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Local authorities this week arrested two Hollister men suspected of stealing property from four homes, according to the Hollister Police Department.

Ray Wood, the former Hollister police sergeant and 2010 sheriff candidate convicted of embezzling more than $100,000 from the city officers union, was sentenced Friday to six months in the county jail.

The San Benito County Sheriff's Office is continuing to investigate a 24-year-old San Juan Bautista man arrested on suspicion of having sex with a minor, according to an announcement from the sheriff's office.

The suspect accused of a stabbing homicide at a Hollister cemetery in March 2011 has pleaded not guilty.

One of the two suspects in the alleged Christmas theft of copper wire from a Pacific Gas & Electric facility in Hollister failed to appear at a trial setting Thursday and had a warrant issued for his arrest, according to court records.

Two suspects accused of robbing two Hollister stores on San Juan Road in April 2010 – and leading police on a chase through Salinas before ending in a crash that killed a fourth accused assailant – had their scheduled jury trials moved from March to June, according to court records.

The California Highway Patrol’s investigation into a Jan. 13 fatal car wreck on Union Road is not finished, according to an agency spokesman.

One of two suspects in the suspected Christmas theft of copper wire from a Hollister Pacific Gas & Electric facility has a jury trial scheduled for late February.

Police are alleging a local man got in the habit of snatching beer from area stores.

The trial for accused child killer Cheryl L. Busch has been delayed from its February date until late March.