By Khalida Sarwari
It was a long day in Long Beach for a handful of Campbell police detectives. Their assignment was to track down and arrest a Campbell man who had fled after allegedly stabbing another man in the driveway of a duplex just days earlier.
The June 14 search for 27-year-old Gustavo Dasilva eventually led the detectives to a home in Long Beach–his girlfriend’s.
“They contacted him there and took him into custody for one count of attempted murder,” said Capt. Dave Carmichael, a spokesman for the Campbell Police Department.
The charge stems from a stabbing on June 9 in which Dasilva is considered a suspect. That night, at about 9:15 p.m., officers responded to a duplex at 399 N. Central Ave. on a report of a stabbing. They found a 27-year-old Los Gatos man with a single stab wound to his torso. The assailant had already fled the scene on foot, said Carmichael.
Paramedics transported the victim to Santa Clara Valley Medical Center with injuries that were not considered life-threatening.
Meanwhile, police detectives identified Dasilva as the suspect, obtained an arrest warrant and started looking for him.
“Within the next couple of days we were able to develop some leads that he had fled and headed down to the Los Angeles area,” Carmichael said.
Dasilva was arrested at his girlfriend’s house with the help of the Long Beach Police Department and Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Office. The girlfriend was not involved or apprehended, said Carmichael.
The incident does not appear to be gang related or a domestic dispute, according to Carmichael.
“The best we can tell is two guys who know each other got into some kind of altercation,” he said.
Dasilva is a native of Brazil who resided at the duplex where the stabbing took place.
Campbell police transported Dasilva to the Bay Area and booked him into Santa Clara County Main Jail. The district attorney’s office has filed one count of assault with a deadly weapon charge against him, according to Carmichael.
The following day, on June 15, officers served a search warrant at a home in the same duplex where the stabbing occurred and arrested Sheila Greenlaw, 34, on suspicion of aiding a fleeing felon knowing that the felon is attempting to escape, according to Carmichael.
“We believe that she was in phone contact with Gustavo when he was on the run and provided information to help him avoid law enforcement contact,” Carmichael said. “Her actions made our job to capture Gustavo much more difficult.”
The victim has since been released from the hospital and is recovering, he said.
The knife used in the stabbing has yet to be recovered.
Stabbings are not common in Campbell, Carmichael said. Last year, the city recorded 49 aggravated assaults.
