Crime

Local authorities on Thursday morning seized an array of weapons and an estimate of between 70,000 and 80,000 marijuana plants along Frye Lane in San Benito County, according to a statement released Thursday afternoon.

Hollister police arrested a 17-year-old male on suspicion of drugging and raping a female over the July 4 weekend, according to police.

Hollister's police chief Wednesday expressed frustration after two arrests linked to accusations of sexual assault at a local daycare and urged residents to report crimes regardless of immigration status.

Hollister police arrested a couple running a daycare center on accusations linked to a sexual assault investigation, according to a Hollister Police Department report released Wednesday afternoon.

Read the latest blotter items from the Hollister Police Department.

Police reported making four arrests in connection with an apartment burglary in late June.

Hollister police had not submitted a report to the district attorney’s office in a July 4 fireworks case as of Friday, but expect to do so at some point this week, a department official has confirmed.

A judge Thursday sentenced the former treasurer of the Baler Band Booster Club after she had pleaded no contest in an embezzlement case, according to court records.

The Hollister man and former Boy Scouts leader suspected of sexually assaulting two juvenile teenagers between 2002 and 2005 has his latest hearing scheduled for next week.

The local police department has a backlog of work due to short staffing on positions that process many of the agency's reports, so it is temporarily reducing office hours, according to a statement.