Crime

Hollister police arrested a suspect in a shooting that occurred just outside of Johnny’s Bar & Grill in the early hours of Valentine’s Day, according to a statement from the department.

The county coroner has identified a 23-year-old Honduran citizen whose body was found near San Juan Bautista after a suspected homicide.

A sheriff's official Wednesday confirmed that investigators believe a homicide victim was killed in San Benito County before his body showed up along an embankment near San Juan Bautista.

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.