Update: Dead body found buried along Pajaro River identified
The Monterey County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a body that was found along the Pajaro River levee west of the Main Street Bridge that connects the community of Pajaro to Watsonville.
On Monday the Sheriff's Office identified the man as 36-year-old Jesus Alfonso Duarte Figueroa...
Body of Nicholas Magana-Zamora found
The body of a 15-year-old male who went missing July 23 in Watsonville in the Laken area off of Holohan Road was found in the waters of College Lake over the weekend.
Nicholas Magana-Zamora was last seen around 11am on July 23 after leaving his...
Illegal firearms seized after car stop
Local law agencies found a large stash of illegal firearms ammunition following a routine car stop.
According to the California Highway Patrol, officers in April stopped a vehicle for a traffic violation in Santa Cruz County. The officers learned that the driver had a suspended...
Convicted murderer Kimberly LaBore paroled
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...
Homemade bomb shuts down Freedom Boulevard
A lengthy stretch of Freedom Boulevard was shut down Tuesday evening after Santa Cruz County Sheriff's deputies discovered a pipe bomb in a car.
The incident started around 4pm when deputies conducted a traffic stop near the 2600 block of Freedom Boulevard. The deputy’s K9...
Construction to close Main Street intermittently
Construction work has begun on Main Street, between 5th Street and E. Lake Avenue, which will mean occasional closures, Watsonville officials said.
Work will take place from 9am to 3pm, Sept. 2 through Oct. 3. Both northbound and southbound lanes of Main Street will have...
Watsonville Police arrest group in huge fireworks and gun haul
Watsonville Police rounded up nearly 1,000 pounds of illegal fireworks after they uncovered a group of people—including a teenager—suspected of selling dangerous fireworks in Watsonville and across Santa Cruz, San Benito, and Monterey counties.
Watsonville Police spokeswoman Michelle Pulido said an investigation led them to...
Homicide suspect arrested in Switzerland
A Santa Cruz man was arrested recently in Switzerland in connection with the death of his father, 90-year-old Robert Smallwood.
K9 officer helps in arrest of felon with guns, drugs
Monterey County Sheriff’s deputies on Sunday arrested a Pacific Grove man with a WWII-era machine gun described as a “weapon of mass destruction.”
Brian Richard Knabb, 42, also had a loaded .45 caliber pistol and a loaded 1911 A-1 pistol, sheriff’s deputies said.
In addition, he...
Watsonville man arrested in sexual assault
A 19-year-old Watsonville man has been arrested for allegedly kidnapping and sexually assaulting an underage girl.
Christopher Medina Amezquita was arrested in Capitola with help from Capitola Police, the Santa Cruz County Anti-Crime Team and the Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s Office.
He was booked into Santa Cruz...
25TH Amendment assumes center stage
At a July 8 NATO press conference, President Trump claimed that the Islamic Republic of Japan had shot 111 missiles at aircraft carrier U.S.S....





















