Crime

The San Benito County Fire Protection Committee will meet Thursday, at 8:30 a.m., at Hollister City Hall, 375 Fifth St., in Hollister. The committee includes representatives from the County of San Benito, Hollister and San Juan Bautista, as well as representatives from the fire agencies that service the county and cities.

Authorities have released the identify of the man found killed in a Hollister home Feb. 5, but remain mostly quiet on details in the case that a police captain called “complicated.”

Feb. 25

Santa Clara resident Anthony Tamayo, 71, died around 1:25 p.m. Sunday afternoon when the 2013 Chrysler 300 he was driving ran off the highway near Burnette Avenue, just north of Cochrane Road on U.S. 101 in Morgan Hill.

Local law enforcement agencies, with assistance from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, State Parole and UNET, arrested seven people during a compliance sweep in Hollister on Friday at 6 a.m.

Feb. 20

Hollister Police Officers arrested a 15-year-old juvenile for vehicle theft on Sunday at 1:30 a.m.

Hollister Police officers arrested Greg Larios, 29, on Feb. 15 on gun and drug charges after a car stop in which Larios evaded police who caught him after a short foot pursuit.

David J. Quiroz, the Hollister man accused in the killing of 25-year-old Heather Carroll, has a hearing set for Thursday at the San Benito County Courthouse.

The sentence hearing for Jorge Diaz, the local homeless man who accepted a plea deal in the slaying of Francisco Rojas at a Hollister cemetery, was delayed until March.