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Police Blotter: Paranoid Man Attacks Victim With Glass

A selection of Gilroy Police blotter items from Thursday through Monday.

Monday

3:09 a.m. The suspect threw a punch at the victim, who is a bartender at the Longhouse Restaurant, and missed. The case was sent to the District Attorney’s office for review.

Saturday

8:17 p.m. Cynthia Gallegos, 38, instructed her juvenile nephew to push a shopping cart full of merchandise out of the Walmart store and into the van that she was waiting in. 

3:30 p.m. Miguel Pacheco was intoxicated, threw a coffee cup at the victim on West Eighth Street causing injury, and then inferred with her telephone call for help. 

3:19 p.m. Joseph Luna was stopped in a vehicle in which he was a passenger on Maple Street and East Sixth Street. During a passenger compliance check, a bindle of methamphetamine and a glass pipe were located.

Friday

4:30 p.m. Unknown suspects smashed the victim’s window to her locked vehicle on Swanston Lane and attempted to steal the stereo’s faceplate. The suspect was scared off and left the items behind.

11:54 a.m. Regina Thomas agreed to a sex act in exchange for money. She was arrested.

7:30 a.m. Unknown suspects cut the pad lock on the conex box and stole tools and copper wiring from a construction site.

5:30 a.m. Victim was in a hotel room with two suspects. She was using the bathroom when one of the suspects, Alvaro Caldera, 34, entered and began making sexual advances on her. She was eventually raped while in the bathroom.

Thursday

10:47 a.m. The suspect suffers from paranoia schizophrenia and attacked the victim with glass, leaving a laceration on the victim’s head. The suspect was taken to Valley Medical Hospital for a mental health evaluation.

2:19 p.m. The first suspect parked the listed vehicle near the emergency exit of the Super Walmart while the second suspect exited the store with an HP computer. 

12:00 p.m. On the listed date and time, the suspect punched and kicked the victim during an argument on Princevalle Street.

12:05 a.m. A woman parked her listed vehicle at the Super Walmart parking on Camino Arroyo. She was inside the store shopping for over six hours.  When she returned to her vehicle, she discovered that it had been stolen by an unknown suspect.

 

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Raymond Ruiz April 13, 2013 at 10:54 pm
It just don't matter how she dresses,whoo her parents are or aren't. Nobody and I mean Nobody hasRead More the right to rape or force a femsle to have sex with her,and then to make matters worse,they posted pictures of her on facebook ! Better we as a community should be asking,what would possess the young guys to do something like this ! That is why We have Our teenagers and kids passwords or no internet period ! As a parent my heart goes out to het and her parents !
Tamra~Kathleen April 13, 2013 at 05:51 pm
The offensive comment we're discussing shows a complete lack of respect for women that permeates ourRead More culture. That this person actually thought this poor young girl had culpability for her attack is a symptom of our societies disregard for women. I'm actually glad he made the comment so we can look at and discuss the problem.
Berto April 12, 2013 at 07:27 pm
From one of the interviews I watched online, it seems that many Saratoga High students knew whatRead More happened at the party and had seen the pictures. How is it that arrests did not follow the assault and the suicide for over 6 months? Could it be that the students who knew information about the felony chose to remain silent? I hope that is not the case; we will surely find out as the details of the case are revealed in the media over the next weeks and months. In the meantime lets make sure we are teaching our kids about the responsibility of living in community and caring about others. God forbid that any of the students have to live with the knowledge that they could have prevented the suicide, or with the knowledge that they helped cover up such a heinous crime.