SPRING VALLEY–A telephone threat to an elementary school prompted a lockdown on Thursday at the campus, the San Diego Sheriff’s Department said. The call was reported shortly after 2:30 p.m. at Bancroft Elementary, located at 8805 Tyler Street in Spring Valley. The male caller, possibly juvenile, stated there would be a shooting at the school […]

EL CAJON–A structure fire on Thursday damaged a commercial building and possibly injured a man in El Cajon, Heartland Fire and Rescue Department said. At 09:12 p.m., Heartland Fire and Rescue crews were dispatched to a report of a commercial fire in the 900 block of El Cajon Boulevard in El Cajon. Upon arrival fire […]

LAKESIDE–A shooting near the Interstate 8 freeway Monday afternoon left a passenger injured in El Cajon, the San Diego Sheriff’s Department said. The shooting was reported shortly before noon at the Shell Station located at 13538 Camino Canada in unincorporated El Cajon. Three victims who were driving southbound on Los Coches Road near the I-8 […]

LA MESA–A man shot earlier Thursday in an officer-involved shooting at in La Mesa has been identified, according to La Mesa Department. The suspect, 36-year-old Daniel Chase McKibben, was a person of interest in a homicide that occurred on Wednesday on Niagara Street in Ocean Beach, investigators said. The details on how McKibben was identified […]

LAKESIDE–The San Diego County Medical Examiner’s Office has released the name of a man found fatally shot last week at a mobile home park in Lakeside. The victim has been identified as 65-year-old George Hernandez from Lakeside. The cause of death was a gunshot wound, and the manner of death has been ruled a homicide, […]

SANTEE–Sheriff’s deputies are asking for the public’s assistance in identifying a man who attempted to lure a juvenile into his vehicle on March 28 in Santee. The incident was reported about 6 p.m. in the 8000 block of Poplin Drive.  A 9-year-old girl told detectives she was riding her bicycle when a man pulled up […]

SAN DIEGO–The County of San Diego, Department of Environmental Health has lifted the Boil Water advisory for the Rancho Corrido RV Resort water system in Pauma Valley. The water system, located at 14715 Highway 76, serves drinking water to 100 RV spaces, 20 mobile homes, manager residence, laundry room, public pool with restrooms, 130 campsites […]

SAN DIEGO–A female inmate who escaped Las Colinas Detention and Reentry Facility in Santee on April 6 was captured by authorities, the San Diego Sheriff’s Department said. On April 11, at about 10 p.m., Captain James Madsen of the Las Colinas Detention and Reentry Facility advised Sheriff’s Fugitive Unit detectives had taken recent jail escapee, […]