Crime

Deputies with a the San Benito County Sheriff's Department's

After pleading no contest to embezzling almost $11,000 from the

Lance Purcell, a sexual predator who was being evaluated for

BATTERY TO A PEACE OFFICER: Felix Soliz Verdusco, Jr., 40, of 850 Hillcrest Rd. #19 in Hollister, was arrested by San Benito County Sheriff's deputies for battery to a peace officer and violation of parole, both felonies, resisting arrest, providing false information to a peace officer and being under the influence of heroin, all misdemeanors, at 2900 Fairview Road at 3:25 p.m. on Wednesday. After deputies responded to the residence for a report of a suspicious vehicle and began talking to Verdusco they discovered he had several outstanding warrants out of Monterey County. When they told him they were going to arrest him he tried to escape, and when deputies caught him he scratched and hit them. Police administered pepper spray and finally took him into custody, according to deputies.

As tension between the City of Hollister and the Hollister

Lance Purcell, who has been incarcerated in a state hospital for

Law enforcement officials seized over 2,000 marijuana plants