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Post by Sher on May 28, 2005 11:15:49 GMT -5
SAN DIEGO -- A 23-year-old woman on her way home after a late-night shift at a Burger King was killed Friday when a softball-sized rock crashed through a car window and struck her in the head in Linda Vista, police said.
Someone in a vehicle traveling in the opposite direction just after 2 a.m. apparently threw the rock that struck Yadira Guzman, who was riding in a car with her husband in the 3200 block of Genesee Avenue, according to San Diego police homicide Lt. Kevin Rooney.
Guzman's husband, Javier Manzanares, sped a short distance back to their home in the 6600 block of Kelley Street and called authorities at about 2:10 a.m., Rooney said.
Guzman was pronounced dead at 2:24 a.m., Medical Examiner's officials said.
Other motorists driving in the communities of Linda Vista, La Jolla, Clairemont and Miramar reported someone in a vehicle throwing rocks at cars over a 70-minute span beginning just before 1 a.m., Rooney said.
They were at:
Interstate 805 at Miramar La Jolla Parkway at Torrey Pines Hidden Valley at Torrey Pines Clairemont Mesa at Genessee
Police say since Monday, there have been 16 reports of rocks being thrown at vehicles while the motorists were driving. The vehicles were damaged, but no other motorists were injured.
"I want the person or persons responsible for this to know that we have a team of homicide investigators working around the clock to bring them to justice," Assistant Chief Rulette Armstead said.
San Diego police officials are working with the California Highway Patrol to determine whether similar incidents have been reported on local highways, CHP Capt. John Bailey said.
The suspect vehicle has been described by various witnesses as a pickup truck, a SUV and a sedan, Rooney said.
"I am open to the possibility that we are looking for more than one person or more than one vehicle. We just don't know for sure," Rooney said. "We need the public's help on this one."
Anyone with information about the incident was asked to call San Diego police at (619) 531-2293 or the Crime Stoppers anonymous tip line at (888) 580-TIPS.
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Post by Sher on Jun 1, 2005 0:58:26 GMT -5
SIMI VALLEY, California (CNN) -- A man who authorities said killed two people at their home Monday committed suicide during a standoff Tuesday at a Wal-Mart store in Simi Valley, authorities said.
The store was evacuated and the area sealed after the man entered with a gun.
Ventura County Sheriff Bob Brooks said that when shots were heard from inside the store, police went in and found "the suspect had shot himself once in the head and was dead."
"We didn't find any other victims inside," Brooks said.
He did not reveal the man's name, pending notification of his next of kin.
He did say the man was 38 years old, was a resident of Indiana, and had a violent background, including terrorist threats and battery against a police officer.
Authorities said they believe the man killed a man and woman and wounded another man Monday in nearby Thousand Oaks.
The killer apparently hijacked a vehicle shortly afterward, Brooks said.
Brooks said police believe the shooter knew at least one of his victims, possibly through business.
Authorities said the man also wounded a sheriff's deputy during an altercation Tuesday morning.
Brooks said the deputy, Scott Ramirez, "is doing fine" and is expected to make a full recovery from wounds in the shoulder and upper chest.
Ramirez was responding to a disturbance call in the Santa Rosa Valley area, where someone had broken into a home, Brooks said.
Authorities said the intruder pistol-whipped a mother and two children. The mother called her husband during the incident and police were notified.
Brooks said the intruder shot at the husband after he had arrived and blocked the driveway with his vehicle.
Although the husband escaped injury, Ramirez came to his aid and exchanged gunfire with the intruder before getting shot, Brooks said.
The intruder then fled in a car, and police pursued him to the Wal-Mart.
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Post by Sher on Jun 1, 2005 1:58:29 GMT -5
LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- Authorities arrested the mother of a 17-year-old boy who saw his picture on a missing children's Web site and discovered that he was allegedly abducted from Canada 14 years ago. Acting on a Canadian-issued warrant, U.S. marshals arrested Giselle-Marie Goudreault, 45, at her home in the San Fernando Valley. She was being held without bail until Canadian authorities can extradite her on child abduction charges, authorities said. Goudreault "was shocked and very emotional" during the February 11 arrest, said Jimell Griffin, a deputy U.S. Marshall in Los Angeles. The boy's father had custody of his son, and Griffin said Goudreault did not return him after a court-ordered visit. The teen, whose identity was not released, was immediately put in a foster home. The boy spotted his own photo, taken when he was 3, on a Canadian missing children's Web site a few months ago and told a teacher about it, authorities said. The teacher contacted police, who then confirmed the story with Canadian authorities. Griffin said although it was Goudreault's son who initiated contact with authorities, the youth was upset at his mother's arrest and tried to comfort her while she was being led away. Goudreault initially took her son to live in Mexico, authorities said, and she moved to the Los Angeles area in 1995. She has been remarried twice. "They were taking her child away and she did what she had to do," Melissa Goudreault, her sister-in-law, said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press on Tuesday from her home in Red Deer, Alberta. "The family is behind her and is trying to raise money for her legal defense." edition.cnn.com/2004/US/West/02/18/missing.teen.ap/
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Post by Sher on Jun 2, 2005 8:35:24 GMT -5
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A woman who claims she had an affair with former NBA star and Fox Sports Net sportscaster John Salley has filed a lawsuit alleging he mentally and physically abused her during the relationship.
The suit alleges that the co-host of The Best d**n Sports Show Period met Laura Azevedo at Magic Johnson's A Midsummer Night's Magic charity event in 2002.
Calls left for Salley at Fox Sports Net were not immediately returned.
The two began dating the following December after Salley told Azevedo he was going to divorce his wife, according to the court papers.
Azevedo alleges that Salley became increasingly jealous and abusive, until at one point he "began violently pulling and twisting" her left leg. The suit says that Salley paid for Azevedo to undergo an MRI, which revealed a torn knee ligament that required surgery.
Salley played on NBA championship teams with the Detroit Pistons, Chicago Bulls and Los Angeles Lakers. He joined the Fox Sports Net show in 2001.
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Post by Sher on Jun 9, 2005 23:10:58 GMT -5
Border Patrol Agents Accused Of Drug Smuggling Two Agents On Administrative Leave
POSTED: 3:32 pm PDT June 8, 2005 UPDATED: 5:13 pm PDT June 8, 2005
SAN DIEGO -- Two San Diego Border Patrol agents are under investigation for allegedly helping smuggle drugs into the U.S., 10News reported.
Officials inside the Border Patrol said they admit an investigation is under way.
Questions remain, though, about which agents were involved and how they allegedly helped move drugs into the U.S.
Sources told 10News the two border patrol agents were linked to the same Mexican drug smugglers involved in the shooting of a fellow agent in East County Friday.
"This is a huge investigation. We are still sorting it out," Lt. Thomas Bennett, with the Sheriff's Department, said.
A Border Patrol agent was shot in the leg when he tried to stop a man who was loading hundreds of pounds of marijuana into a truck at the border fence near Boulevard.
The Border Patrol and other agencies involved in that case will not confirm whether the agents under suspicion are linked to that case.
Other highly-placed sources said the agents are linked to a North County gang that moved thousands of pounds of marijuana, methamphetamines and cocaine into the U.S.
The Department of Homeland Security released video of a raid at one of the gang member's homes.
"This organization was involved in smuggling drugs into the United States. They were also involved in the distribution," ICE special agent Michael Unzueta said.
Immigration and customs officials will not confirm whether that group is also tied to the two border patrol agents suspected of helping drug smugglers.
A Border Patrol spokesperson said that two agents have been placed on administrative leave pending the outcome of an internal investigation, but no one has been arrested.
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Post by Sher on Jun 14, 2005 9:12:22 GMT -5
BAKERSFIELD -- A Bakersfield man suspected of murdering his 75-year-old wife has been turned over to Bakersfield detectives.
Bakersfield Police Department officials say Mexican authorities turned over Herschel Hall at about 5 p.m. on June 7.
He was booked into the downtown jail at about 1:30 a.m. on Wednesday.
Hall was taken into custody in Mexico on Sunday. Authorities said he stole a semitrailer from a rest stop on Interstate 5 near Camp Pendleton.
Detectives from the Bakersfield Police Department had been on the lookout for Hall in connection to the slaying of Hall's wife, Frances Hall, whom he recently married.
Hall was released from prison last week.
An employee at the Vagabond Inn Motel on Panama Lane in South Bakersfield discovered Frances Hall's body on the morning of June 2 in a motel room.
Mexican authorities have not commented on whether Hall will be charged with damage he caused while in Tijuana.
Hall is slated to be in court on Thursday. He is being held in the downtown jail where he now be allowed bail.
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Post by Sher on Jun 15, 2005 15:37:47 GMT -5
Police Search For Missing Student In Otay River New Information Indicates Foul Play
POSTED: 9:41 am PDT June 15, 2005 UPDATED: 11:52 am PDT June 15, 2005
CHULA VISTA, Calif. -- A new lead in the case of a girl missing since 2002 prompted investigators Wednesday to search the Otay River near Main and Broadway streets in Chula Vista, 10News reported.
The Chula Vista Police Department is now working with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and the FBI to attempt to find Gabriela Gonzalez in the River Bottom area.
On Friday, April 5, 2002, Gabriela's mother drove her to school from their home in South San Diego to Montgomery High School in Otay Mesa.
Gabriela, then 14 years old, did not go to class, and as it turns out, she hadn't for the two days prior to that. The difference on April 5 was that Gabriela didn't come home, either, the Chula Vista Police Department reported.
Gabriela's mother filed a missing person report with the San Diego Police Department.
Information gathered at the time revealed that Gabriela headed north to Chula Vista to see her 19-year-old boyfriend. Juan Vera, rather than going to class on those days.
But new information surfaced from several sources, including gang members, that may indicate that Gabriela was the victim of foul play and her body may be buried in the Otay River bottom, CVPD Sgt. John McAvenia reported.
Police believe that Gabriela disappeared shortly after she was questioned about having sex with Vera, 10News reported.
"It's believe that she was enroute to his house when ... she disappeared. (Vera) has gotten in trouble for domestic violence, previous to this with another young lady and after this with another young lady. He's currently in prison for bank robbery and drug sales," McAvenia told 10News. "There are indications that he's a gang member and that's kind of the same gang that's giving us information now."
According to 10News, Vera is a subject of interest, but not a suspect, and is being questioned by authorities.
Specially trained dogs will be utilized to do a systematic search of the area and we are seeking the public's help reference this case. Anyone with information is urged to call Crime Stoppers at 888 580-TIPS (8477) or CVPD at (619) 691-5202.
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Post by Sher on Jun 17, 2005 1:18:28 GMT -5
SAN JOSE, Calif. — A convicted child molester jailed in California may have committed sex crimes against thousands of victims, police said Thursday after finding computers, notebooks and meticulous, handwritten lists of boys' names and apparent codes for various sex acts.
San Jose Police Lt. Scott Cornfield described 63-year-old Dean Arthur Schwartzmiller (search) as "one of the most active child molesters we've ever seen."
During a search of his bedroom in San Jose (search), police discovered binders full of child porn and numerous logs with lists of more than 36,000 children's names — mostly boys — and codes that appear to indicate how he abused them.
"If one-tenth of these numbers are accurate, we're looking at hundreds of victims in a number of states. The reason we want to tell the world about this is because we believe he's been involved in child molestations in a number of countries," Cornfield said.
Schwartzmiller was being held without bail on one count of aggravated sexual assault on a child and six counts of lewd and lascivious conduct on a child, with each count alleging multiple victims. He was arrested in Washington state late last month and sent to San Jose on June 7. A message left for his public defender was not immediately returned Thursday.
Authorities said Schwartzmiller apparently gained the trust of victims and parents by working as a home renovation contractor. San Jose police got involved after he allegedly befriended at least two boys in the city with gifts, invited them to his house for video games and movies, and molested them.
Schwartzmiller apparently did not register as a sex offender, so his history did not appear in the "Megan's Law" databases in California or other states, authorities said.
"It's as shocking to me as to you," said Sgt. Tom Sims, a supervisor with the department's child exploitation division. "I've never seen anything like this."
Although police said Schwartzmiller appears to have spent much of the past 30 years in California, he has been arrested on child molestation charges in New York, Arkansas and Washington. He also served prison time in Idaho for child molestation in the late 1970s, and is wanted in Oregon on sexual assault charges involving a minor.
In the 1980s, he lived in Brazil, and was extradited from there to Idaho again in the later part of the decade to serve more time, Cornfield said. Police believe he may have victims in Brazil and Mexico.
Authorities also arrested Schwartzmiller's roommate, another convicted child molester wanted for violating parole in Oregon. Fred Everts was charged with child molestation in San Jose.
In a separate case, Edilberto Datan, a 61-year-old San Diego man who has admitted to traveling to his native Philippines and having sex with eight underage boys, was sentenced Thursday to 17 years in federal prison and lifetime supervision.
The retired auditor for the California Department of Real Estate was arrested in 2004 at the airport in Los Angeles upon his return from the Philippines. Authorities said they found about 150 sexually explicit images of 18 teenage boys in his luggage and digital camera. Eight of the children were identified and located.
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Post by Sher on Jun 19, 2005 18:22:39 GMT -5
SAN JOSE, Calif. — A convicted child molester jailed in California may have committed sex crimes against thousands of victims, police said Thursday after finding computers, notebooks and meticulous, handwritten lists of boys' names and apparent codes for various sex acts. San Jose Police Lt. Scott Cornfield described 63-year-old Dean Arthur Schwartzmiller (search) as "one of the most active child molesters we've ever seen." During a search of his bedroom in San Jose (search), police discovered binders full of child porn and numerous logs with lists of more than 36,000 children's names — mostly boys — and codes that appear to indicate how he abused them. "If one-tenth of these numbers are accurate, we're looking at hundreds of victims in a number of states. The reason we want to tell the world about this is because we believe he's been involved in child molestations in a number of countries," Cornfield said. Schwartzmiller was being held without bail on one count of aggravated sexual assault on a child and six counts of lewd and lascivious conduct on a child, with each count alleging multiple victims. He was arrested in Washington state late last month and sent to San Jose on June 7. A message left for his public defender was not immediately returned Thursday. Authorities said Schwartzmiller apparently gained the trust of victims and parents by working as a home renovation contractor. San Jose police got involved after he allegedly befriended at least two boys in the city with gifts, invited them to his house for video games and movies, and molested them. Schwartzmiller apparently did not register as a sex offender, so his history did not appear in the "Megan's Law" databases in California or other states, authorities said. "It's as shocking to me as to you," said Sgt. Tom Sims, a supervisor with the department's child exploitation division. "I've never seen anything like this." Although police said Schwartzmiller appears to have spent much of the past 30 years in California, he has been arrested on child molestation charges in New York, Arkansas and Washington. He also served prison time in Idaho for child molestation in the late 1970s, and is wanted in Oregon on sexual assault charges involving a minor. In the 1980s, he lived in Brazil, and was extradited from there to Idaho again in the later part of the decade to serve more time, Cornfield said. Police believe he may have victims in Brazil and Mexico. Authorities also arrested Schwartzmiller's roommate, another convicted child molester wanted for violating parole in Oregon. Fred Everts was charged with child molestation in San Jose. In a separate case, Edilberto Datan, a 61-year-old San Diego man who has admitted to traveling to his native Philippines and having sex with eight underage boys, was sentenced Thursday to 17 years in federal prison and lifetime supervision. The retired auditor for the California Department of Real Estate was arrested in 2004 at the airport in Los Angeles upon his return from the Philippines. Authorities said they found about 150 sexually explicit images of 18 teenage boys in his luggage and digital camera. Eight of the children were identified and located. SAN FRANCISCO, California (AP) -- Despite being arrested at least nine times for molesting boys, Dean Arthur Schwartzmiller managed to avoid lengthy prison terms, coach youth football, move in with another convicted sex offender -- and be named by authorities as one of the most prolific child molesters in history. Schwartzmiller's criminal record began 35 years ago, but he never registered as a sex offender and spent just 12 years in prison. In his time on the outside, police suspect he molested children as many as 36,000 times in several states, Mexico and Brazil. Wily, charismatic and "smarter than heck," is how James Kevan, one of his defense lawyers in the mid-1970s, described Schwartzmiller on Friday. "He could write up legal documents better than most lawyers." Often defending himself in court, Schwartzmiller got two of his four convictions overturned, even though the Idaho Supreme Court called him a repeat offender who "uses his intelligence to take advantage of the weak and oppressed and those who are in need." With Schwartzmiller, 63, being held without bail on charges involving two San Jose boys, police and the FBI are trying to retrace his movements over the last 30 years. A search of Schwartzmiller's San Jose home turned up spiral-bound notebooks with notes on more than 36,000 encounters with children, in categories such as "Blond Boys," "Cute Boys" and "Boys who say no" -- together with codes appearing to indicate how he abused them, San Jose Police Lt. Scott Cornfield said. Messages left for Schwartzmiller's public defender last week were not returned. In court records released Friday, authorities said Schwartzmiller lived for five years with another convicted sex offender whom he met in jail -- Freddie Everts, 34. The pair allegedly lured boys to their home with gifts including skateboards, video games and a motor bike. Everts said Schwartzmiller claimed to be dying from an undisclosed illness and was keeping notes on his "encounters with boys" for a manuscript, according to court records. Everts is in jail on charges he failed to register as a sex offender. Kevan -- the former attorney who was later disbarred -- after having drug problems, he says -- said he knew Schwartzmiller as Tim Miller, one of his dozen or so aliases, when they both lived in Mountain Home, Idaho, a small town near the Sawtooth Mountains. 'No one suspected a thing' When they first met, Schwartzmiller was coaching a youth football team. "I helped him coach," Kevan said. "The parents all thought he was great. No one suspected a thing." In retrospect, there were signs something was wrong -- like the time he took the team to a game in Boise, and they "stopped in the desert to do a jock strap check." Kevan said he was not on the bus at the time, and only later realized that Schwartzmiller may have been picking out potential victims. By that point, Schwartzmiller had already been convicted of molesting boys. His record appears to date back to 1970, when he was convicted in Alaska of lewd and lascivious conduct with three teen boys. He was sentenced to two years' probation, then indicted again two years later for molesting another boy -- but he apparently fled the state before he could be tried. Over the years, Schwartzmiller was convicted of molestation charges at least four times, but was acquitted once and avoided prosecution on other charges. When he first came to authorities' attention, there were no Megan's Laws or three-strikes laws, and Americans were less aware of the ramifications and the severity of child sexual abuse. He called on Kevan for help when he was facing trial in Idaho in the 1970s on charges he molested two 13-year-old boys. "I said, 'You've got to tell me what's going on.' He told me everything," Kevan said -- outlining a history of molesting boys from Alaska down the West Coast. Even then, Schwartzmiller had been keeping notebooks of his victims, with "a couple hundred" boys' names, followed by numbers that described each boy's anatomy, Kevan said. Investigators didn't understand notebooks "The investigators didn't know what they meant. They didn't even take them," Kevan said. "I told him to get rid of them." Mountain Home Police Capt. Dave Pursell, who was on the force at the time, said he had no information about the notebooks. But he remembers Schwartzmiller well. "He brought several suits against the sheriff here, and against the state and against anybody and everybody. In Idaho statutes there's a lot of case law related to Mr. Schwartzmiller." Schwartzmiller spent about two years in prison on the Idaho charges before he appealed his conviction to the Idaho Supreme Court and won in 1978. The following year two 14-year-old boys said he molested them and he fled again -- this time to Oregon, where he was arrested again, accused of bringing a boy from Little Rock, Aranksas, to San Francisco in June 1980. Authorities said Schwartzmiller had forced the boy into prostitution. But the U.S. Attorney's office deferred prosecution to authorities in Idaho, where he served another six years in prison for molesting boys. By that time, Kevan had been disbarred, so he hired another attorney, Lance Churchill, who now works for a real estate company in Boise. "He was famous as one of the best prison lawyers in Idaho," Churchill said. "He was respected because if an inmate needed help in a legal case, he would help them out. If he saw an injustice he would try to help the inmate. He was pretty well-liked out there." In the years after Schwartzmiller was set free in 1987, he was arrested at least four more times for abusing children. He served three more years in Oregon, got out, was repeatedly arrested for violating parole and allegedly abusing other children, won an acquittal in Washington state, and fled rather than face arrest on another warrant in Oregon. Joan Cavagnaro, the deputy prosecutor who tried the Washington case, said she had no doubt about Schwartzmiller's guilt, though she had no evidence like that found in the notebooks. Child abuse cases can be difficult to prosecute, Cavagnaro said, particularly when suspects target victims from troubled homes. "Touching does not leave physical evidence," she said. "So you have one person's word against another and in the context of chaotic, dysfunctional family settings, this makes it a very difficult crime to prove."
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Post by Sher on Jun 22, 2005 14:43:34 GMT -5
SAN DIEGO -- Arraignment is scheduled Wednesday for a 28-year-old man accused of robbing migrant workers repeatedly on roadsides near his Rancho Penasquitos home, once while posing as a law officer, authorities said.
Justin Wayne Dowdell is expected to appear at 1:30 p.m. at the downtown San Diego courthouse, where he will enter a plea on three counts of robbery and one count each of kidnapping and impersonating a peace officer, San Diego County sheriff's officials said.
He was being held in lieu of $180,000 at San Diego Central Jail.
San Diego police arrested Dowdell Monday in connection with three strong-arm thefts involving day laborers in the Rancho Penasquitos area, SDPD reported.
The first occurred June 2 in the 12900 block of La Tortola. According to SDPD, Dowdell took $350 from two victims.
The second took place June 10 in the 12600 block of La Tortola. A man who said he was "police," drove two victims (one was a victim in the June 2 case) a short distance away and took a cap from one of them.
The third incident took place June 19 in the 15100 block of Salmon River Road. One victim was robbed of nearly $1,800 in pesos and U.S. currency by a man who threatened to kill the victim, SDPD reported.
Police report Dowdell has been staying at a residence in the 12200 block of Rancho Penasquitos Boulevard. His occupation is unknown.
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Post by Sher on Jun 24, 2005 13:14:56 GMT -5
SAN DIEGO -- The San Diego Police Department is searching for a missing high-risk offender, it was reported Friday. Search: California Sex Offenders An arrest warrant was issued June 21 for 47-year-old Anthony Joseph Morales. He is registered as a sex offender but never completed his registration requirements, 10News reported. Morales was convicted of attempted assault to commit rape by force and burglary, and police believe he could commit similar crimes. Morales is 5 feet 7 inches tall and weighs about 185 pounds. He has a tattoo of a teardrop by his right eye, a peathingy tattoo on his left arm and the name "Tony" tattooed on his right arm. Anyone with any information on his whereabouts is urged to call police at (619) 531-2000. www.10news.com/news/4648119/detail.html?subid=22100481&qs=1;bp=t
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Post by Sher on Jun 27, 2005 15:16:42 GMT -5
Searchers Find Unidentified Body In Wreckage Man Disappears While Exploring The Yukon POSTED: 7:09 pm PDT June 26, 2005 UPDATED: 1:06 pm PDT June 27, 2005 SAN DIEGO -- Crews discover a body while searching for a missing 50-year-old scuba diving instructor who disappeared while diving near a sunken ship off Mission Beach. Lifeguards said the body was found near the bottom of the ship in a "challenging, small" space. Steven O. Donathan was reported missing at about 6:25 p.m. Saturday after he was 35 minutes overdue from his dive near the sunken Canadian destroyer Yukon, lifeguard Sgt. Troy Keach said. The initial report prompted a 40-minute search of the area by the crew of a U.S. Coast Guard cutter and lifeguard divers, lifeguard Lt. John Greenhalgh said. Donathan was last seen at a depth of at least 75 feet, where only the most experienced divers go when at the Yukon, Keach said. Thirty divers from various agencies searched for Donathan Sunday, Keach said. About 60 dives were made, with 90 percent of the interior of the ship and a large amount of the perimeter covered, Keach said. "For someone as experienced as Steve, the Yukon should have been a piece of cake," said Steve Haynes, former president of San Diego Council of Divers, who heard that the missing diver was Donathan. The 366-foot Yukon was intentionally sunk to a depth of 100 feet nearly five years ago as an artificial reef and an attraction for scuba divers. It was the site of a fatal dive in late 2000 when Monica Vila, a 41-year-old recreational diver, died as she descended toward the warship with two family members. Another experienced diver Mia Tegner, a 53-year-old marine biologist, died about a week later after diving on the Yukon and other sunken ships. Authorities say she ran out of air as she was coming to the surface, missing a decompression stop. Instead of heading to a hyperbaric chamber, investigators believe she grabbed another tank and dove back in to decompress and was never seen alive again. www.10news.com/news/4654080/detail.html?subid=22100481&qs=1;bp=t
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Post by Sher on Jun 27, 2005 15:17:07 GMT -5
Man Shoves Brother From Moving Car; Runs Him Over Victim In Critical Condition
POSTED: 10:52 am PDT June 27, 2005 UPDATED: 10:57 am PDT June 27, 2005
SAN DIEGO -- A man was in critical condition Monday after his brother shoved him out a moving car, then ran him over on a stretch of freeway in Ocean Beach, San Diego police said Monday.
The suspect shoved the victim out of the vehicle, then ran him over on the westbound side of Interstate 8 near the Nimitz Boulevard exit around 3:45 p.m. Sunday, Sgt. Diane Wendell said.
The victim was taken to a San Diego hospital, where he was in critical condition, Wendell said.
California Highway Patrol and San Diego police officers surrounded the suspect's home in the 2200 block of West Dunlop Street around 5:45 p.m. Sunday, then arrested him after a brief standoff on suspicion of attempted murder, Wendell said.
The suspect's name and the motive for the attack were not immediately reported.
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Post by Sher on Jun 29, 2005 12:55:53 GMT -5
BAKERSFIELD -- Jesus Lopez walked out to his mailbox on June 15 and ended up in the hospital instead. Now, he's fighting for his life after being beaten by up to 12 men. And it's being called a hate crime.
Police say the 49-year-old man and his nephew were walking to the apartment complex mailbox when he passed a group of young black men who made a racial remark to Lopez. A fight ensued, which is when Lopez's nephew ran for help. Although police believe up to a dozen men may have been involved in the beating, two were the main instigators, one of whom is now in custody.
On Monday, police arrested Daniel Shepherd in connection with the beating. Shepherd was charged with attempted murder and assault with a deadly weapon. He's being held at the downtown jail on $250,000 bail.
Meanwhile, police are still looking for any other suspects in the crime. If you have any information, please call Bakersfield police at 326-3873 or the Secret Witness Program at 322-4040.
Lopez is in critical condition at Kern Medical Center.
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Post by Sher on Jun 30, 2005 15:27:33 GMT -5
Good Samaritan Interrupts Brutal Attack Man Allegedly Attacks, Stabs Ex-Girlfriend, Mother
POSTED: 8:26 am PDT June 29, 2005 UPDATED: 9:22 am PDT June 29, 2005
NATIONAL CITY, Calif. -- A young man was jailed on suspicion of stabbing his ex-girlfriend and her mother Tuesday during a confrontation at the victims' South Bay apartment, authorities reported.
Omar Mejia Marquez, 18, allegedly pulled a knife while arguing with Nereida Reyes, 21, at her home in the 2500 block of A Avenue in National City about 9:45 a.m., according to police.
Marquez allegedly slashed her in the face, neck and abdomen, then attacked Audora Espinoza, 57, when she tried to come to the aid of her daughter, National City Police Department Sgt. Mike Harlan said.
A short time later, a passerby heard the commotion, hurried into the residence, grabbed Marquez and held him until patrol officers arrived, the sergeant said.
Medics took Reyes to a hospital, where she was admitted in serious condition, Harlan said.
Espinoza was treated at an emergency ward for superficial wounds to her abdomen, chest and back.
The good Samaritan was uninjured.
Marquez was booked on suspicion of two counts of attempted murder, the sergeant said.
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