Crime, Fire & Courts

A Las Vegas man was arrested Friday after leading police on a chase with a 3-year-old in the vehicle. Capitola police did not name the 41-year-old suspect.  But the Santa Cruz County inmate locator shows that Jacob Blake Miller, 41, was charged with evading officers, obstructing...

The California Highway Patrol has issued an Amber Alert for a 14-year-old girl connected to the investigation into the death of a newborn found near Watsonville last month. The Monterey County Sheriff’s Office announced Saturday that it is searching for Diana Galvez Ortega and her...

This story was updated with information about the arrest of the driver. A former version of this story had the name of the store misspelled. Three people were hurt when an SUV plowed through the front of the 98 Cents Store on Freedom Boulevard Friday. Edwin...

An investigation that began with a traffic stop accelerated when investigators found multiple firearms, firearm suppressors, high-capacity magazines, ammunition, firearm manufacturing components and methamphetamine in a Monterey County residence. Richard Orin Johnson was charged with manufacture or possession of an undetectable firearm, assembling a firearm...

A Watsonville man was arrested Friday morning after he reportedly threatened people with a knife. Juan Carlos Aparicio, 23, was arrested and booked into the Santa Cruz County Jail, where he is facing charges for brandishing a weapon, trespassing, possession of drug paraphernalia, and resisting...

Editor's note: This story has been updated with a statement from Monte Vista Christian School. A former Monte Vista Christian School teacher was arrested Aug. 14 on suspicion of committing a lewd or lascivious act on a child who is 14 or 15. Jacob Lee, 28,...

A 19-year-old UC Santa Cruz student who died after a car plunged off West Cliff Drive and landed upside down in the ocean Aug. 13 has been identified by a family member as Alli Renee Singh. Singh’s aunt, Monica Singh-Strohmeier, identified her in a Facebook...

Four men were arrested during a multi-agency undercover operation targeting individuals allegedly using the internet to seek sexual contact with minors, Monterey County Sheriff’s Commander Andres Rosas said Tuesday. Arrested were Omar Rivera Hernandez, 28, of Gilroy; Luis Cruz Jr., 32, of Marina; Andrew Jesus...

Emergency officials deal with a two-vehicle crash on Highway 1 Tuesday afternoon. The California Highway Patrol said a white Ford SUV with several people aboard collided with an Isuzu flatbed truck with a male driver around 1pm on southbound Highway 1 just south of...