By SDCN Editor Otay Mesa, CA–U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers assigned to the Otay Mesa Cargo Facility Saturday seized $38 million worth of methamphetamine within a shipment of kale. CBP officers encountered a 34-year-old male driver of a tractor-trailer around 12:08 p.m. with a shipment manifest for kale. During the initial inspection, an […]
FTC, DOJ charge Amazon with violating children’s privacy law
By SDCN Editor The Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice will require Amazon to overhaul its deletion practices and implement stringent privacy safeguards to settle charges the company violated the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act Rule (COPPA Rule) and deceived parents and users of the Alexa voice assistant service about its data deletion […]
Female inmate dies at women’s detention facility
By Gina Yarbrough San Diego, CA–A female inmate in custody at Las Colinas Detention and Reentry Facility died early Monday morning in her cell, the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department said. Sheriff’s homicide investigators were notified of the death of 32-year-old Roselee Bartolacci around 12:30 a.m. at the women’s facility in Santee. Bartolacci was arrested […]
DUI checkpoint nets 15 arrests in San Diego
By Gina Yarbrough San Diego, CA–San Diego police arrested 15 people suspected of DUI at a checkpoint Thursday in downtown San Diego, authorities said. Officers conducted the DUI and driver’s license checkpoint between the hours of 10 p.m. and 3 a.m. at 2475 Grand Avenue. During the checkpoint, approximately 755 vehicles were screened, 20 drivers […]
CBP seizes millions of dollars in narcotics in first quarter of 2023
By SDCN Editor San Diego, CA–U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers from the San Diego Field Office released data of seized varieties of narcotics worth an estimated quarter billion dollars from January 1 to April 30, federal authorities said. The San Diego Field Office reports that the narcotics seized were from ports of entry at […]
18-year-old man killed in rollover crash in Escondido
By SDCN Editor Escondido, CA–An 18-year-old man died from his injuries Thursday at a local hospital following a single-vehicle rollover crash in Escondido. Escondido police responded to the collision Wednesday on southbound North Center City Parkway south of North Nutmeg Street. According to investigators, the vehicle left the roadway, traveled up an embankment, and rolled […]
Suspect in San Diego Central Library fatal shooting arrested
By Gina Yarbrough San Diego, CA–San Diego police arrested Thursday a suspect in connection with two shootings, one fatal at the Central Library in downtown San Diego. The suspect, 21-year-old Kenneth Cheney, was taken into custody at 2:45 p.m., Cheney was located in the area of University Avenue and the I-15 Freeway. Detectives are in […]
El Cajon Police to hold DUI checkpoint
By Gina Yarbrough El Cajon, CA–The El Cajon Police Department will hold a DUI checkpoint in East County this weekend, authorities said. The checkpoint locations are chosen based on a history of DUI crashes and arrests in the city, El Cajon police said in a news release. Officers will operate the checkpoint on May 26 […]
Woman fatally struck in hit-and-run collision
By Gina Yarbrough Lemon Grove, CA–A female pedestrian was fatally struck by a vehicle Wednesday at an intersection in Lemon Grove, authorities said. Deputies responded to a report of a traffic collision, just after 12:30 a.m., at the intersection of Broadway and Harris Street. Deputies found a 40-year-old woman who had been struck by a […]
County Board Supervisors call District Four Special Election
By County News Center San Diego, CA–The Board of Supervisors made it official Tuesday and called an Aug. 15 special primary election for the Fourth Supervisorial District. Voters in District 4 will fill a supervisorial seat that became vacant when the former supervisor resigned on May 15. Nearly 400,000 voters living in District 4 will […]
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