December 26, 2017 (Washington D.C.) – U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions has rescinded on Obama-administration guideline that advised local courts against imposing excessive fines and fees on poor people.
December 19, 2017 (El Cajon) – El Cajon Police have arrested two adults and a juvenile in connection with the December 12th stabbing death of Kyle Khamphan and the attempted murder of a juvenile victim, says Lt. Rob Rainsweier, public information officer for ECPC.
November 24, 2017 (San Diego) – San Diego County Sheriff’s Deputy Richard Fischer has been placed on administrative leave pending investigation of complaints filed by several women alleging sexual misconduct including sexual assaults.
By Ken Stone, Times of San Diego, a member of the San Diego Online News Association.
November 23, 2017 (San Diego) - Sheriff Bill Gore recalls sitting at work this summer, listening to Carl DeMaio on his KOGO radio talk show.
November 21, 2017 (Santee) – Travis Haddix has been arrested and charged with attempted murder after allegedly stabbing his wife multiple times in the parking lot of Olive Garden in Santee.
November 14, 2017 (San Diego) -- Another mass shooting has occurred, this time northern California, where a gunman killed four people and injured 10 before being shot dead in a shoot-out with law enforcement on Tuesday.
November 13, 2017 (Alpine) - A suspect who fled from Sheriff’s deputies after allegedly trying to steal gas or tampering with county gas pumps on Tavern Road in Alpine this morning has crashed the Toyota Camry he was driving and wound up air lifted to a trauma center.
November 7, 2017 (San Diego’s East County) – A man suspected of savagely stabbing a female delivery driver, 35, this morning at a convenience store in La Mesa has been taken into custody. Sheriff’s deputies are investigating whether he may be linked to another woman found stabbed this morning in El Cajon.
The chilling sequence of events began shortly after 3 a.m. when a Frito Lay delivery truck driver was stabbed repeatedly outside of the 7-Eleven store on Avocado Boulevard in unincorporated La Mesa. She staggered into the store, where she collapsed after telling a clerk she’d been attacked, 10 News reports.
November 3, 2017 (Ramona) – Sheriff's deputies from the Ramona Station responded to a call of an assault with a deadly weapon last night at 5:53 p.m. at the Stage Stop Liquor store located at 578 Main Street in Ramona.
November 1, 2017 (Santee) – Grady Neel has been arrested for reportedly shooting a man in the upper torso Monday night near 9872 Shirley Gardens Drive in Santee.
Sheriff’s deputies found the suspect walking in the complex. He was unarmed and taken into custody without incident. The gun used in the shooting was later found by deputies in Neel’s residence, says Lieutenant Anthony O’Boyle.
Photo: A Probation Officer administers a test that checks for alcohol on an offender.
November 1, 2017 (San Diego) - The San Diego County Probation Department will use a half-million dollar grant to keep high-risk DUI offenders from getting behind the wheel again.
November 1, 2017 (El Cajon) – El Cajon resident Darius Demon Lake, 27, is under arrest for suspicion of committing eight bank robberies in San Diego County and one in Temecula, Walt Miller with the El Cajon Police Department reports. A second suspect, Brian Lee Barkley, also of El Cajon, was arrested for participating in one of three El Cajon bank heists. “During that robbery, physical evidence was left by both suspects linking them to the robberies,” Miller says.
October 26, 2017 (Spring Valley) – The AM/PM gas station at 9065 Campo Road was robbed at gunpoint yesterday at 5:29 p.m. According to Sheriff’s Sergeant Michael Hettinger, the suspect pointed a handgun at a cashier and a second employee, ordering them not to move. He took an undisclosed amount of money and is believed to have fled in a black Ford Explorer driven by an accomplice.
October 24, 2017 (San Diego's East County) - Looking to get rid of unwanted and expired prescription drugs? The San Diego County Sheriff’s Department will collect and dispose of these medicines during the Drug Enforcement Administration’s (DEA) National Prescription Drug Take Back Day.
October 21, 2017 (El Cajon) –A $1,000 reward is offered for information leading to arrest of a suspect who assaulted and strangled a woman last night on a hillside trail east of Starlight Mobile Home park iat 351 East Bradley n unincorporated El Cajon. The victim reported that the suspect wrapped a cable-like rope around her neck, nearly causing her to lose consciousness.
Fortunately she was able to escape from the suspect’s hold; she last saw him running toward the hillside, says Sergeant Miguel Lopez.
Sheriff’s dispatch received a 911 call at 9:16 p.m. Friday night, October 20th reported the assault with a deadly weapon. The suspect was described as a black male, approximately six feet tall, in his mid-thirties wearing a blue plaid shirt and baggy jeans.