Crime

The following are some items reported on the Hollister Police Department blotter for the past week:

A 53-year-old woman had her vehicle stolen in a carjacking on Highway 129 near Aromas on Wednesday night, according to the Santa Cruz Sheriff’s Office.

County members of a youth Latino group were inside the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, D.C. for a youth seminar when police killed a woman nearby after the chase starting at the White House.

Hollister police arrested a 39-year-old Hollister man who met up with a 16-year-old girl he had met on Facebook, according to the Hollister Police Department.

Police Chief David Westrick and his family were awakened by the sound of an explosion and shaking early Friday morning at their Hollister home. With his wife and 11-year-old daughter in the Santa Ana Road house, Westrick ran toward the noise.

An adult male was stabbed to death outside Agua Azul Bar early Monday morning, according to the Hollister Police Department.

Read recent blotter items from the Hollister Police Department.

At around noon Thursday, Hollister police arrested a 20-year-old Hollister man at the skate park on suspicion of possessing a loaded firearm in a public place and for a felony warrant alleging possession of marijuana for sale.

The Hollister Police Department will use a new $39,440 grant award for such activities as drunk driving training, saturation patrols and distracted driving enforcement, according to an announcement from the HPD.

Two suspected thieves were seen driving away early this morning, Friday, in a stolen golf cart filled with stolen equipment and other items from the Spirit of Morgan Hill fastpitch softball league’s equipment shed on the San Martin Gwinn Elementary School campus, according to a janitor who witnessed the incident.