Crime

The Hollister Police Department and San Benito County Sheriff’s Department officers responded to multiple shootings Wednesday and are still investigating the incidents.

Two people working on a pumpkin patch Wednesday morning were run over by a forklift after its driver lost control, according to the county fire department.

Police suspect that Lawrence R. Jones shot his ex-wife and dismembered her, according to a statement released today.

Police expect to recommend a homicide charge Tuesday against a longtime professor from the Naval Postgraduate School who is suspected of killing his 29-year-old ex-wife and dumping her body off a rural road near Aromas.

The Hollister Police Department sent out a notice advising residents of two sex offenders who have failed to register as required by law. They are asking anyone who knows the whereabouts of Anthony Davis or Victor Zamudio to call the local police department.

Authorities have arrested a man in connection with the death of the woman whose body was discovered near Aromas last week and released the identity of the victim, according to a statement from the Monterey Police Department.

After receive two reports in two days of a suspicious male in the area of Calaveras School, police officers have determined that it was a misunderstanding – the man reported as suspicious was there to check on his son who attends the school