Burch better but not quite good enough yet
David Dodd 1:48 a.m., May 18
Tijuana
Tijuana club shooting leaves one dead, one wounded
Investigation finds gun used in seven killings
Two persons were shot at Tijuana’s Ruta 6 bar on Saturday night, March 9. According to reports in Tijuana's daily Frontera, one of the victims has died, while the other remains hospitalized, status unknown. Gunfire ...
Electrical outage affects 150,000 Baja residents
Suspected equipment thief found dead
A bizarre crime that claimed the life of an unidentified man who was apparently trying to steal electrical equipment from transmission towers east of Tijuana left the 65,000 residents of Tecate without power for more ...
Alleged wig-wearing thief captured in Tijuana
Brian accessorized, say police
Tijuana police say they arrested a man who allegedly disguised himself as a woman to steal from various businesses in the San Antonio de Los Buenos neighborhood. Officers captured 27-year-old Brian Roldán Cedillo at around ...
Bribery crackdown continues in Tijuana
Record amount of prosecutions
The longtime practice of offering Tijuana cops a little cash to buy your way out of a legal jam could now land you in jail. In a March 2 press release, the city's Department of ...
Tijuana resident finds magnetized pot parcels under car
Would have been fifth “blind mule” this year
The fifth case so far this year of a so-called "blind mule" was discovered on Thursday, February 28, in the Xicoténcatl Leyva Mortera neighborhood of Tijuana, police said in a press release. The term "blind ...
Brooms and rocks don’t settle squabble in Tijuana
Arrests made following non-payment for tortillas
A neighborhood brawl erupted Saturday, February 23, in Tijuana's Villas del Campo neighborhood after a woman swatted a child with a broom, leading to the arrest of five people. The affray began in the afternoon, ...
Would-be pimp slapped down by Tijuana police
Prostitutes threatened with violence
Police officers chased down and arrested a man on a downtown Tijuana street on Monday, February 18, after a young prostitute told them a customer had beaten and robbed her at a nearby hotel. In ...
Medical tourism slows in Tijuana
This year’s violence a factor
Upticks in violent events in Tijuana and Mexico have brought a sudden halt to an encouraging rise in medical tourism to Baja, says Dr. Karim Chalita Rodriguez II, president of a medical group known as ...
Tijuana police catch thief — the alleged victim did it
Bank-deposit holdup never happened
Tijuana's network of downtown police cameras proved to be the downfall for a 21-year-old woman and her male accomplice after she reported she had been robbed at knifepoint outside a downtown bank while trying to ...
Mexican men rescued from San Ysidro sewer pipe
Trapped for more than 12 hours
Four illegal immigrants were rescued from a sewage filled pipe by San Diego Fire and Rescue on the night of Wednesday, February 13. Afterward, the men were hosed off and handed over to Customs and ...
Jorge’s Xolos
Border born
Interview with journalist Jorge Aranguré, raised binationally, in Tijuana and southern San Diego County.
Mayor Bob Filner visits Tijuana
Discounts State Dept. warnings
Together with Tijuana mayor Carlos Bustamante and border entrepreneurs, on January 21 San Diego mayor Bob Filner dismissed U.S. State Department–issued travel-alert warnings for visitors to Tijuana and Mexicali. According to Uniradioinforma, Filner said, "I ...
Heard of the Baja-Med movement?
Ed says “What the heck” and orders the snail pizza
Snail pizza at Tijuana’s El Taller Baja-Mex Restaurant.
Tijuana waiter busted cloning credit cards
Restaurant unnamed in report
A waiter at a restaurant in the popular and upscale Zona Rio business district was recently busted by TJ police when it was discovered he was cloning patrons’ credit cards. The scam was discovered when ...
Alleged bus thief run over by bus in Tijuana
Driver pistol-whipped, leads to crash
Minutes after pistol-whipping a bus driver unconscious, an alleged thief was run over by the same bus he had just robbed in the Nueva Tijuana neighborhood of the city, the Tijuana daily Frontera reports. The ...
