Police Blotter: Shots Fired at House

A gunman fired six shots at an Airport Road house late Sunday but the two people home at the time were not hurt, Watsonville police reported.

The shooting was reported just after 11 p.m. Officers collected shell casings from a semiautomatic gun at the scene. No arrests were made.

"No one saw anything. No one heard anything," Sgt. Saul Gonzalez said. 

Gonzalez said the house may have been targeted, because past residents had gang ties, however, those people had moved out.

In an unrelated case, a 17-year-old boy previously convicted of car theft was arrested Sunday morning for allegedly stealing a black 1997 Ford Mustang, Watsonville police said.

The car's owner saw it being taken from Melwood Court around 10 a.m. A cop spotted the car about 30 minutes later backing out of a parking lot in the Green Meadow area, police said.

The officer tried to stop the car, but the driver ran away. He was caught by police nearby. Officers said the teen already was on probation for a prior vehicle theft and also had a warrant. He was booked into Juvenile Hall.

Watsonville police log, Sunday, May 1

12:05 a.m.—Matthew Wescott, 43, was arrested on suspicion of being on drugs and having cocaine on the 100 block of Magnolia Drive.

12:20 a.m.—Ricardo Juarez, 27, was arrested on suspicion of being on drugs on the 600 block of Main Street.

1 p.m.—Jim Rodriguez and Nikko Borja were both arrested at a home on the 600 block of Madison Street. Rodriguez was jailed on a misdemeanor warrant and resisting arrest; Borja had a felony warrant.

6:10 p.m.—Napoleon Bernabe-Silva, 59, was arrested on suspicion of DUI after being involved in a crash on Clifford Avenue north of Pennsylvania Drive. No one was hurt.

11:32 p.m.—Poice investigated a weapons charges on Winding Way at Pennsylvania Drive.

Saturday, April 30

12:05 a.m.—Johny Argueta was cited for allegedly having a gram of marijuana on the 300 block of Bree Lane.

7 a.m.—Somone keyed a car, including scratching a nasty comment on the roof. The car was parked on the 200 block of Silver Leaf Drive.

7:15 a.m.—A car burglar smashed the drivers side window on a car and stole a cell phone. The car was on the 200 block of Carmel Street; the theft happened overnight.

5:35 p.m.—Jesus Carlos Mendoza, 19, was arrested with a spring-activated concealed knife, police said. He was picked up at Union Street and Riverside Drive.

7:24 p.m.—Police arrested Hugo Arturo Ortiz Alvarez on the 100 block of Blanca Lane on a warrant.

Friday, April 29

8:47 a.m.—A theft occurred on the 900 block of Tuttle Avenue.

1:16 p.m.—A 50-year-old man told police someone used his Social Security number to get a credit card. The ID theft happened in the past three years.

1:17 p.m.—A teen was cited for allegedly violating his probation. He was picked up at Martinelli and Glemar streets, then turned over to his grandmother.

5:41 p.m.—Jose Luiz Martinez, 31, was contacted under "suspicious circumstances" on the 100 block of Main Street. It got a whole lot more suspicious when he lied about his name and ran from police. Turns out, he had a warrant and was arrested.

5:46 p.m.—Four teenage girls fought two other girls on the 200 block of East Beach Street. The foursome was cited for battery and released to their parents.

7:21 p.m.—Steven Alcott, 27, ran from police when they pulled him over on the 100 block of Middlefield Lane. Both Alcott and his drunk passenger, Santos Carranco, 23, were arrested.

8:57 p.m.—Alejandra Alejandres Cardenas, 27, was cited for allegedly shoplifting from Target. She took merchandise worth $47.97, police said.

9:56 p.m.—A hit-and-run driver struck a 65-year-old man on the 1000 block of Freedom Boulevard. The men were injured and taken to Watsonville Community Hospital. Cesar Vasquez-Lopez, 27, was later arrested.

10:35 p.m.—Jose Escutia, 22, was arrested for being drunk in public on the 1000 block of Freedom Boulevard.