Crime

Hollister police allege that a large party at the Hollister Elks Lodge resulted in officers being assaulted when they tried to break it up, according to the Hollister Police Department in a statement released Thursday.

A San Juan Bautista man has been charged on suspicion of practicing medicine without a license along with other charges.

A small fire near a homeless encampment  and tomato field off Buena Vista Road burned about a half-acre Tuesday afternoon, according to firemen at the scene.

Five weeks after 11-year-old Joshua Rodriguez was hit and killed by a county transit bus, the Hollister Police Department is continuing to work on the investigation while awaiting results, the police chief said.

Read the latest blotter items from the Hollister Police Department.

Hollister police Monday announced the arrest of an 11-year-old and 13-year-old on suspicion of vandalizing the Briggs Building parking garage downtown.

Oceanside's Eleazar Roman Cruz was killed by a single gunshot wound to the upper chest, according to a San Benito County Sheriff's Office official.

Authorities on Wednesday morning located about 30 acres of corn concealing marijuana—along with buildings to process it—in the San Juan Bautista and San Martin areas.

Sheriff's authorities Monday released the identity of a man whose body was found in rural Panoche Valley on Aug. 6. The man was Eleazar Roman Cruz, 29, from Oceanside, according to a sheriff's office statement.

An initial report of a vehicle running into a golf cart turned out to be a suspected drunk driver on the course at San Juan Oaks Golf Club in Hollister on Thursday afternoon.