Crime

Jonathan Fidone, the Hollister man convicted of molesting a 19-month-old child, received a sentence Wednesday of 23 years to life in prison.

Morgan Hill police are investigating an armed robbery at a local hotel that might be related to two similar incidents that occurred in Hollister in recent days. 

Firefighters from the Gilroy Sunrise Station responded to a greenhouse fire at 8:15 a.m. on the 1900 block of Buena Vista Avenue that harmed an estimated 200,000 orchids and caused roughly $1 million in damage according to Karen Lin, whose parents own the business.

Three Gilroy residents were arrested around 3 a.m. this morning for drug possession when they were allegedly found driving a car so packed with marijuana that the trunk would not close.

Hollister police Sunday morning responded to the area of Miller Road at San Juan Road for a reporting shooting.

A proposed change concerning the provisional board appointment of a new trustee has been made to the agenda for tonight's Board of Trustees meeting at Gavilan College, located at 5055 Santa Teresa Blvd. in Gilroy.

A house on Enterprise Road near Hollister was largely consumed in a fire Monday afternoon.

On Wednesday, animal control officers with the Hollister Police Department Animal Care and Services Bureau responded to the Hollister Methodist United Church at 521 Monterey St. for a deceased bat, and lab testing confirmed it was infected with the rabies virus, according to the HPD.

The Wiebe Motel and Cinderella Motel were both robbed in recent days – resulting in a clerk being stabbed and flown to a hospital – and police believe the two incidents might have been related.