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SANTA CRUZ - Three Salvadoran gang members accused of running drugs will be prosecuted by the feds, the District Attorney’s Office reported Thursday. Local prosecutor Charlie Baum said he dropped c...
Three mental health workers affiliated with the county’s American Red Cross chapter have been sent to help at natural disasters. Frances Rinaldo was deployed to the Jesusita Fire in Santa Barbara. ...
Sheriff’s deputies responding to break up a fight at the Felton Fair Shopping Center just before 10 a.m. Monday inadvertently busted a suspected drug dealer, according to Sgt. Greg Lansdowne. Nicho...
SANTA CRUZ — A UC Santa Cruz student accused of felony animal cruelty for allegedly throwing a Chihuahua into a Westside ravine will have a preliminary hearing June 29, according to the District At...
LA SELVA BEACH - A deputy looking for drug paraphernalia in a car where five teenagers allegedly had been smoking pot discovered a loaded handgun and arrested one of the teens, the Sheriff’s Office...
ELKHORN Fake sheriff’s log: Spaceship reported vandalized It wasn’t your typical vehicle burglary. Nothing taken from the glove box. No sound system ripped from the dashboard. Then again it wasn’t ...
SOQUEL - Sheriff’s deputies on Monday arrested a woman allegedly running a drug house across the street from Main Street Elementary School. Sgt. Stephan Fish responded to reports of a drug activity...
WATSONVILLE — Police are seeking a 16-19-year-old male who shot into an inhabited apartment building on Ross Avenue Sunday night. According to investigators, the shooter fired three rounds into win...
WATSONVILLE — A former Watsonville farm manager convicted of molesting a 4-year-old girl may spend the rest of his life in state prison, a judge ruled Friday morning. During a speedy hearing, Judge...
A 20-year-old Watsonville man was arrested on suspicion of vandalism and gang participation Tuesday after he was caught tagging on the Harkins Slough Road bridge near Watsonville Slough, police sai...
BOULDER CREEK — High winds and downed trees kept San Lorenzo Valley fire and PG&E crews busy Tuesday afternoon. Between 4 p.m. and 5 p.m., they responded to seven reports of trees taking down power...
A man suffering from four stab wounds was dropped off at Watsonville Community Hospital around 2 a.m. Monday, but was unable to give police much information about what had happened to him. The man,...
A Santa Cruz man wanted for attempted murder was arrested at gunpoint in an alley near Barson and Campbell streets on Monday afternoon. Manuel Ayala allegedly shot at an inhabited car in 2006, poli...
AROMAS — One person is trapped inside a vehicle after a head-on collision on Highway 129 near the county line, the California Highway Patrol reported. A pickup and a silver BMW collided, causing th...
Updated: 3 p.m. SANTA CRUZ - A Santa Cruz police detective was run down when a man driving a stolen car charged him, knocking him down in the parking lot of the Valero gas station on the 1500 block...
SOQUEL — A deputy spotted a suspected drug sale in the parking lot of Taco Bell on 41st Avenue on Sunday evening and arrested a suspected heroin dealer who had a small amount of drugs and thousands...
WATSONVILLE — A judge again postponed the sentencing of former farm manager Virgilio “Hilo” Yepez, who was convicted of child molestation by a jury in February. Yepez, 51, faces 23 years to life in...
A Davenport man was badly hurt when he crashed his sport utility vehicle into a bridge guardrail on Highway 1 on Monday morning, the California Highway Patrol reported. The 50-year-old man was driv...
SANTA CRUZ — A man suspected in three bank robberies in the county this year was arrested during the weekend, police reported. James Archuleta, 29, was still stained with red ink from a dye pack hi...
By WATSONVILLE — The owner of La Tiendita Market remained hospitalized Thursday and is listed as stable after he was stabbed while chasing a man who stole a 12-pack of beer from the store, police s...
A 21-year-old man was arrested Friday after a sheriff’s search dog found drugs in a hidden compartment of a dashboard during a traffic stop, Watsonville police said. Jesus Arnoldo Guzman was pulled...
WATSONVILLE - Police are investigating the death of man at Caesars’ Club Bar on Sunday night but say foul play is not suspected. The man, Oscar Perez Cruz, 33, had been sitting at the bar, located ...
SANTA CRUZ - A man was stabbed several times in the upper torso during a gang-related attack at the Metro Center on Pacific Avenue late Wednesday, police reported. The man told police he was jumped...
SANTA CRUZ — A report of smoke on the fifth floor of the Palomar Inn on the 1300 block Pacific Avenue prompted the evacuation of the building around 5:30 p.m. Police and fire crews blocked off Paci...
IONE - One of two men convicted of the 1975 murder of a Capitola waitress was denied parole this week, the District Attoreny’s Office reported. Vincent Regan and his accomplice, Orrin “Buzz” Carr, ...
APTOS - Santa Cruz Sheriff’s Office detectives continue to investigate the death of a man found near Aptos Creek on Tuesday afternoon. The man was a 40-year-old local transient. His name has not be...
APTOS — A 25-year-old woman allegedly driving a stolen vehicle tried to stall, then elude sheriff’s deputies Monday night, but was caught anyway. The incident started around 10 p.m. when a deputy p...
SCOTTS VALLEY - Three salons in Scotts Valley were cited Wednesday for allegedly not having the state-required worker’s compensation insurance for their employees and no having a proper operating l...
SAN LORENZO VALLEY - A bank account has been established for the relatives of the Brookdale woman who died Monday when she crashed her car into a redwood tree on Highway 9 near the Boulder Creek Co...
WATSONVILLE - A motorcyclist and a minivan collided head-on on the 100 block of Aviation Way near Airport Boulevard around 4:40 p.m. on Thursday. The male motorcyclist was flown to a trauma center ...
WATSONVILLE - Police arrested two more men this week who are suspected of being involved in a gang-related drive by near River Park in January. Rogelio Castillo was arrested around 5:30 p.m. Tuesda...
WATSONVILLE - A woman using a bad check and a phony ID purchased a $5,500 van from a used car dealership last month, police reported. Police are considering the incident a stolen vehicle because th...
APTOS - A Seaside man was badly hurt Sunday when he lost control of his car on northbound Highway 1 and hit a steel guardrail around 11 a.m., the California Highway Patrol reported. When the man’s ...
SANTA CRUZ - A San Jose man led police on a high speed chase from Santa Cruz to mid-county Wednesday night that ended abruptly when the man’s car crashed through a metal gate on East Cliff Drive. D...
Updated 11:45 a.m. Thursday BROOKDALE — One woman was flown to Stanford Medical Center after she crashed her car into a power pole near Brookdale on Thursday morning. The collision happened on High...
updated: 11:24 a.m. APTOS – An 18-month-old baby fell out of a second-story window at a home on Santa Marguarita Drive just after 7 a.m. Thursday, but didn’t appear to be badly hurt, fire offici...
updated 7 p.m. Wednesday WATSONVILLE - A man in his early 20s was stabbed in the stomach during an altercation with two men he knew Wednesday evening, but police said his injuries were not life-thr...
SANTA CRUZ - The Watsonville man accused of manslaughter in connection with a fatal fist fight in Watsonville earlier this month bailed out of jail, his attorney said Wednesday. Jason Lomeli, 23, p...
APTOS — The woman killed in a single-car crash Sunday on Highway 1 was Rachael Presse, 28, of Burlingame, the Coroner’s Office reported Tuesday. Presse was a passenger in a 2001 Acura driven by a 2...
SANTA CRUZ — A man who picked up two prostitutes — but then changed his mind and tried to leave — got into a fight with two men associated with the prostitutes and was car-jacked early Friday. Poli...
WATSONVILLE — One man has been arrested in connection with a fistfight outside of the Applebee’s restaurant on South Green Valley Road late Friday that led to the death of a 24-year-old Watsonville...
REDWOOD CITY Man accused of threatening scientists gets jail A judge has sentenced a Capitola man to six months in jail for allegedly threatening scientists who use animals for research. Prosecutor...
By Jennifer Squires jsquires@santacruzsentinel.com SANTA CRUZ — A marathon 10-week trial for a man accused of a gang-motivated shooting on Highway 1 more than two years ago wrapped up Tuesday and i...
UPDATED AT 6:11 P.M. By Jennifer Squires jsquires@santacruzsentinel.com WATSONVILLE — A third man has been arrested in connection with the January murder of a Mexican man in Watsonville. Cristobal ...
A third man has been arrested in connection with the January murder of a Mexican man in Watsonville. Cristobal Ramirez, 19, turned himself in to the sheriff’s office on Monday. He’s being held in C...
SANTA CRUZ - A man was arrested after he came close to snatching a police officer’s gun from his holster during a scuffle on the Westside on Sunday night, police reported. Two officers were called ...
An electrical fire early Monday gutted a garage and damaged sheds and greenhouses on the 200 block of Lewis Road. The smoke and flames were visible for miles as firefighters pulled up to the scene ...
SANTA CRUZ - The Santa Cruz transient killed in Highway 1 crash last month has been identified as Antonio Nava, 29, according to Santa Cruz police. Nava was hit by two cars when he tried to get acr...
SANTA CRUZ - Police think they’ve cracked a large auto burglary case and have arrests warrants for two men they suspect are responsible for a string of car break-ins in the city. The burglaries, mo...
updated 4:20 p.m. One person was arrested on suspicion of possessing a stolen firearm when deputies responded to a report of gunshots and screams in the Soquel Hills on Monday morning. A neighbor c...
Police on Sunday were still trying to figure out why a 61-year-old Santa Cruz man drove his car more than 70 mph down a quiet residential street, through a chicken coop, over a deep gully and into ...
Photo contributed by Neal Swanson A car caught fire in the parking lot at the DeLaveaga Golf Course driving range Thursday morning, but firefighters were able to confine the blaze to the vehicle a...
Watsonville - An alleged gang member suspected in a drive-by shooting near River Park on Tuesday afternoon turned himself in to police Wednesday, according to police. Abraham Sanchez, 20, of Watson...
Updated 6 p.m. Wednesday WATSONVILLE - Police arrested the man they suspected was behind the wheel of a sport utility vehicle involved in a drive-by shooting close to River Park on Tuesday afternoo...
Santa Cruz - A transient allegedly hit a man in the face when the man and his friends refused to give up a Pacific Avenue bench Tuesday afternoon, police reported. Jeremy Davis, 29, approached thre...
A transient under court order to stay away from the downtown corridor was arrested Monday night after he allegedly caused a disturbance on the 1100 block of Pacific Avenue, police reported. Michael...
The Scotts Valley man killed when the car in which he was riding was broadsided on Highway 17 on Sunday was as Jesse Leon, according to the Coroner’s Office. Leon, 30, was declared dead at the scen...
A 30-year-old Scotts Valley man died in a wreck on Highway 17 on Sunday evening, the third fatal car crash in the county during the weekend. The man was a passenger in a southbound 2009 Scion that ...
LA SELVA BEACH - Sheriff’s deputies arrested two La Selva Beach teenagers suspected of breaking into two surfers’ vehicles and stealing $600 cash Thursday morning. Apparently, Noah Thomas Johnson a...
PAJARO VALLEY- Sheriff’s deputies arrested two sisters early Friday on suspicion they neglected and abused their elderly mother. A third sister, who was also a caregiver for their mother, is wante...
WATSONVILLE - Two Watsonville men accused of holding up pharmacies to get cash and drugs pleaded guilty to robbery charges Friday, the District Attorney’s Office announced. Santiago Madrigal, 24, a...
SANTA CRUZ - Two plainclothes police officers and the department’s street crimes unit ran an undercover sting aimed at netting prostitutes in the lower Ocean Street area on Thursday night, police r...
SANTA CRUZ — A man found killed in a Pajaro Valley berry field earlier this month was stabbed dozens of times by a Watsonville gang leader and other gang members, District Attorney Bob Lee said. Le...
SOQUEL - A garden shed at the Mountain Elementary School was destroyed by fire early Wednesday, according to Central Fire Protection District. Someone called 911 around 1:50 p.m. to report 6-foot-h...
NORTH MONTEREY COUNTY - An elderly Gilroy woman died Tuesday. She was a passenger a car on Highway 101 that broadsided a car that pulled out in front of it, the California Highway Patrol reported. ...
WATSONVILLE Police arrested three people after at least one allegedly tried rob a teenage couple at knife-point Tuesday night. Apparently, the trio approached a man and woman, both 18, on the 18...
Police on Tuesday were investigating a report of shots fired near New School on Harkins Slough Road around noon. Apparently, witnesses reported a man armed with a black revolver fired shots from a ...
WATSONVILLE — Two cousins have been arrested in connection with the killing of a 35-year-old Mexican man outside of Watsonville earlier this month, the Sheriff’s Office reported Tuesday morning. Jo...
CORRALITOS — A world champion cyclist was recovering Monday after she hit a pickup head-on and dislocated her shoulder about a mile into a training ride Sunday afternoon. Rachel Atherton, a 21-year...
FELTON - A 65-year-old Felton man suffered a broken right arm and broken right leg after being hit by a car on Graham Hill Road around 6:20 p.m. Sunday. The California Highway Patrol and Felton Fir...
Watsonville - A man who pleaded guilty in November to molesting a young girl in the mid-1990s was sentenced Friday to 12 years in state prison, the District Attorney’s Office reported. Alejandro Ar...
SANTA CRUZ - Thursday night and early Friday, four cars in the city were broken into and police said there has been an increase in the number of vehicle burglaries in the past few weeks. The most r...
BEN LOMOND - A Boulder Creek man was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder Thursday evening after he allegedly threw a Molotov cocktail at a house during an argument among acquaintances, the Sh...
A missing developmentally disabled man was found safe Friday morning nearly 40 miles from where he lives, the Sheriff’s Office reported. Ted Kryger, 49, walked away from the Corralitos adult care f...
BEN LOMOND - Someone apparently threw a Molotov cocktail through the window of a Glen Arbor Road home during a fight outside the house Thursday evening, according to emergency dispatchers. The inci...
SANTA CRUZ - A Santa Cruz police officer riding a motorcycle was struck by a car in the intersection of Laurel and Center streets at 2:35 p.m. today.The officer was knocked off his motorcycle, but ...
SANTA CRUZ - Police arrested a man suspected of burglarizing an unoccupied home Wednesday night after neighbors called 911 when they heard breaking glass. Around 10:45 p.m., officers were sent to t...
SANTA CRUZ - A Santa Cruz man walked away from a single-car crash the left a street sign embedded in the driver’s side door of his black Toyota Celica, but then was arrested on suspicion of driving...
Updated 6:20 p.m. Wednesday. One person was pinned in a RV that flipped on northbound Highway 17 just past Scotts Valley around 5:40 p.m. Wednesday, the California Highway Patrol reported. The acc...
CORRALITOS — Authorities continue to look for a developmentally disabled man who walked away Dec. 28 from the Corralitos are facility where he had lived for nearly 15 years. Ted Kryger, 49, likes t...
SANTA CRUZ — Police reported Wednesday that a 65-year-old Santa Cruz man reported missing by his family visited a bank in Monterey County on Jan. 5 and appeared to be in good health. “He’s fine, so...
A string of possibly gang-related shootings across the county Monday night and Tuesday are not connected, police said Wednesday. “They weren’t related,” Sgt. Saul Gonzalez of Watsonville police sai...
UPDATED 5 p.m. Wednesday SANTA CRUZ — Two men were Tuesday night on Pacific Avenue on suspicion of battery, police reported. About 10:30 p.m., officers responded to a fight with multiple people in ...
WATSONVILLE — A group of men in one car fired at least three shots from a small-caliber handgun at another vehicle on San Andreas Road around 2 p.m. Tuesday, the Sheriff’s Office reported. No one w...
In a mass search for clues in a recent gang-related shooting, 60 police officers served search warrants at five homes of suspected gang members Tuesday morning, Watsonville Deputy Police Chief Mann...
SANTA CRUZ — Police are asking for the public’s help in locating a Santa Cruz man missing since Dec. 17. Albert “Roy” Fillman, 65, was reported missing by his family after he failed to show up for ...
SANTA CRUZ - Police are looking for a man who shot at a group of men working on a car on Chestnut Street on Monday night. Santa Cruz police say about 9 p.m. on the 100 block of Chestnut Street, a L...
Sheriff’s detectives continue to search for the man who held up a Rio del Mar Shopping Center bank just before closing time Friday. The robber entered US Bank minutes before 6 p.m., flashed a black...
SANTA CRUZ - Gang investigators arrested five people suspected of possessing weapons or illegal drugs, and contacted numerous suspected gang members during a special enforcement Friday, Santa Cruz ...
WATSONVILLE — A convenience store clerk trying to prevent a robbery early Wednesday morning was stabbed in the head by two assailants, but the would-be robbers didn’t get any cash, police reported....
APTOS — A woman riding a bike while high on drugs suffered serious injuries when she veered in front of a car on a highway overpass and was hit Thursday morning, the California Highway Patrol repor...
A man reported that someone stole a $100 bill from him while he was trying to buy some marijuana Tuesday afternoon, police said. The man was in the 200 block of Riverside Avenue about 2 p.m. when h...
A man was robbed at 9:30 p.m. Monday on Ford Street in Watsonville, police said. The man told officers that three men grabbed him around the neck and began hitting him and demanding money. The vict...
A 19-year-old man was arrested Monday at a Thompson Avenue residence after Santa Cruz police found a cache of stolen goods there while serving a search warrant, investigators said. Officers were in...
Sheriff’s deputies have no suspects in a break-in on commercial agriculture property belonging to Driscoll’s Strawberry Associates on Silliman Road in Watsonville. The door was pried open and windo...
A Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s deputy on foot patrol caught a man in possession of stolen electronics at the end of Corcoran Avenue on Sunday. The deputy spotted a man going through a backpack that ...
SANTA CRUZ — In the time it takes to send an e-mail, city residents who need to report a stolen car radio, harassing phone calls or theft to police now can file the report online instead of waiting...
The Cops and Courts blog has had some ups and downs in 2008. We’ve broken some news here, and the blog has also gone quiet at times. Here’s the plan here for 2009. Every day, Sentinel reporters tou...
Three inmates were arrested on suspicion of being under the influence at the county’s minimum security Rountree jail early Wednesday, after deputies allegedly found them with a hypodermic needle an...
A 50-year-old man was hurt when he was hit by a car near Radcliffe Elementary School on Monday afternoon. The man, who was not was found laying in the street around 3 p.m. Apparently, he was hit by...
CAPITOLA — A man got home just in time to interrupt two burglars ransacking his home Saturday night and detained one of the would-be thieves until police arrived. Police suspect four people were in...
A 16-year-old boy was flown to a Bay Area trauma center after being stabbed Saturday night at Ridgeview Drive and Hammer Drive, according to Watsonville police. The boy received multiple stab wound...
WATSONVILLE — Sheriff’s deputies worked through the night to and arrest one of the men suspected in at least two armed robberies on the streets of Live Oak and Capitola on Wednesday night. Eudora M...
Officials at the Ben Lomond Conservation Camp said Wednesday they think two inmates who escaped from the minimum-security facility Sunday night are still in Santa Cruz County. William Boggs, 36, an...
SANTA CRUZ— Sheriff’s detectives arrested two people suspected of burglarizing garages and vehicles in Santa Cruz Gardens and elsewhere in the county, but are still trying to ascertain how many peo...
HECKER PASS — A Watsonville man died Monday morning when his car veered off a windy, mountain road and hit a tree. The man was traveling east on Highway 152 near Mount Madonna when he missed a curv...
BEN LOMOND — Two inmates escaped from the Ben Lomond Conservation Camp late Sunday, prison authorities reported Monday morning. The two men, both convicted of property crimes, walked away from the ...
A Santa Cruz man walking down California Street was accosted by three men, robbed and stabbed in the shoulder Thursday night, police reported. The trio reportedly made a gang-related statement duri...
Police arrested four suspected drug users during the raid of a known drug house on the 300 block of lower Broadway late Thursday morning in Santa Cruz. The bust marked the culmination of an ongoing...
A Cabrillo College student accused of perjury pleaded guilty Thursday to a lesser charge, was sentenced to the jail time he already served and placed on probation for two years. Nathan Knoerl, also...
CAPITOLA — Three unarmed men robbed a 41st Avenue bank Thursday afternoon, authorities reported. One man has been arrested by sheriff’s deputies, but police are still searching for the other two ro...
Santa Cruz sheriff’s deputies said a man with a rifle sitting on the rocks off 26th Avenue and East Cliff Drive on Wednesday afternoon alarmed passersby, but wasn’t really breaking the law. Just be...
Updated: 5:20 p.m. SANTA CRUZ — An intoxicated cyclist was badly hurt when he missed a turn on Mission Street, flipped over a road divider and landed under a stopped vehicle just after 4:30 p.m. Wi...
SANTA CRUZ — Police arrested a 27-year-old Santa Cruz transient late Tuesday on suspicion of robbing a Best Western hotel clerk while armed with a pellet gun. Officers arrested Kyle Everrett Knapp ...
A 23-year-old man was beaten with sticks and baseball bats about 7:45 p.m. Sunday on Walker Street, in Watsonville according to police. He suffered lacerations on his head and nose. Police are inve...
Mateo Marquis, the man convicted of killing an Arizona teen at a beach bonfire in Live Oak in June 2007, was sentence to seven years by Judge Samuel Stevens on Monday. Marquis pleaded guilty to ma...
CAPITOLA - Two people were was stabbed during a fight outside the Capitola Mall on Friday afternoon, authorities reported. The bloody altercation occurred on the Sears side of the mall near Capitol...
WATSONVILLE – A teenager was stabbed on California Street around 4:45 p.m. Thursday, emergency dispatchers reported. A 14-year-old boy suffered a puncture wound to his back. Police, fire and medics...
A drunk driver rear-ended a police cruiser early Thursday, totaling the car and his own pickup, police reported. Officers were near Bay Street and Lighthouse Avenue around 1:45 a.m. to investigate ...
WATSONVILLE –Two gang members accused of killing a father-to-be in a random act of violence will face murder charges at trial, a judge ruled Thursday. Eduardo Valdivias Rodriguez, 28, and Jose Ange...
Nicholas Steven Yeager, 29, of Felton, pleaded not guilty today on a long list of felony charges after his arrest on suspicion of drunken driving and causing a fatal head-on collision on East Zayan...
The driver arrested on suspicion of driving drunk and causing a fatal head-on collision last week will be arraigned on a long list of felony charges Thursday morning. Nicholas Steven Yeager, 29, of...
APTOS — Burglars struck at least nine homes in the beach area of Aptos during Thanksgiving week, according to the Sheriff’s Office. The thieves targeted jewelry and cash, while leaving behind other...
A home was completely destroyed by a fire in Santa Cruz County this morning, according to a Cal Fire dispatcher. The structure fire was reported at about 1:40 a.m. in the Bonny Doon area of the cou...
Monterey County sheriff’s deputies tazed a 50-year-old Prunedale woman who was attempting to slice her wrists with an 8-inch steak knife late Saturday night. The woman, whose name was not released,...
James Barany, the former San Jose teacher accused of soliciting a teenage girl online for sex, pleaded not guilty Wednesday. Barany, 37, allegedly pursued what he thought was a 13-year-old girl in ...
A Sheriff’s Office supervisor working an extra patrol shift on the North Coast caught a suspected car burglar Saturday evening. The deputy was dealing with a motorist he had pulled over when anothe...
A suspicious package found at the front of a driveway turned out to be box containing a mannequin, the Sheriff’s Office Bomb Team discovered Wednesday evening. A resident on the 400 block of Browns...
Police arrested a 35-year-old transient early today after a man reported seeing two people opening the doors of cars parked along the street in Beach Flats. Officers searched the area and saw Justi...
A police officer suffered minor injuries when he arrested two men allegedly doing a drug deal near Coral Street and Highway 9 on Monday evening. The officer, who wasn’t was doing a routine patrol a...
Police early today arrested a man suspected of burglarizing and vandalizing a Soquel Avenue business. Officers responded to a report of vandalism at the business on the 300 block of the street arou...
Three Watsonville teenagers were arrested on suspicion of a gang-motivated assault on Wednesday afternoon, police reported. Just before 5 p.m., the teens apparently confronted a 30-year-old Watsonv...
Anti-Semitic graffiti was found on one wall of the Cedar Street double-decker parking garage on Wednesday afternoon, police reported. The area was also vandalized in June and the graffiti may be co...
Police on Wednesday morning arrested a Morgan Hill man suspected of burglarizing a restaurant on the 1800 block of Soquel Avenue. Officers responding to a burglar alarm at the unnamed restaurant ar...
Firefighters rescued two women and a dog from a burning house this morning. A couch on the patio of the home, which is on the 100 block of Myrtle Street, apparently caught fire and the flames sprea...
SANTA CRUZ — City parks rangers discovered a small marijuana garden in Arana Gulch on Thursday morning and arrested two teenage boys suspected of growing the pot plants, police reported. The range...
Central Fire Protection District is conducting a live burn exercise on property behind Soquel High School today. The live burn is wildland fire training for some new paid-call firefighters and also...
SANTA CRUZ — Police arrested a 35-year-old Santa Cruz man on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon after a stabbing outside a Seabright business around Tuesday night. Jason Steinberg was arrest...
The Santa Cruz Police department is asking for people to come forward to report recent car burglaries after making an arrest early Friday. The police issued the following press release: On July 18,...
The state Board of Parole decided Wednesday that a man convicted of murdering a Boulder Creek man in October 1987 will remain behind bars for at least five more years, according to the District Att...
Here’s a link to Cal Fire’s final assessment of damages for the Summit Fire, Martin Fire and Trabing Fire: http://www.czutransfer.com/2008_Damage.htm For more fire coverage, see the Sentinel’s fire...
County Supervisor Jan Beautz is hosting a community meeting on Thursday to discuss neighborhood safety, crime and gang-related issues in Live Oak. The meeting will be at 7 p.m. at the Simpkins Swim...
Sheriff’s deputies arrested two men after a road rage incident on Highway 1 turned into a machete attack and a drug bust Sunday afternoon. What started the bizarre altercation isn’t clear, but one ...
A fire destroyed a garage on the 300 block of Park Way early Monday and fire investigators are still trying to determine was sparked the blaze. At least five people called 911 when the fire broke o...
Officers are investigating a shooting that injured one man Sunday evening on East Beach Street, according to police. The shooting, on the 400 block of the street, was reported at 6:48 p.m. Officers...
Four people were stabbed over the weekend in three separate attack s in Santa Cruz and Watsonville, police reported. In Santa Cruz, two 21-year-old men suffered minor injuries when they were stabbe...
Thieves stole two ATMs from Live Oak restaurants late Thursday or early Friday, and got away with thousands of dollars in cash, the Sheriff’s Office reported. The thefts from the Aloha Grill on the...
A man with two outstanding felony warrants ran from officers who tried to pull him over late this morning in Santa Cruz. The man was caught and arrested, police reported. Officers stopped Alvin Jes...
BEN LOMOND - A dozen goats, 14 chickens and a duck have been confiscated from a Ben Lomond home after a neighbor reported two dead goats and dozens of malnourished animals. Santa Cruz County Animal...
Three men died and three others were hurt Saturday morning in a fiery wreck on Highway 129, about four miles east of Watsonville. The 8:30 a.m. collision left the highway closed for nearly five hou...
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