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Participants of Community Police Academy reach finish line
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...
Tearful testimony at bail hearing for woman accused of throwing parties for teens
A group of teenagers who say they were victimized by Los Gatos resident Shannon O’Connor, who’s accused of throwing parties for minors and permitting sexual abuse to take place at her home, filed into the Santa Clara County Superior Courtroom alongside parents on Jan....
4 children reported for playing with a lighter at creek on Escobar Ave (Police Blotter, Sept. 18-24)
Police Blotter for the week of Sept. 18-24, 2022.
Sept. 18
• A woman was arrested for being in possession of an open container of alcohol while driving on Los Gatos Boulevard and Walker Street at 1:20am.
• A caller reported two men were standing outside “being...
Explosives, guns seized from San Jose home
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...
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...
BLAZING BATTERIES: Recycler fined $25k for Campbell garbage truck fires
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,...
Kidnapping suspect arrested in Los Gatos following chase
A law enforcement chase of a kidnapping suspect ended peacefully in downtown Los Gatos Sunday evening.
Sgt. Russell Davis of the Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office said deputies were assisted by a San Jose Police Department helicopter.
"We wanted to make sure we had eyes in...
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...
Customer steals $10 from downtown business, uses it buy beer from the bar (Police Blotter, June 27-July 2)
From the files of the Los Gatos-Monte Sereno Police Department for the week of June 27-July 2, 2022.
June 27
• A man was arrested after he was found passed out under a tree on Howes Drive with a bottle of vodka next to him at...
Hotel guest stole two cases of juice; caller reports transient making “bird calls;” truck drives back and forth on railroad. (Police Blotter, Dec. 19-24)
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...
