Crime Reports

Police briefs are obtained from the local police departments.

Police Briefs are obtained from the local police departments.

A spike in violent crimes this month has left two residents dead and two others injured from four shootings reported in King City and Greenfield, and now local investigators are asking for the public’s help in finding those responsible for the gun violence.

Police Briefs are obtained from the local police departments.

Salinas Valley State Prison officials are investigating the death of an inmate as a homicide.

A case of animal cruelty occurred in Soledad on San Benito Street on Wednesday afternoon, Dec. 27.

A Soledad man was sentenced to life in prison last Friday for the execution-style shooting of his child’s mother at her Greenfield home in 2016.

Soledad Police have arrested a man in connection with a shooting and attempted homicide that occurred Tuesday morning in the 1700 block of Vosti Avenue in Soledad.

A farmworker from Salinas died early Wednesday morning in a tractor accident on private property near the intersection of Old Stage Road and Chualar Canyon Road in Chualar.

An agricultural accident was reported early Wednesday morning near the intersection of Old Stage Road and Chualar Canyon Road in Chualar, with first reports claiming that it included a fatality.