Crime Reports

CENTRAL COAST — In downtown Salinas on Aug. 19 — joined by several dozen Central Coast elected officials, law enforcement leaders, business owners and local and state lawmakers — Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas championed historic new retail theft laws that will protect business owners,...

UPDATE: Delgado was located at a fast-food restaurant in Nipomo on June 26. He was taken into custody and transported back to Salinas Valley State Prison. SOLEDAD — California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation officials are searching for a minimum-security inmate who walked away from...

Police Reports are obtained from the local police departments. KING CITY Jan. 171:00 a.m. DUI on N Vanderhurst Av.10:20 a.m. Misdemeanor bench warrant on Broadway St. Jan. 1810:04 a.m. Child abuse on N Mildred Av.3:26 p.m. Missing juvenile (recovered) on Divina Wy. Jan. 1912:25 p.m. APS Referral...

SALINAS VALLEY — Monterey County Sheriff’s Office and King City Police Department investigators announced Thursday that they have developed information connecting the deadly mass shooting in King City and the double homicide near Soledad. On March 3, 11 residents were shot during a mass shooting...

SOLEDAD — A Soledad High School senior who was set to graduate in June died this past weekend after ingesting a lethal dose of fentanyl. “Over the weekend our community suffered another tragedy due to a narcotic overdose,” Soledad Police said on social media Monday. Officers...

GONZALES — A Gonzales man was sentenced to nearly 20 years in prison after he was found guilty of stabbing animals inside a school property in February 2023, Monterey County prosecutors said. Jose Jesse Marquez, 31, was handed a jail term of 19 years and...

Police briefs are obtained from the local Police Departments.

GREENFIELD — Local emergency personnel responded to a vehicle-versus-pedestrian traffic collision on Saturday night in the 500 block of Elm Avenue in Greenfield. The driver — 41-year-old Araceli Espinoza of Greenfield — was operating a vehicle while under the influence of drugs when she struck...

Police Reports are obtained from the local police departments. KING CITY Aug. 101:02 p.m. Unlicensed driver on Broadway St.2:14 p.m. Stop sign violation on Ellis St.2:39 p.m. Driving without a license on Broadway St.3:00 p.m. Hit-and-Run on Broadway St.5:51 p.m. Loud music complaint on N....