Also serving the communities of De Luz, Rainbow, Camp Pendleton, Pala and Pauma
Also serving the communities of De Luz, Rainbow, Camp Pendleton, Pala and Pauma
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CAMP PENDLETON (CNS) - A state appeals court panel today upheld the convictions of two gang members for the murder of a 19-year-old Marine from Camp Pendleton, who was shot inside his car in South Los Angeles while on a weekend leave. The three-justice panel from California's 2nd District Court of Appeal found that Oscar Aguilar and Esau Rios ``unquestionably intended to promote or assist each other's criminal conduct'' involving the Sept. 16, 2016, shooting of Lance Cpl....
ESCONDIDO (CNS) - A 64-year-old man was scheduled to make his first court appearance today on suspicion of kidnapping and raping a 19-year-old girl in Escondido over two decades ago. Mark Thompson Hunter was arrested Tuesday in Hemet on suspicion of one count of rape, one count of forcible rape, one count of forcible sodomy and three counts of forcible oral copulation stemming from the February 17, 1999, incident that began around 8:30 p.m., Escondido Lt. Bode Berreth said....
HIDDEN MEADOWS (CNS) - A shooting near Boulder Oaks Golf Club left a man wounded Friday, Jan. 15. The firearm assault in the 28200 block of Meadow Glen Way in Hidden Meadows was reported about 11:30 a.m., according to sheriff's officials. Paramedics took the victim to a hospital for treatment of injuries of undisclosed severity. His identity was not immediately available. The shooter may have fled in a silver Volkswagen SUV, Lt. Pat McEvoy said. Deputies, including personnel aboard a patrol helicopter, searched the area for...
VISTA (CNS) - A man accused in a series of sexual batteries across San Diego County pleaded not guilty Friday, Jan. 8 to 10 misdemeanor counts. Ji Hoon Yong, 25, was arrested Monday at a San Marcos Walmart for acts allegedly committed on multiple women in various public locations. Sheriff's deputies were called to the store in connection with a witness who may have recognized Yong as the subject of a sheriff's department news release which sought the public's help in identifying a man who inappropriately touched women at...
VISTA (CNS) - The San Diego County Sheriff's Department Tuesday, Dec. 29 circulated surveillance video of a man suspected in three incidents of inappropriately touching women in Vista and San Marcos. One sexual battery incident took place at 8:30 p.m. Dec. 18 at the Target store in the 1700 block of University Drive in Vista. Another took place around 4:30 p.m. Dec. 24 at the Michael's in the 1800 block of University Drive in Vista. The third occurred around 6:30 p.m. Dec. 24 at the Ralphs grocery store in the 300 block of...
VISTA (CNS) - A man was shot Tuesday, Dec. 29 in Vista, investigators said. Just before 1 a.m., deputies responded to the 400 block of Massachusetts Avenue in response to an unknown disturbance, said Lt. Thomas Seiver of the Sheriff's Homicide Unit. The deputies found the victim and had him transported a nearby hospital, where he was pronounced dead shortly after arrival, Seiver said. The victim's name is being withheld pending family notification. No further information was available. Anyone with information on the crime is...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - A judge Monday, Nov. 23 denied a request by four San Diego County businesses seeking to resume indoor operations following the county's recent slide into the purple tier of the state's coronavirus reopening plan. San Diego Superior Court Judge Kenneth J. Medel heard arguments Friday on the lawsuit, which was filed earlier this month on behalf of Cowboy Star Restaurant and Butcher Shop, Home & Away Encinitas, Fit Athletic Club, and Bear Republic, shortly before indoor operations were suspended for...
VISTA (CNS) - A man who allegedly struck and killed a 17-year-old girl with his SUV in Escondido, then drove off , pleaded not guilty Monday, Sept. 21 to a felony hit-and-run charge. Paul Anthony Lissona, 30, of Escondido faces up to four years in state prison if convicted of the June 6 death of Kirsten Rain Tomlinson, who was struck on Mesa Rock Road near Mesa Ranch Drive and died at the scene. Shortly after Tomlinson was killed, the California Highway Patrol called on the public to be on the lookout for a white Toyota...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - Federal agents with the Drug Enforcement Administration's San Diego Field Division made scores of arrests and seized thousands of pounds of methamphetamine during a recently concluded six-month crackdown on Mexican cartels that distribute the drug in the United States, the federal agency reported Thursday, Sept. 10. Personnel with the local DEA unit, whose jurisdiction comprises San Diego and Imperial counties, conducted 29 investigations, captured 81 suspects, and impounded 4,462 pounds of methamphetamine a...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - A retired San Diego Police Department criminalist committed suicide because homicide detectives improperly investigated him for the 1984 murder of a 14-year-old girl, an attorney representing the man's widow said on Tuesday, while a city attorney said the lead detective on the murder case investigated the criminalist based on the best information provided to him and was not responsible for his suicide. Opening statements were delivered Monday in the federal lawsuit filed by Kevin Brown's widow, Rebecca,...
VISTA (CNS) - A 43-year-old man was struck and killed this morning by a hit-and-run motorist in Vista, a sheriff's deputy said. The pedestrian was struck near the intersection of Vista Village and Wave drives, said Deputy Nicholas Jehl of the San Diego County Sheriff's Department. Deputies were dispatched to the location a little after 12:20 a.m. and the 43-year-old man was pronounced dead at the scene, Jehl said. "The driver of the vehicle fled the scene immediately following the collision and has not been located or...
VISTA (AP) - Former NFL player Kellen Winslow Jr. pleaded guilty Monday to raping an unconscious teen in 2003 and to sexual battery involving a 54-year-old hitchhiker in a deal that spared him the possibility of life in prison. Winslow initially hesitated and seemed to agonize over his decision. "I'm sorry. I'm just not thinking very clearly," Winslow told the judge at one point. He asked the judge for more time before he finally entered the guilty pleas moments before he was...
ESCONDIDO (CNS) - Border Patrol agents arrested a convicted sex offender who lacked documentation to be in the U.S. but who had been living in Escondido for 19 years, the agency reported on Thursday. Around 8 a.m. Wednesday, Border Patrol agents approached and questioned the 34-year-old Guatemalan man about his immigration status after locating him in an unspecified northern San Diego County community, Border Patrol officials said. The man -- who had previous convictions for lewd or lascivious acts with a child under 14 and...
ENCINITAS (CNS) - A man suspected of killing his girlfriend in Encinitas was arrested Friday in Riverside. The body of Sabrina Lukosky, 43, who had been reported missing on Oct. 3, was found about 5:15 p.m. Tuesday in the 1200 block of Summit Avenue, according to the San Diego County Sheriff's Department. Deputies were alerted to a foul odor and served a search warrant at a home in the neighborhood, sheriff's Lt. Michael Blevins said. Detectives searched the main residence on the property and a smaller structure located to...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - A fugitive convicted rapist from New York was arrested in San Diego, police said. Dale Dulac, wanted for violating parole, was being held at the Central Jail on Front Street after his arrest at 1:42 p.m. Friday. After receiving reports that Dulac was in San Diego, officers from the San Diego Police Department went to the 1500 block of Imperial Avenue, where they recognized Dulac and arrested him peacefully, police said. He is suspected of felony vehicle theft and receiving stolen property, along with being...
VISTA (AP) — A San Diego County man has been convicted of molesting girls as young as 3 years old who allegedly were supplied by his babysitter girlfriend. The San Diego Union-Tribune says Samuel Cabrera Jr. was found guilty Friday of 35 charges of conspiracy and molestation. Prosecutors say the Carlsbad man molested the girls between 2014 and 2016. The victims included two girls who were about 3 years old and two 7-year-olds, including a child who was developmentally delayed and unable to speak. Authorities say the e...
VISTA - Authorities reached out to the public for help in identifying two men who attempted to steal a vehicle in Vista last week and stabbed a neighbor who interrupted the theft. Two people were parking their vehicle in the garage of their home on Palomar Place around 7:55 p.m. on Sept. 22 when one of the people got out to move a trash can, according to the San Diego County Sheriff's Department. As the person was moving the trash can, a white newer-model Ford F-series truck stopped behind their vehicle and a passenger in...
SAN DIEGO - Federal authorities unsealed indictments on Thursday, Sept. 19 against 85 alleged members of East San Diego County drug distribution and money laundering networks linked to the Sinaloa Cartel, with more than half of the defendants currently in custody. The culmination of a year-long investigation has netted the arrests of 47 people who are charged for allegedly distributing methamphetamine, heroin and fentanyl throughout Southern California and laundering "tens of thousands of dollars in narcotics proceeds back...
SAN DIEGO - A former Navy police officer who engaged in sexual acts with a 14-year-old Oceanside girl after convincing her on social media to send him sexually explicit photos, was sentenced 20 years in federal prison on Monday, Sept. 16. Isaiah Smallwood Jackson of Vista was convicted last fall of sexual exploitation of a minor and enticement of a minor after he convinced the girl to send him nude photos, then meet for sex outside her home. He was 21 at the time and is now 23. Following his prison term, Jackson will be on...
OCEANSIDE (CNS) - A badly decomposed body was found in a riverbed near Capistrano Park on Saturday, Aug. 24, police said. A pedestrian in the park saw the body of a man and reported it to police at 12:20 p.m. Saturday, according to Tom Bussey, public information officer for the Oceanside Police Department. Police, fire department personnel and lifeguards converged on the scene and the body was pulled from the riverbed. A homicide investigator arrived later. The San Diego County coroner's office will attempt to identify the...
SAN DIEGO - Five prisoners remained hospitalized on Saturday, Aug. 24, one in critical condition, with injuries they sustained in a riot at Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility in an unincorporated area near Otay Mesa. "The incident began when several inmates began fighting on the (Facility A recreation) yard,'' the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said in a statement. "Responding staff immediately gave participants of the riot multiple orders to stop fighting. Officers used several rounds of less...
SAN DIEGO - Two animal welfare groups filed a lawsuit against the Poway Rodeo, accusing workers at the annual event of illegally shocking tame horses for entertainment purposes, it was reported. An Illinois nonprofit called Showing Animals Respect and Kindness, or SHARK, and the Animal Protection and Rescue League, a California nonprofit, filed the complaint in San Diego Superior Court Wednesday, the San Diego Union-Tribune reported. The lawsuit accuses workers at the three-day event of violating municipal and state laws by...
HEMET - A 41-year-old man was jailed on Thursday, Aug. 1 on suspicion of carrying out at a series of burglaries at breweries, small family restaurants or other family-owned businesses in Riverside and San Diego counties. Nathan Maynard of Hemet was arrested Friday in Hemet and booked into the Vista Detention Facility in San Diego County in connection with the spree, Oceanside police spokesman Tom Bussey said. Between March and July, authorities received reports of at least 20...
SAN DIEGO - The families of three children affected by an E. coli outbreak linked to the San Diego County Fair have filed claims against the fair's operators, attorneys representing the families said on Monday, July 29. The families of Jedediah Cabezuela, Christiano Lopez and Ryan Sadrabadi have taken the first steps toward a lawsuit against the 22nd District Agricultural Association, which manages and operates the fair. Jedediah, who was 2 years old, died as a result of E. coli poisoning, while Christiano was hospitalized...
HEMET - A Riverside County man who fatally shot an Oceanside resident more than two years ago during a drug-related robbery was sentenced to 80 years to life in prison on Wednesday, June 19. Hector Galvez, 32, of Hemet, was convicted in April of murder and robbery in the Feb. 24, 2017, slaying of Joel Bishop, 45, who was found shot around 4:45 a.m. that day in the 1700 block of South Myers Street. Paramedics took Bishop to Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla, where he was pronounced dead less than an hour later, police said....
