Crime

Hollister police Wednesday reunited the owner of a pit bull with the pet dog after it had been missing for nearly 11 months, according to the Hollister Police Department.

San Benito County supervisors will again consider a consolidation of safety services, with Interim County Administrative Officer Ray Espinosa requesting proposals from both the sheriff’s department and the Hollister Police Department on what it would cost each agency to provide many of the law enforcement services in the community.

Hollister police officers arrested a juvenile suspect for an alleged hit and run collision on South and Line streets Tuesday evening.

May 6

Police on Friday arrested a 15-year-old residential burglary suspect and tracked down some of the stolen property, along with an unregistered handgun, according to a statement from the Hollister Police Department.

Former fire marshal and Capt. Mike O’Connor, who has been instrumental in talks with the county over a cooperative service contract, has been named interim chief of the Hollister Fire Department.

A wildfire just northwest of Tres Pinos that started late Friday morning had burned about 300 acres as of mid-afternoon. That fire has been 100 percent contained, according to Calfire.

Some say bad things happen in threes, but when you live near Gilroy, Morgan Hill and Hollister – a terrestrial intersection where a handful of earthquake fault lines converge like superhighways (namely, Sargent, Calaveras, Quien Sabe, San Andreas and Paicines) the trio of temblors that popped up in the exact same spot this week is a matter of geographic reality; not superstition.

Hollister police last weekend arrested 29-year-old man after a vehicle chase on the city’s west side that resulted in the driver’s car going off a small cliff and landing in a ravine, according to the police department.

The Hollister woman who tried to slip a sleep-aid drug into children’s drinks at the Morgan Hill daycare facility where she worked pleaded no contest to attempted child endangerment at South County Courthouse on Thursday.