Crime

The county sheriff’s office is investigating a suspected homicide after finding a body over an embankment and a baseball bat in a rural area southwest of San Juan Bautista.

The San Benito County Sheriff's Office is looking for the public's help regarding a case of shots fired near Buena Vista Road on Monday.

A longtime local resident is suspected of stealing tens of thousands of dollars from her parents by using their credit card and writing fraudulent checks on such expenses as rent, utilities and a cash-advance outlet in town, according to a sheriff’s detective who shared details of the case.

More than two months after the spring 1988 arrest of an innocent suspect for the Easter weekend murder of 21-year-old Martha Delarosa in the farm town of Hollister, investigators finally found a clue leading to the wrongfully jailed man’s release and an eventual conviction for the actual killer, Gustavo Marlow.

Hollister police last week arrested three male suspects on suspicion of possessing a stolen vehicle and trying to cash a stolen check, according to a statement from the department released Monday.

The Hollister Police Department on Wednesday announced it partnered with a state agency on a contractor sting at a home in the city.

Shortly after the Hollister Police Department on Wednesday posted an alert about a hit-and-run accident in town, the suspect turned himself in, according to the HPD.

San Benito County prosecutors this week charged Hollister resident Shawn G. Bourdet on suspicion of felony counts alleging he caused injuries to a child in the July 4 fireworks incident on Brigantino Drive.

Two of the men accused of battery against police in a Sept. 11 incident at the Hollister Elks Club—one of them faces a felony charge—are set to appear in court for continued arraignment hearings Tuesday.