Updated: Police to release details in slaying after Monday’s autopsy
Investigators believe David J. Quiroz killed Heather Alaina Carroll, a 25-year-old mother and wife, in the same residence where a standoff ensued Friday night in southeast Hollister.
Updated: Body found after standoff, presumed to be missing mother
Investigators on Saturday found a female body during a search of a Hollister residence following an overnight standoff and arrest in the case of missing Hollister woman Heather Carroll.
Police in standoff with ‘person of interest’ in case of missing woman
Police have remained in a standoff for several hours with a "person of interest" in the case involving a missing 25-year-old Hollister woman.
Missing woman’s husband says family ‘doing everything we can’
Hollister's Grady Carroll, the husband of missing woman Heather Carroll, spoke briefly Friday about the family’s efforts to locate his wife.
San Juan man accepts plea deal in child sex case
San Juan Bautista resident Roy A. Harrison, arrested in June and accused of having sex with a minor, has accepted a plea deal and is set for sentencing Tuesday on three related charges, according to court records.
Police ramp up efforts in search for missing mother
Until Friday, two days after a 25-year-old mother’s disappearance, police “haven’t had a really good geographic area for searches” in the case of missing Hollister resident Heather Carroll, said interim Police Chief David Westrick. But Westrick indicated Friday that investigators – including a search and rescue unit brought in from the sheriff’s office – had begun narrowing their efforts to specific locations.
Missing Hollister woman’s SUV found engulfed in flames
Hollister police early Thursday recovered the engulfed vehicle belonging to a 25-year-old Hollister woman who was reported as missing Wednesday after she failed to pick up her child and others from school.
Suspect believed to be on the run to Mexico after shooting, hammer attack
Police are looking for a man who shot one victim and struck another on the head with a hammer early Thursday morning in Morgan Hill.
County GOP reports vandalism, theft of Romney signs
San Benito County’s Republican Party last weekend posted a handful of large signs supporting presidential candidate Mitt Romney. The local party’s chairman on Wednesday reported that one of those signs was vandalized – so it now reads “Romney Lies” – and another was stolen.
