Police Blotter: Possession of narcotics, paraphernalia reported
Read the Hollister Police Department blotter from the past two weeks.
Police need help ID’ing suspect in food bank burglary
Hollister police need the public's help in identifying a suspect from a burglary last Friday at the Community Food Bank building on San Felipe Road.
DA adds third suspected victim in case against teacher from Hollister
Authorities added another suspected victim to the criminal complaint against Paradise Valley Elementary School teacher John Loyd, 52 of Hollister, and a judge denied the suspected child molester’s request to reduce bail at an Oct. 20 hearing.Â
Loyd remains in custody at Santa Clara County Jail with no bail on charges that he sexually assaulted three female victims. At least one of the children was a student at Paradise Valley who alleged being assaulted by Loyd in his fifth-grade classroom, according to authorities.
Investigators have declined to release any further information about the other two victims.
Loyd pleaded not guilty to a total of five charges at the Monday hearing at South County Courthouse, where Superior Court Judge Alfonso Fernandez heard and denied his request to reduce bail.Â
With the latest charge added to the list of allegations against Loyd on Monday, he now faces five counts of lewd and lascivious acts with a child, according to the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office. Each charge carries a penalty of 15 years to life in prison.Â
Loyd was arrested by Morgan Hill police Oct. 2, after a student at Paradise Valley alleged to another staff member that the teacher made inappropriate contact with her.Â
The ongoing investigation has found that Loyd made similar contact with two other students, according to authorities.Â
Loyd has been a teacher at MHUSD since 2000. He has taught at Paradise Valley Elementary School since 2008.
The Morgan Hill Unified School District placed Loyd on administrative leave immediately after his arrest, according to MHUSD staff. As of his first court appearance Oct. 7, that leave has been unpaid.Â
Loyd’s next hearing is scheduled for Nov. 13 to set a preliminary hearing date.
Late woman’s family sues Hollister skydiving outfit
The parents of a Tulare business leader who died two years ago
Updated: Police continue investigating ‘scenario’ in school suspect’s writings
Hollister police have arrested two San Benito High School
Sheriff’s blotter: Nearly $1K in gas stolen from tank
At 7:40 p.m. Friday, grand theft was reported on the 1500 block
Alejo’s bill aiming to ban ‘Redskins’ passes committee
Assemblyman Luis Alejo's bill aiming to ban the use of "Redskins" as a public school mascot name in California has passed one committee at the State Senate level, according to his office.
County omission caused delay to law enforcement study
County and city leaders expect a consultant to finish the study
