Burglaries dropped 42 percent in Manteca during August as the city continued to benefit from a steady drop in the crime rate.
RIPON – Ripon Police department's "powered parachute" has helped nail another criminal.
An off-duty Manteca Police officer reportedly spotted a 24-year-old Manteca woman driving in a small blue pickup truck Thursday morning and recognized her as being on searchable probation from a previous conviction.
An automotive chop shop, along with four rifles, ammunition and drugs were discovered in a Raymus Village neighborhood Tuesday afternoon by Manteca officers making a routine probation search.
Felony crimes dropped almost 2 percent in Manteca during July. For 2008 through July 31, felony crimes are down 13.61 percent in Manteca. It continues a trend that started in 2008 after Manteca was able to expand its police force with Measure M sales tax revenue. The budget crisis earlier this month ended up reducing the number of sworn officers from 72 to 60. Of the remaining officers, 11 are funded with the Measure M ...
Marijuana-laced Rice Krispies and Cap'n Crunchberry clusters were found in a probation search at a Manteca residence in the 800 block of Ralph Street Thursday morning.
Manteca Police are investigating the theft from a Wal-Mart cash register by three males. The trio entered the Wal-Mart in Manteca on Tuesday, Oct. 20, at 7:30 p.m. They went to a register that a clerk had just left and opened the drawer and stole an undetermined amount of money. Video cameras captured the suspects as they took the money. You can see the video by going to www.mantecabulletin.com Crime Stoppers is offering up ...
LATHROP – A man was found with shot gun wounds before sunrise Thursday on the ground of a Lathrop business.
Cabral Chrysler Jeep Dodge was hit by thieves between Sunday night and Tuesday morning, according to owner Bill Cabral.
Three Manteca women were arrested Tuesday morning at their Snyder Street residents by Manteca Police detectives on a routine parole search.
Some five pounds of marijuana buds and hash were discovered in a north Manteca home Friday morning valued at about $3,000.
Arrested again for very much the same thing she was jailed for previously, Lastarza Beatrice Williams, 27, was escorted to a Manteca Police transport van Thursday afternoon yelling at officers and kicking.
The theft of several flat screen LCD televisions and hotel bedding brought about the arrest of a 38-year-old Manteca man Wednesday morning.
The driver of a motor home that took out mail boxes and a fire hydrant in the 100 block of Button Avenue at 5:15 Thursday before rear ending a car at Cottage and Button avenues told Manteca Police officers he had been hijacked.
A Hughson couple was detained by Home Depot personnel shortly before noon Wednesday after they allegedly stole some $200 in flooring laminate.
A cash roll of $2,200 – money intended for a down payment on a mobile home – was dropped in the parking lot of a Manteca fast food restaurant.
FRENCH CAMP - A French Camp woman was shot Sunday morning while sitting behind the wheel of her car and then drove herself to a hospital with three bullet wounds in the upper part of her body.
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - Police stormed a New Jersey home early Sunday and fatally shot a registered sex offender who had held his girlfriend's three children hostage, ending their 37-hour ordeal and recovering the bodies of the captives' mother and another sibling, authorities said.
Dominic Aguilar, 37, is being held to answer a felony terrorist threat charge that he leveled threats against Manteca Police Officer John Moody on his Facebook page related to the officer involved shooting of Ernesto Duenas, Jr., nearly two years ago.
LATHROP - A 12-member Manteca-Ripon SWAT team and five undercover officers served a major arrest warrant at a home in the 400 block of Manila Road in Lathrop just minutes after 7 a.m. Tuesday.
Christina Duran, 41, had to wait to eat a late night snack until she got to county jail in the early hours of Wednesday morning after she allegedly rammed the Carl Junior's fast food restaurant in the 1400 block of West Yosemite Avenue with her vehicle.
A burglary in progress with a van backed into a driveway caught the attention of neighbors who called police.
A woman motorist detained at the front gate of the Sharpe Army Depot without identification set off what was quickly labeled a multi-casualty incident (MCI) when investigating officers developed immediate hand irritations when they searched her white Suburban SUV.
Thieves attempting to break into a Second Harvest Food Bank refrigerator truck trailer sometime over the weekend accomplished only one thing – the loss of $5,000 worth of perishable food stacked inside the trailer that arrived on Friday.
Vandals trashed part of East Union High School in the predawn hours Saturday morning, smashing out the windshield and four side windows of a pickup truck in the motor pool and spreading human feces on a door and window to a classroom.
A volley of gunfire directed at the Manteca Ambulance headquarters shortly before 11 p.m. Friday night shocked two ambulance medics as they were looking out the front window of the two-story building.
A federal law enforcement crackdown on career criminals is helping local police agencies fight growing crime.
LATHROP – A man that asked for a "light" for his cigarette Thursday afternoon ended up taking a lot more.
COLTON (AP) - Authorities in San Bernardino County say a pit bull was shot and killed after it attacked and critically injured a 74-year-old woman then went after police officers who were trying to help her.
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