Crime

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.

A convicted Morgan Hill horse abuser agreed to pay more than $113,000 in restitution to nine animal rescue organizations that took in and cared for more than three dozen horses that were removed from his care at an Aug. 7 hearing at the South County Courthouse.

David J. Quiroz, the Hollister man accused in the killing of 25-year-old Heather Carroll in October 2012, pleaded no contest Monday to first-degree murder.

The man on a mower at Frazier Lake Airpark killed by an airplane was a Hollister Airport Commissioner.

Sheriff's authorities Thursday afternoon found an adult male's body off Panoche Road and suspect he was the victim of a shooting homicide, a department spokesman confirmed.