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Articles from the February 22, 2017 edition


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  • Deliberations begin in trial of doc accused of sexually assaulting patients

    Updated Feb 22, 2017

    MURRIETA - Jury deliberations began today in the trial of a doctor accused of groping and sexually assaulting multiple female patients in Temecula. John Francis McGuire, 45, of Escondido is charged with 31 felony and misdemeanor counts, including forcible rape, sexual battery of a restrained person and attempted sexual assault of an unconscious person. Following more than two weeks of testimony, the prosecution and defense delivered their closing statements today at the...

  • Sex trafficker sentenced to 40 years in prison for prostituting underage girls

    Updated Feb 22, 2017

    SAN DIEGO - A Hemet man was sentenced today in federal court in San Diego to 40 years in prison for forcing a 16-year-old girl into prostitution and keeping the money she made for himself. A jury found Luther Gene Ray, 33, guilty in December 2015 of sex trafficking of a minor by force, fraud or coercion. The victim, a runaway, had met Ray the previous year, about a month after his release from an eight-year prison stint for committing the same crime in Los Angeles, according to prosecutors. At the time, he was on supervised...