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Hollister police briefs: Motorcyclist killed, women arrested in gruesome stabbing
Jun 22, 2009
 By Dispatch Staff

A memorial is placed near the location where Hollister's Derek Silva died Friday in an accident on Highway 25 north of Murphy Road.
Photo by: Nick Lovejoy, Staff Photographer
Two suspects in San Juan stabbing arrested

Authorities have arrested two Castroville women suspected of stabbing a Watsonville woman in San Juan Bautista and leaving her in a field along Highway 156 on June 13, according to the San Benito County Sheriff's Office.

With cooperation from the Watsonville Police Department, local detectives identified and arrested the two suspects, 39-year-old Lynda J. Hernandez and 18-year-old Sadie Stephens, who are roommates, said Detective Ed Nino with the sheriff's office.

Authorities arrested the suspects after receiving information from the victim on the suspects. A judge has set bail for each at $550,000, and they remain in custody at the San Benito County Jail.

Watsonville police located the suspects Friday in that city, where investigators questioned them before the arrests on suspicion of kidnapping and attempted murder, the detective said.

"This arrest couldn't have happened without the cooperation of the Watsonville Police Department," Nino said.

Nino explained that the three were together in Watsonville in the early evening on June 13, a Saturday, and had driven to the San Juan area. There had been an "ongoing" feud between the women, who all are associates in Watsonville, Nino said.

The victim, age 34, was stabbed that night all over her body and left near the highway near Monterey Street, where she stayed overnight before being discovered near the shoulder the following morning. She was airlifted to a Bay Area hospital and survived.

Motorcycle rider killed over weekend on Hwy. 25

A 28-year-old Salinas man died in a motorcycle accident Saturday south of Cienega Road on Highway 25, according to a press release from the California Highway Patrol.

The man, whose name has not been released by the CHP, was southbound on a 2008 Suzuki at about 5:45 p.m. just south of Cienega Road. He was traveling at a "high rate of speed" and drove off the road. The man was ejected from the motorcycle, according to the CHP.

Medical responders pronounced him dead at the scene.

Highway 25 rollover victim identified as Hollister resident

The California Highway Patrol has confirmed the identity of the AT&T truck driver killed in a rollover Friday on Highway 25 as Derek Silva of Hollister, according to a press release from the CHP.

Silva, 39, was driving a 2004 Ford utility truck at an unknown speed shortly before 7 p.m. north of Murphy Road when the vehicle left the eastern roadway edge for unknown reasons, according to the CHP. The vehicle then crossed the road's western edge and rolled over.

Silva was ejected, and paramedics pronounced him dead when they arrived, according to the CHP. He died of blunt force trama to the head, according to the press release.


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