Crime Reports

SALINAS VALLEY — More than 200 community members attended last month’s Overdose Awareness Symposium 2022, hosted by Sun Street Centers to bring attention to the uptick in drug-related overdoses. Monterey County Supervisor Chris Lopez was master of ceremonies for the countywide event, held Aug. 31...

KING CITY — Monterey County Judge Rafael Vasquez has sentenced King City residents and farm labor contractors Elias Perez Jr., 43, and Alejandra Perez, 40, to three years in prison for insurance fraud committed between 2013 and 2017. Vasquez also suspended those prison sentences, placing...

KING CITY — A Monterey County jury has convicted Kevin James Powell of first-degree murder and attempted murder. On Sept. 14, 2022, the deceased victim and his brother were in town for work staying at a Motel 6 in King City. That night, after returning...

KING CITY — Officers from the King City Police Department and deputy sheriffs from the Monterey County Sheriff’s Office responded to a physical fight involving multiple subjects in the 1000 block of Broadway Street on Aug. 30 at about 7:22 p.m. A group of juveniles...

Police Briefs are obtained from the local Police Departments.

Police Reports are obtained from the local police departments. GREENFIELD July 172:22 p.m. Gang contact on S El Camino Real.4:15 p.m. Municipal code violation (animals) on 10th St. July 182:40 a.m. Stolen vehicle on 4th St.5:27 p.m. Civil standby on 11th St.7:55 p.m. Violation of...

KING CITY — King City Police Department responded to a report of a welfare check on a woman who left her family’s residence after threatening to harm her two small children and herself on Dec. 21 at about 11:17 a.m. Through the investigation it was...

KING CITY — King City Police Department is asking for the community’s help in finding a suspect vehicle that was involved in a shooting early Saturday morning. Local officers as well as personnel from the Soledad and Greenfield police departments and Monterey County Sheriff’s Office...

Police Reports are obtained from the local police departments. KING CITY Feb. 83:01 p.m. APS Referral on Queen St.7:12 p.m. Assault with a deadly weapon (non firearm) on Division St. Feb. 95:17 p.m. Unlawful possession of drug paraphernalia on Broadway St. Feb. 1011:17 a.m. Agency Outside Assistance4:29 p.m. Abandoned...

KING CITY — Armando Rodriguez Garcia was sentenced on June 26 to 15 years to life in prison, plus an additional term of 41 years and eight months, for a series of violent actions last year in King City. In May, a jury convicted 37-year-old...