Crime

Jose Antonio Barajas, who was arrested in Mexico last summer on suspicion of murdering a teenage girl in Hollister in 2014, will next appear in local court Feb. 6. The hearing is scheduled as a “pre-preliminary” hearing, according to records at the San Benito County...

Buckingham says the signs violated San Benito County ordinance

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. 

Hollister police arrested two suspects and are seeking a third for the Easter shooting on Washington Street that sent a man to the hospital.

Hollister police and county sheriff’s deputies arrested six suspects Tuesday on suspicion of drug-related charges, according to a statement from police.

With jail overcrowding a problem that is only expected to get worse as the state moves lower-risk inmates from state prisons to the counties where they committed their crimes, San Benito County Sheriff Darren Thompson is hopeful a jail expansion grant can stem that coming tide.

Following an hours-long standoff, police arrested a man who was brandishing weapons and threatening to hurt himself outside a vacant store in Hollister, authorities said. About 6:38am Sept. 9, a woman called Hollister Police to report her brother had called her and made suicidal comments,...

A former Gilroy educator pleaded guilty to federal wire fraud for soliciting donations from individuals to help her pay for cancer treatments she did not need nor received, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office. Amanda Christine Riley admitted to purposely deceiving people into thinking she...

A federal judge in Washington, D.C., sentenced Mariposa Castro, of Gilroy, to 45 days in jail Feb. 23 for her participation in the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Castro, also known as Imelda Castro, was also ordered to pay a $5,000...