Crime

The San Benito County Sheriff's Office is warning residents of a large Internal Revenue Service phone scam going on since March.

A Hollister man accused in a series of arson cases has accepted a plea deal in the matters and was sentenced to 12 years in prison, according to authorities.

Hollister Police Chief David Westrick on Monday said the "suspicious death" case from Christmas Eve is not classified as a homicide as of yet.

Police have identified the victim found early Wednesday in a possible homicide.

Hollister police have identified and arrested one of the shoplifting suspects recently caught on camera.

The Hollister man suspected of sexually assaulting two juvenile teenagers between 2002 and 2005 was arraigned Tuesday on suspicion of 42 counts of various sexual assault charges, according to the sheriff's office.

Read the latest blotter items from the Hollister Police Department.

A regional Boy Scouts of America official released a statement and then responded in an interview following the arrest of Joseph Alvarado, a Hollister emergency medical services specialist booked on suspicion of sexually assaulting two teenage boys between 2002 and 2005.

The county emergency medical services specialist accused of sexually assaulting two teenage boys between 2002 and 2005 was a local Boy Scouts troop leader until Friday and recently advised teenage members of the Career Explorer Program at the Hollister Fire Department.

Local emergency crews have responded to a couple of crashes, fallen trees and flooding issues in the early hours of Thursday's storm, Police Chief David Westrick said.