Crime

Darren Thompson, the San Benito County Sheriff, released the 2012 sheriff’s office annual report last week, citing an “exciting and disappointing” year for the department as the department fielded 8 percent more service calls with 40 percent of the patrol staff.

Michele Cameron, the mother of a 12-year-old daughter bit by a dog at Ridgemark Thursday evening, is pleading with the owner of the dog to come forward so that her daughter will not have to undergo a painful series of rabies vaccinations on Monday.

Incoming Hollister Police Chief David Westrick will be sworn in July 2 at the Veterans Memorial Building.

Hollister police officers arrested four people suspected of attempted commercial burglary and conspiracy to commit burglary early Thursday morning.

Hollister Police officers released surveillance photos Wednesday of a man suspected of taking a dog from a local business on McCray Street.

Capt. David Westrick will take over as Hollister’s police chief on July 2. Westrick served as interim police chief from April 2012 through Dec. 31, 2012, when Captain Carlos Reynoso took over interim police chief duties.

June 12

Police over the weekend arrested a Hollister man accused of burglarizing his ex-girlfriend’s home and refusing to leave the residence.

Hollister police early Sunday arrested a local man suspected of trying to break into an apartment building and possessing drug paraphernalia, according to a statement from Hollister police.

Police on Friday arrested three men after finding a loaded, stolen gun in a vehicle parked at the Save Mart parking lot, according to the Hollister Police Department.