Crime
Holiday Watch now in effect
By Shelli DeRobertis COAST CITIES — Deputies, city staff members and volunteers are working the streets and busy shopping centers as part of Sheriff Bill Gore’s Holiday Watch that aims to keep citizens safe and reduce crime during the holiday season. The countywide program began Nov. 25 and ends on New Year’s Day, and includes [...]
Trial date set in fatal alleged DUI crash
CARLSBAD — A judge found enough evidence at a hearing Nov. 9 for a young woman to stand trial for the alleged drunken crash that killed a 64-year-old man as he bicycled to his job at a nearby hotel. Authorities say Julianne Elyse Thomson, 23, was driving while intoxicated on July 27 when her Ford [...]
County district attorney commits suicide
OCEANSIDE — A distraught district attorney shot herself in the head in her car near a Starbucks at the 2100 block of Vista way on Nov. 10, at 6:36 p.m. as a Carlsbad Police officer talked to her through the driver’s window of her vehicle. Authorities said that Christine Trevino, 51, of Escondido, made threats [...]
Henderson recants insanity plea
VISTA — Dontaye Henderson, 29, was back in court Oct. 25 for a readiness conference after pleading not guilty by reason of insanity at a hearing the previous week. But he changed his plea, again. “Today he withdrew his NGRI (not guilty by reason of insanity) plea and changed it to a regular not guilty [...]
Stutzman to stand trial Nov. 3
VISTA — A sex offender parolee was ordered to stand trial at a hearing Oct. 19 on charges he raped two young women and kidnapped one of them overnight before dropping her off at the apartment complex where he and both victims lived. San Diego County Superior Court Judge K. Michael Kirkman made a finding [...]
Two-year-old case to be retried
VISTA — The district attorney’s office is retrying a case more than two years after a judge declared a mistrial for the woman accused of a drunken head-on collision that killed two North County couples traveling home from Pala Casino. Jurors previously deadlocked in favor of guilt that Deanna Fridley, 27, had been under the [...]
Man must stand trail for murder of bargoer
VISTA — The man arrested in Indiana four days after the March 25 murder of an Oceanside man outside of a Carlsbad bar must stand trial on a murder charges, a judge ruled Oct. 12. During a preliminary hearing at the Vista Courthouse, San Diego County Superior Court Judge Runston Maino found enough evidence for [...]
Three people injured in Carlsbad shootings
CARLSBAD — Three people were shot and injured, by a man who got out of his car and opened fire on them as they were headed out for an evening walk Oct. 10 on the 3400 block of Madison Street. The shooting is considered to be gang-related, although the victims have no gang-ties, according to [...]
Low-level criminals going to jail instead of prison
COAST CITIES — During the first week of the new law that aims to reduce the statewide prison-overcrowding problem, 18 convicted felons were sent to jail instead of prison to serve their sentences. Assembly Bills 109 and 117 were passed earlier this year to allow the state to shut the revolving door to low-level criminals who’ve [...]
Unearthed bones found to be historical
OCEANSIDE — Native American skeletal remains found underneath concrete steps of an Oceanside home at the 600 block of Monterey Street may soon be returned to rest in the ground they were unearthed from, according to the Native American Heritage Commission. On Sept. 21, Oceanside Police were dispatched to the Capistrano neighborhood after a construction [...]
