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vol . 5 , no. 28 : march 11-17, 2026 : losgatan.com
bear creek stables p4 : police blotter p7 : sports round-up p8 : youth on transit funding p9 Courtesy of Lupin Lodge
O’CONNOR FOUND GUILTY OF 47 CRIMES AND SHE FACES DECADES BEHIND BARS DA Rosen: This is a good day for Los Gatos Drew Penner, Editor
Shannon O’Connor, the mother charged with hosting alcohol-fueled parties for teens at her mansion in Los Gatos and orchestrating the sex lives of the youth in her orbit, is set to spend decades behind bars after a jury rendered its verdict March 4 in Santa Clara County Superior Court—finding her guilty of the majority of the 63 offenses she’d been charged with. While it was essentially a foregone conclusion she would be convicted of at least some of the furnishing-alcohol-for-a-minor charges, O’Connor was also found guilty of two counts of sexual penetration of an intoxicated victim, for influencing a child to engage in sexual activity with another child on multiple occasions. In addition, after the fourmonth trial, the defendant was convicted of multiple counts of felony and misdemeanor child endangerment, providing alcoholic beverages to a minor, and annoying or molesting a child under the age of 18—as well as a single count of attempting to dissuade a witness from reporting a crime. She was found not guilty of Count 5, child endangerment with the risk of causing great bodily injury to anonymous witness John Doe 2 on Sept. 18, 2020, and also not guilty of Count 25, the lesser included count for that incident. However, for every other serious charge for which she was ➝ Guilty, 6
BEAUTIFUL BIRD Kenny Elvin, of Full Circle Falconry and Wildlife Management, will be giving an interactive avian presentation at nude resort Lupin Lodge in the Santa Cruz Mountains this weekend. P4.
LGHS GRADS MAKE IT TO SUNDANCE FILM FEST Goldberg and Susick describe their journey to Hollywood Faizi Samadani, Contributor
After becoming friends in their teenage years at Fisher Middle School, Alec Goldberg and Clayton Susick have maintained a friendship and love for film. This led them to premiere their pilot “Soft Boil” at this year's Sundance Film Festival. Their passion for
film started early on in their lives, when they idolized films like “The Wizard of Oz” and “Lord of The Rings,” which helped cement their friendship from the get-go. Susick moved to Los Angeles to join Goldberg and tackle the film industry. They’re now making their dreams come true with "Soft Boil.” Both are graduates of Los Gatos High School (Susick in 2010, Goldberg in 2012), they describe their latest TV pilot as a complete joy to create.
When life imitates art
Goldberg met Camille Wormser at a festival they both attended. Wormser was debuting her film “Just Right.” Goldberg remembers his first impression of Wormser, “I loved what I was seeing from her,” he said. “I just thought she was brilliant and hilarious, especially with comedy.” Their meeting inspired Goldberg to write a first draft of a script. ➝ Sundance, 10
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