Crime

Police on Monday arrested a Hollister couple suspected of possessing methamphetamine and other drugs that had been accessible to children in their home, according to a statement from the Hollister Police Department.

The Hollister Police Department is alerting residents to a scam involving someone impersonating a police officer over the phone.

Read a roundup of police blotter items from the Hollister Police Department.

Authorities have released the identity of the Hollister woman killed in Saturday’s accident in the city.

A small school bus carrying a half-dozen elementary school children was involved in an accident at about 2:30 p.m. Thursday at a San Benito Street intersection, while there were no apparent injuries.

Police arrested three men Thursday suspected of drug possession and sales in a McDonald’s parking lot, according to a statement from the Hollister Police Department.

A routine patrol check last Thursday resulted in two arrests on suspected drug charges, according to the Hollister Police Department. Those same two suspects were among six people arrested on suspected drug charges days earlier in the same vehicle, according to the HPD.

Read the latest police blotter items from the Hollister Police Department.

Read the latest from the Hollister Police Department's crime reports.

The suspect in Friday's encounter with sheriff's deputies – which led to a nearby school being locked down – is a lecturer with the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey.