The 18-year-old man arrested on Feb. 9 on a charge of involuntary manslaughter in the fentanyl overdose death of 16-year-old Seaside resident Perla Velasco-Cruz will remain in custody as he awaits future hearings, a judge ruled on Feb. 14.

The death of 16-year-old Perla Velasco in October after she took a pill laced with the deadly synthetic drug fentanyl sent shockwaves through her family, local medical professionals and law enforcement, prompting a major push to prevent more overdoses and deaths in the months that followed.

Adrienne Lara, a Greenfield High School teacher, was arrested on Tuesday, Feb. 4, by Greenfield police and booked into Monterey County Jail on charges of forgery, embezzlement, theft of public funds and altering medical records.

Prosecutors dropped a slew of new charges on the man suspected of slingshotting glass marbles at vehicles traveling along Highway 101, including allegations that he assaulted two California Highway Patrol officers just months after the attacks began.

On the Facebook page dedicated to discussing the projectile attacks that have for months terrorized drivers traveling along Highway 101 through Prunedale, there was a sense of relief at the news that the California Highway Patrol had arrested and charged a suspect.

The person or persons responsible for hurling projectiles at vehicles along Highway 101 in the Prunedale area took a brief break over the week of Christmas, but now appears to be back in business. The 65th reported incident took place on Dec. 27, with two more incidents reported on Dec. 30, …

As if sitting in bumper to bumper traffic on Highway 101 the day before Thanksgiving isn't bad enough, holiday travelers on the biggest travel day of the year also have to contend with thunderstorms and a mystery person (or persons) who's been hurling projectiles at vehicles along a stretch …

Two men have pleaded guilty to federal charges of racketeering and conspiracy to commit murder in connection to their task as enforcers of Nuestra Familia gang rules while they were inmates in Monterey County Jail. 

A pair of murder suspects who escaped from Monterey County Jail early Sunday morning in a move reminiscent of the film Shawshank Redemption were recaptured early Wednesday morning, Nov. 6, as they tried to re-enter the country from Mexico.

In the days following publication of a jointly reported story in the Monterey County Weekly, Voices of Monterey Bay and on KSBW revealing a prison gang's efforts to wield influence and positions of leadership within a Salinas organization that advocates for criminal justice reform, leadershi…

Less than a day after another overdose patient came into the emergency room of the Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula, Emergency Department Medical Director Casey Grover made a public plea on Thursday, Oct. 24, standing alongside representatives from law enforcement, fire departmen…

Monterey County health officials and law enforcement agencies were already ringing alarm bells recently about the synthetic drug fentanyl, considered 100 times stronger than oxycodone. The drug has been showing up in counterfeit pills that look like prescription opioids and is believed to be…

On April 10 of this year, after Paulino Guzman III’s stepmother begged the man who admitted killing Guzman to tell the family where they could find his body, and after the judge hearing the case also asked the defendant sitting before him to do the right thing for the sake of the grieving fa…

Just after 10:30pm on Monday, Aug. 12, a familiar sound of Car Week was heard ringing through Del Monte Forest: the loud “vroom” of a sports car speeding along the curvy roads of Pebble Beach.

Maybe he was bored. Or maybe tagging along with his parent who works for the Carmel Bach Festival wasn't his idea of a fun activity during summer vacation.

Two Monterey Peninsula men have been arrested in connection with the shooting death of Tremain Calloway in Seaside two months ago.

A 27-year-old woman pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to driving under the influence and causing a car crash that killed three people and injured a fourth, all members of the same family, on May 31.

Stewart Napier will be sentenced to prison for seven years for his part in a car wreck in December 2018 that killed one man.

Margot McNally will spend four years in prison for a 2018 car crash in Carmel Valley that killed her passenger and severely injured another driver.

A 32-year-old father of two was shot and killed while driving through Seaside on Tuesday afternoon.

Joe Hunt, 25, was a free spirit, says his dad, Bob Hunt. School and the 9-to-5 was never for Joe, nor would it ever be. He left his home in New Hampshire in January 2018, with nothing but his blue backpack and a tent. He bought his own Greyhound Bus ticket to California, a place he always dr…

A fully loaded navy-blue camping backpack stood upright in the shoulder of northbound Highway 1 in Moss Landing early Saturday morning, March 23, but it wasn't enough to alarm passing motorists.

The body of a man was found inside a burned out unit of Army housing in the 400 block of Brittany Road in Seaside the afternoon of March 7, the Presidio of Monterey announced in a press release on Friday, March 8.

For the second day in a row, threats of violence have interrupted operations at Monterey County government facilities, as law enforcement officials search for the person responsible for phoning in bomb threats as well as an active shooter threat.

A Salinas neighborhood was on edge for much of Friday afternoon as members of Monterey County's Crisis Intervention Team negotiated with a young woman who'd barricaded herself in her car.

Five Salinas police officers responded within minutes on Friday night, Feb. 1, to a 911 call from the Safeway store in Creekbridge on Constitution Boulevard. The caller reported a man was brandishing a gun at customers, and police quickly found 37-year-old Guadalupe Aguirre Espinoza in the p…

As Monterey County government and cannabis growers work to fit the pieces of taxation and regulation together in the new era of legalization, one thing is clear to everyone: Enforcement of black market cannabis is an important piece of the puzzle in order for legal growers—and in turn the co…

Police departments all across the U.S. and Canada responded to dozens of bomb threats on Thursday, some resulting in evacuations of buildings. Two such threats reached Salinas; police responded to both locations, and found no evidence of a credible threat at either location—nor did police an…

One person is dead after a 25-year-old Pacific Grove man, allegedly under the influence of drugs, crashed his truck into a small sedan on Highway 1 just south of Imjin Parkway around 5:30pm on Wednesday evening.

Four years after an early-morning stabbing that left a young father dead, three men have been charged with his murder.

A 33-year-old inmate is dead after he was found stabbed multiple times on Monday evening.

Victor Cabrera will die in prison after Monterey County Superior Court Judge Julie Culver sentenced him to life without the possibility of parole on Oct. 4 for strangling his girlfriend Roshni Singh to death at her Marina home in 2008.

In early 2014, a series of deadly shootings and a gruesome stabbing struck fear into Monterey Peninsula residents.

What started out as an atypical call to the Monterey Police Department on Saturday night took a turn for the even less typical—and more violent—when a police officer and two suspects exchanged gunfire in a Monterey neighborhood. 

The impact of a fatal DUI crash on Carmel Valley Road a little over two weeks ago continues to reverberate around the valley.

Six days after a two-car collision on Carmel Valley Road, a 16-year-old teen has died from her injuries.

The Monterey Peninsula College Child Development Center was evacuated just after 2:30pm on Wednesday, July 18, and the college's upper parking lot blocked off after a worker found a possible pipe bomb, according to the Monterey Police Department.

Early in the morning, before the sun rose on Saturday, July 14, six suspects made what police call a coordinated entry onto a cannabis farm south of Salinas.

In 2014, California voters passed Proposition 47 easily, on the promise of saving hundreds of millions of dollars a year and keeping non-violent drug offenders out of jail. 

The Wicked Witch of the West famously used pretty—but poisonous—poppies to put Dorothy and her band of friends to sleep in the 1939 movie The Wizard of Oz. 

In 1990, 14-year-old Christy Pina's body was discovered in an artichoke field near Castroville. Investigators found multiple stab wounds, and determined she had been strangled and raped before she died in the brutal killing. 

On the morning of Feb. 15, 2017, Monterey County Sheriff’s Deputies were called out to a Moss Landing residence on Trafton Road for a disturbance call that they soon discovered was in fact a disturbing homicide.

After almost two weeks of testimony that included a heart-wrenching and horrific tale of abuse from a little girl who survived torture and the killings of her younger siblings, a Monterey County Superior Court jury took just about an hour to find Gonzalo Curiel Jr. guilty in the murders of 6…

Stories of Muslim women wearing a hijab being attacked, or men identified as Muslim suffering assaults are not uncommon, and FBI statistics confirm that reported attacks were higher in 2016 than at their peak more than a decade ago after 9/11.

An employee at Tiny Tots University, a preschool at Seaside's Oldemeyer Center that is run by the city, is being investigated for inappropriately touching a child.