Friday, May 18, 2012
Daniel Hubbard of La Mesa, was arrested Friday and charged with attempted kidnapping, false imprisonment and child annoying.
The La Mesa Police Department, in connection with a joint effort with local high schools and the El Cajon Police Department, have arrested a man in connection with a recent spate of sexual harassment of female high school students, as they walked to school. Daniel Hubbard, of La Mesa, is alleged to have been involved the man involved in recent reports of harassing two Grossmont High School students and one Helix Charter High School student in the last 10 days. On Wednesday, police say Hubbard approached an 18-year-old female student, and Lemon Grove resident, as she was walking to Helix High School at about 9 a.m. Hubbard, who was driving an older pickup truck, drove up to the student and whistled at her, while also making comments of a …
The Friday morning incident prompted a brief lock down of Monterey Heights Elementary School while deputies searched the area.
Two men were arrested Friday morning on suspicion of burglarizing a home on the 1400 block of Bakersfield St., according to sheriff’s authorities. Roberto Castillo, 34, and Demetrius Kostos, 36, were taken into custody after attempting to hide in the home, said sheriff’s Sgt. Michelle McPhail. Deputies responded to a call of a possible residential burglary in progress at about 9:05 a.m. Friday, after a neighbor reported seeing an unknown male force open the front door of the home, McPhail said. The sheriff’s helicopter was called in to assist with the search of the neighborhood just south of Monterey Heights Elementary School. When deputies arrived, they confronted two men leaving the house in the backyard. According to authorities, both …
Thursday, May 17, 2012
Witness to 2010 SUV plunge off Carlsbad cliff sought $256,000 from Chargers great in April.
Updated at 9 a.m. May 18, 2012 Six days before killing himself, Junior Seau was being represented in a downtown San Diego courtroom by an attorney fending off a personal-injury lawsuit. According to court documents, Murray Lea sought $256,000 from Seau as compensatory damages in connection with Seau’s 2010 SUV plunge off a Carlsbad cliff. Lea says he was close enough to the car he could have grabbed the door handle, but injured himself jumping away. He listed a San Marcos address in the lawsuit, but now says he is homeless—living out of a van on Coast Highway and fearing for his life as a result of publicity about the case. “I’m suing a dead legend for a quarter-million dollars,” Lea noted Thursday afternoon from his car in Carlsbad. But …
On May 16, a female student was forcibly grabbed by a suspicious man while walking to Helix High School. She pulled away and ran to school, where she notified the administrators.
Incidents of female high school students being harassed by adult males near local high schools have continued this week, according to police. On Wednesday, May 16, at approximately 12:30 p.m. an adult male was seen following a female student as she was walking to Helix Charter High School. The male subject was driving a large grey pick-up truck. The man pulled the truck up along side the student and made several vulgar comments that were sexual in nature. When the student did not reply, the male subject got out of his car and forcibly grabbed the student by the arm, repeating the comments. The student pulled away and ran onto the Helix campus where she reported it to the school administration and the School Resource Officer. This case was …
Friday, May 11, 2012
Blood leads authorities through apartment complex to neighbor's door.
A trail of blood leading to an apartment door has authorities searching for a Lemon Grove man described as a “person of interest” in connection with a stabbing early Friday morning. Investigators are looking for Albert Prano, 41, of the 3700 block of Hilltop Drive, and an unidentified Hispanic adult male, according to sheriff’s Sgt. Greg Hampton. Authorities said both men may be injured. Hampton said police summoned to Paradise Valley Hospital just after midnight Friday in response to an assault with a deadly weapon, found Prano’s neighbor, Adel Salim Rammal, 47, had been stabbed three times in the chest and assaulted with a Taser. According to Hampton, a witness drove Rammal to a hospital following an attack that took place in a driveway …
Authorities say the incident took place in the vicinity of Hilltop Drive.
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Friday, May 11
A man was hospitalized in critical condition early today after being stabbed in Lemon Grove, authorities said. A San Diego police officer was flagged down at South Euclid Avenue and Holly Drive in the Lincoln Park area shortly after midnight by the victim's girlfriend who was in the process of driving him to a hospital, San Diego police Sgt. Ray Battrick said. Sheriff's detectives were called in once police determined the stabbing occurred in the vicinity of Hilltop Drive in Lemon Grove, sheriff's Lt. David Gilmore said. No other details were immediately released.
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
Employment will increase by 271 positions despite the decrease in dollars, according to a staff report.
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Tuesday, May 8
San Diego County will spend nearly 2 percent less in the fiscal year starting July 1, according to a budget presented to the Board of Supervisors Tuesday by the county's chief administrative officer. Walter Ekard presented the $4.77 billion spending plan to the board, which will begin its budget deliberations June 11. The spending plan represents a 1.9 percent reduction in spending compared to this year's budget of about $4.86 billion, Ekard said. Supervisor Dianne Jacob was upbeat. "This is a smaller budget this year than we've ever had," she said, "and we're doing more with less, and it's because of the creativeness and the innovation and the charge that everyone has at every level to try to do the best that we can to try to provide the …
Thursday, May 3, 2012
Capt. Pete Callewaert will take over May 18.
Sheriff’s Capt. Pete Callewaert has been named to command the Lemon Grove Station, replacing Capt. Gigi McCalla, who has been at the helm here since Sept. 24, 2010. McCalla has been appointed to the department's Personnel Division, following the promotion of Commander Don Fowler. Callewaert will take over starting May 18. The station’s new skipper, who has been with the Sheriff’s Department 24 years, comes to Lemon Grove with an extensive background in local law enforcement. He was lieutenant of the Weapons Training Unit, having worked his way up through the ranks at several posts including the Santee and Vista stations, the Las Colinas, Vista and Central jails, the San Diego Regional Task Force, Special Investigations, In-Service Training…
Researchers may study his brain for repetitive injury if his family consents.
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Thursday, May 3
Thursday the Medical Examiner’s Office confirmed that Junior Seau’s death was a suicide. The 43-year-old NFL legend died Wednesday inside his Oceanside home from a gunshot wound to the chest, which the Medical Examiner determined to be self-inflicted. Deputy Medical Examiner Dr. Craig Nelson conducted the forensic autopsy, according to a news release from the county. The autopsy included a full inspection of Seau’s body and organs—and a host of laboratory studies, including a toxicology report and a microscopic examination of organs and tissues. The results of those tests will be part of the final autopsy report. Researchers outside of the medical examiner's office may study Seau's brain for repetitive injury if his family consents, …
Suspect, 63, lived in the same mobile home park as the victim, according to authorities.
A 63-year-old man who lived in the same mobile home park as Mary Jean Eskridge was arrested Wednesday afternoon in her slaying, authorities said. Gary Allen Thomas, who was booked at 10:30 p.m. in County Jail, faces one count of murder, said sheriff’s homicide Lt. Larry Nesbit at a brief 8:30 p.m. news conference outside the Kearny Mesa headquarters of the Sheriff’s Department. Eskridge founded Jean's Dance Studio in Spring Valley in 1948. The studio is now owned by her daughter, Suzanne Mollenhauer. Thomas is set to be arraigned on a charge of first-degree murder at 1:30 p.m. Friday in El Cajon Superior Court. No bail was set—he is not eligible for release. “We just started the investigation yesterday,” Nesbit said of the case in which …
The Gunny
5:03 pm on Friday, May 18, 2012
Work that ass you shitbird. If you have to constantly harp on your "victim" status then you are dodging the truth. Here's another idea there freak, use a SPELLCHECKER, it gives you outward appearance that your not a complete idiot. more ›