Crime, Fire & Courts

The public is invited to National Night Out, a series of gatherings held in communities throughout Santa Cruz County on Aug. 5 from 3-7pm. National Night Out Against Crime is a chance for people to meet the police officers, firefighters and first-responders who help them...

Watsonville Police on Tuesday arrested a registered sex offender after he allegedly followed and inappropriately touched a 17-year-old girl. Kenneth Wilder, 31, has been charged with assault with intent to commit rape, stalking, annoying or molesting a minor and sexual battery.  As a registered sex offender,...

Monterey County Sheriff’s Office detectives have arrested an 18-year-old Greenfield resident in connection with the Nov. 2 shooting on Jetty Road in Moss Landing that claimed the lives of two teenagers. Donald William Breeden of Greenfield faces two counts of murder with criminal street gang...

An 81-year-old woman suffered major injuries early Monday after she was struck by an SUV in a hit-and-run crash that led to an arrest two days later of a 78-year-old woman. The victim was walking across Cynthia Drive at Tuttle Avenue around 6:30am in the...

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...

​​Law enforcement officials in Monterey County rescued a possibly suicidal man who was threatening to jump off the  San Miguel Canyon Road overpass on Sunday. According to the Monterey County Sheriff’s Office, deputies responded to assist the California Highway Patrol for a report of a...

Kimberly LaBore, who has spent more than two decades behind bars for her part in a 1998 robbery and killing—and who was sentenced to 62 years to life for the crime—has been granted parole. Gov. Jerry Brown in 2017 commuted that sentence to a 20-year...

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...

A Felton woman died early Saturday morning in a head-on crash on Highway 9 north of Felton.  The California Highway Patrol said the 80-year-old woman was driving a red 1967 Volkswagen Beetle northbound on Hwy 9 at an undetermined speed around 8:20am.  Meanwhile, a 24-year-old Santa...

Watsonville Police respond to a three-vehicle crash Wednesday on Green Valley Road at Freedom Boulevard. Watsonville Police said that around 2:50pm a man driving a Honda Accord (right) southbound on Green Valley Road appeared to have lost control of his sedan and plowed into...