Crime

Gilroy Police Chief Scot Smithee, a 30-year-plus law enforcement veteran, found himself the victim of a crime when someone stole his personal vehicle April 27, according to police. The chief’s service firearm and badge, among other personal items, were inside the vehicle when it disappeared,...

New sexual assault charges filed Tuesday against 20-year-old Morgan Hill resident Nicolas Lhermine added two more children – including a 3-year-old girl – to the YMCA employee’s list of victims, authorities said.

The suspect in the July 22 murder of a 21-year-old man at Sobrato Transitional Apartments on Monterey Street is “actively avoiding” police contact – and because police have not obtained the handgun used in the shooting, he is considered armed and dangerous.

The San Benito High School District has accepted the resignation of former Superintendent John Perales, was charged with brandishing a gun at a person in a car parked outside his Greystone Court house last Oct. 22.

Since the May 3 arrest of six suspects involved in the Feb. 6

April 17 • Businesses were reportedly burglarized on the 7300 block of Monterey Street and 8600 block of San Ysidro Avenue. • A vehicle was reportedly burglarized on the first block of E. Luchessa Avenue. April 18 • A vehicle was reported stolen on the 600 block of...

Inmate Daniel Lopez Zavala, who escaped from the San Benito County Jail on May 28, was arrested in San Jose May 29 night following a regional manhunt that lasted nearly two days, authorities said.  The San Benito County Sheriff’s Office has also arrested three people...

A Hollister woman has testified that she played a role in the