Crime

Hollister Police are investigating two shootings reported near the city’s downtown in recent days—including one that resulted in injuries to a victim.  About 10:30pm Feb. 1, Hollister Police officers responded to a report of a shooting on the 100 block of McCray Street, according to...

A recent gang member compliance check by local law enforcement authorities resulted in two arrests and the discovery that three residents are in violation of their post-release sentencing terms, according to police.

Hollister Police are seeking information related to the March 11 assault of a juvenile near Vista Hill Park.

Hollister Police are investigating two shootings that occurred in the downtown area March 5, according to authorities. No injuries or significant property damage were reported in either shooting, and police are still looking for the suspects, says a Facebook post from the Hollister Police Department. The...

Police on Dec. 30 arrested two suspects on weapons charges after a citizen alerted authorities to a looming fight among several people, one of whom displayed a handgun, according to a police statement.

Hollister Police and San Benito County Sheriff’s deputies were busy this past weekend responding to numerous incidents involving violent or reckless behavior—on top of a planned traffic safety checkpoint in the city limits, according to authorities.  The Sept. 24 DUI and driver’s license checkpoint—led by...

Used condoms and an empty handcuff box were found Thursday by a volunteer searcher at the west end of Palm Avenue, about a mile from missing teen Sierra LaMar’s bus stop in Morgan Hill, though Santa Clara County Sheriff Laurie Smith said Thursday night that “it’s possibly nothing.”

Hollister police are investigating what Mayor Ignacio Velazquez calls a “hate crime” against a council member by prominent local lobbyist and former mayor Victor Gomez. Velazquez announced the investigation in a written statement to the Free Lance before the Jan. 21 city council meeting and...

After a standoff at a Hollister residence, police arrested three people on suspicion of firearms, drugs and child endangerment violations Friday morning, according to authorities.

For at least the second time in less than a month, police delivered the Narcan medication to a San Benito County resident June 1 who had just suffered a drug overdose, according to authorities. Hollister Police officers, fire personnel and medics from American Medical Response...