Crime

Hollister police are looking for a woman suspected of removing money from a customer’s wallet at the local Safeway store, according to a statement from police.

Hollister police and many other regional agencies conducted a gang sweep Friday and arrested seven people, according to an announcement from police.

Police Chief Jeff Miller is set to retire April 20, while the city manager plans to rotate the two captains in the position before opening it to applicants.

The California Highway Patrol has submitted its report to the district attorney in the January roadway death of Ryan McFall and has recommended charges of driving under the influence and gross vehicular manslaughter against Hollister's Breanna Stewart, according to a CHP spokesman.

The San Jose driver whose car crashed into the Cadillac sedan that was carrying Andrel Gaines and four other friends Nov. 6 is being charged with vehicular manslaughter and driving under the influence with great bodily injury, according to California Highway Patrol spokesman Tony Tam of the San Mateo County division.  

At a press conference today at 10 a.m., the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Department confirmed that missing 15-year-old Sierra LaMar’s Juicy brand purse was found. 

Authorities said Thursday morning that the body of a middle-aged woman - likely Martha Gutierrez, 52, who police believe was shot and killed by her son Abel Gutierrez March 14 - has been located near Pacheco Pass Highway where it meets Highway 156.

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Law enforcement investigators have interviewed more than 50 teenagers in Morgan Hill and Fremont in hopes of turning up some clues that might lead them to find Sierra LaMar, 15, who has been missing since Friday, authorities said.