A Scottish man, who fled justice in the United Kingdom by traveling to California and faking his own death off the coast of Monterey County, has received a 15-year prison sentence for raping three women, sexually assaulting an 11-year-old girl and committing other crimes over a span of more than a decade. Read More …
By JOSH FRIEDMAN Workers repairing a washed-out stretch of Highway 1 in Monterey County discovered a dead body near their construction site Wednesday morning. At about 10 a.m., workers found the Read More …
Shortly after the start of the Dolan Fire near Big Sur Tuesday night, detectives arrested a Fresno man for allegedly causing the blaze. The Dolan Fire has burned 8,500 acres and Read More …
The two inmates who escaped Monterey County Jail while facing gang-related murder charges were caught by the United States border patrol Tuesday night. Read More …
Months after a Scottish sexual assault suspect faked his own death off the coast of Monterey County, authorities caught the fugitive in Colorado, and he is now in custody awaiting extradition to Scotland. Read More …
Monterey County Sheriff’s officials suspect a man who is wanted in Scotland on 24 counts of rape may have faked his own death as part of a plot to evade justice. Read More …
Two teens from Colorado — a 13-year-old and a 16-year-old — are suspected of a string of burglaries last week that started at the Mission Trail Cider House taproom in Cholame and ending after they were arrested in Monterey County. Read More …
Monterey County Sheriff’s deputies destroyed thousands of opium poppy plants over the weekend that were being grown in a field in Moss Landing.
Last week, sheriff’s investigators learned of the grow site and confirmed that the plants were indeed Papaver Somniferum, commonly known as opium poppies. Read More …
A Santa Cruz man whose life was saved by a firefighter and who once dreamed of himself becoming a fireman has been identified as the gunman who shot and wounded a Read More …
Deputies arrested a man Monday evening who allegedly shot a U.S. Forest Service worker. The suspect then led officers on a chase through Fort Hunter Liggett in southern Monterey County. Shortly Read More …