Department said on Facebook it had arrested Damian Martines-Osorio in connection to an April 30, 2024 tire-slashing incident...

Police Blotter Aug. 14 • A vehicle, which had its keys inside, was reported stolen on Edelen Avenue. • A stolen vehicle was recovered on University Avenue. • A man was arrested for driving with an open container of alcohol on the 15500 block of Union Avenue at...

From the files of the Los Gatos-Monte Sereno Police Department for the week of April 17-23. April 17 • Someone vandalized a retaining wall with graffiti on Escobar Avenue. • A box of jewelry was reported stolen from a home on Cherrystone Drive. • A man was arrested...

A couple of hours before the yearly Los Gatos-Monte Sereno Police Foundation luncheon, Oct. 19, where Chief Jamie Field was set to recognize Jiffy Mart for its contribution to community safety, a call came in to the department. Days earlier, the store had become the...

It was the day after retired Los Gatos-Monte Sereno Police Department Sgt. Tam McCarthy helped lay a long-time cop, John Pernick, to rest. So on Oct. 27, as he gave an address at a much more celebratory gathering—the inaugural Los Gatos Community Police Academy graduation—he...

On a midday visit to the Sugarloaf Road turn-off, Monday, the Los Gatan discovered another discarded collection of previously-opened mail, just over the edge. It's the same vicinity, just north of Scotts Valley, where about two or three dozen election ballots were discovered days earlier,...

A San Jose recycling company has been ordered by a Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge to pay $25,000 in civil penalties for causing dangerous fires to start in the back of garbage trucks in Campbell.   The company, iDiskk, LLC, its principal Yue Zou,...

Below we have a week's worth of complaint-files from the Los Gatos-Monte Sereno Police Department... Jan. 2 • A man was arrested for being in possession of unlawful paraphernalia on Los Gatos Boulevard and Roberts Road at 12:46pm. Jan. 3 • A man was arrested for vehicle theft...

The Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Gun Violence Task Force and sheriff’s deputies seized weapons and explosives after a Wednesday raid on a San Jose home. Christopher Paul Roberts, a 37-year-old resident of the 2200 block of Bailey Avenue, was arrested and charged with, explosive...