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Gilroy police chief’s truck, gun, badge snatched

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CITY SAYS IT HAS BEGUN TO LOOK AT THEFT IN MODESTO Staff report

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Gilroy Police Chief Scot Smithee, a 30-year-plus law enforcement veteran, found himself the victim of a crime when someone stole his personal vehicle April 17, according to police. The chief ’s service firearm and badge, among other personal items, were inside the vehicle when it disappeared, police said Tuesday. Smithee was in Modesto on personal business, attending a graduation after he left Gilroy on Friday, according to a press release from Gilroy Police Department. After the ceremony, Smithee discovered his truck was missing and presumed stolen. Modesto police are investigating the crime. The truck had been locked and the vehicle alarm activated when Smithee left it parked earlier in the evening, police said. Along with personal items, Smithee had temporarily stored his department-issued service firearm, police badge and city-issued laptop computer inside the truck, police said. As of May 1, the truck was recovered but the other items had not been located.

INTERVIEWED Santa Clara County Sheriff Laurie Smith and challenger John Hirokawa sat down for interviews with editors on April 20.

Sheriff’s race heats up SMITH, HIROKAWA TRADE BARBS AS COUNTY JAIL ISSUE DOMINATES TOPICS IN INTERVIEWS By Barry Holtzclaw & Michael Moore

Less than a month after some of her opponents said she should quit over decades-old ethical allegations, five-term incumbent Sheriff Laurie Smith has come out swinging.

In a no-holds-barred interview with editors of the Gilroy Dispatch and Morgan Hill Times, Smith claimed San Jose media were deliberately spreading false complaints about her— that she had interfered with a gender harassment complaint against her 25 years ago—and accused her leading challenger, her former undersheriff John Hirokawa, of responsibility for lax jail administration that led to the murder of an inmate in 2015 by correctional officers. On the same day of Smith’s interview, April 20, Hirokawa

also sat down in Morgan Hill with the same editors—New SV Media Publisher Dan Pulcrano, New SV Media Managing Editor and Gilroy Dispatch Editor Barry Holtzclaw and Morgan Hill Times Editor Michael Moore. Hirokawa said the sheriff had been “asleep” and unresponsive to his pleas for jail reforms prior to the death of a mentally ill inmate whose assailants—three jailers—would be convicted of murder. The two candidates’ attacks on each other in separate interviews showed clearly that the

increasingly vicious race for sheriff of California’s sixth most populous county has emerged as a two-person contest, and one that could continue past the June 5 primary. Administration of the county jail continues to be a big issue for both the incumbent and challengers. Smith is pressing hard to top the 50-percent mark in the primary vote and avoid a long, hot summer campaign. At the same time, she has avoided some opportunities to ➝ Sheriff Race, 4

Garlic poster set, queen is next GARLC FESTIVAL CHOOSES DESIGN OF GILROY ARTIST CHRIS DUFUR Staff Report

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Park on Sunday, May 6, 3pm at the Lakeside Amphitheater. Ten contestants will be judged by a panel of five judges on personal interview, talent, a garlic speech, and on-stage question. The winner will be crowned Miss Gilroy Garlic Festival 2018 and receive a $1,000 prize. This year’s contestants include Searra Harding and Sloane Pace from Gilroy High School; Jennesa Andrade, Melinda Colbert and Lauryn Longoria from Christopher High School; Frida Arias from the Dr. TJ Owens Early College Academy; Adrianna Molina from Gavilan College; Sophia Bocher and Kylie Kuwada, both students at Cal Poly; and Marciel Gomez, who attends the University of Nevada Las Vegas. Kathleen Bendel was elected the very first Miss Gilroy Garlic Festival Queen

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The Gilroy Garlic Festival has selected its poster, and will crown a queen this weekend. The annual Gilroy Garlic Festival Art Poster Contest receives submissions every year from across the country, but this year’s first-prize winner is a hometown artist, Chris Dufur. Dufur will receive a $500 prize, and prints of his winning design will be available for sale during the 40th Annual Gilroy Garlic Festival, July 27- 29. The festival said Dufur had submitted three different entries in different styles. His winning poster was a traditional

watercolor featuring a metal tub of fresh-picked garlic bulbs in a field against a backdrop of rolling green hills and trees. This year, the festival poster committee received 33 entries from artists in Florida, Colorado, Massachusetts, and Texas. Ruth Ann Irving of Gilroy won second place and a $250 prize. Third place and a $100 prize went to Deborah Walker Schwarz, also from Gilroy. And Gilroy’s own JoAnne Perez Robinson won $200 for the “Association’s Choice” prize, voted on by volunteer members of the Gilroy Garlic Festival Association. Every year since 1979, the Gilroy Garlic Festival has crowned a Miss Gilroy Garlic Festival Queen to reign over the festivities. This year’s 40th annual Queen Pageant will be held at Gilroy Gardens Family Theme

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Gilroy designed this winner poster for the Gilroy Garlic Festival. For more information, go to gilroygarlicfestival.com.

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