Crime

Many volunteers from several agencies helped in a “Mock Search and Rescue” event held Sunday at Hollister Hills. See photos from the gathering here.

Hollister police were forced to use a Taser on a man suspected to have been combative with a knife in the Mission Oaks Mobile Home Park.

A house was severely damaged in a fire Thursday night on Hollister's west side.

On Saturday, the Facebook group Hollister Community Watch – supported by the Hollister Police Department – held a Community Clean-up event in Hollister targeting three areas of the community, according to an announcement from police.

The former Hollister martial arts instructor accused of sexually assaulting a juvenile girl is scheduled for a preliminary examination Sept. 30, according to court records.

Local drug enforcement authorities recovered an estimated 25,000 marijuana plants hidden in legal row crops on a property just outside Hollister.

David J. Quiroz, the Hollister man accused in the killing of 25-year-old Heather Carroll in October 2012, is scheduled for a jury trial in January.

Calfire has announced that billing is starting for the second year of the special fire fee for rural areas. The state agency also included information on resources to help residents pay those bills, according to an announcement from the organization.

A giant tree limb crashed down onto a parked car in the Nob Hill parking lot Thursday afternoon, while nobody was in the vehicle at the time.

The state has awarded San Benito County a grant worth more than $15 million to use on a jail expansion project expected to add about 60 beds and ease local pressures from prison overcrowding.