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Scott Marks 9:44 a.m., May 21
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Park, ride, regret
The Challenger disaster in Oceanside
Kevin Waddell didn’t know that transit authorities were watching him break into that spiffy Dodge Challenger at a North County Park & Ride.
Sprinter cameras catch nighttime thief at transit stop
The Dodge Challenger and the faux leather jacket.
On Friday, January 4 Jennifer parked her Dodge Challenger at a transit station in Oceanside, on El Camino Real. She was careful to park her two-door coupe directly under a surveillance camera, and then she ...
Meth, theft, and violence...the whole package
Sherri Lynn Difrancesco, caught with meth and syringes, seems also to have been caught with containers of pilfered jewelry.
Paradise Pizza proposal leads to engagement in Carlsbad
Hold the pepperoni and bacon
A longtime Carlsbad resident named Paul Carreon came up with a unique way to pop the question to his true love — in green pepper slices, on top of a pizza, amid black olives and ...
Not-so-neighborly gunfire on Herder Lane in Encinitas
Feud erupted into shooting last summer
A 44-year-old man and a teenaged boy who lived across the street from one another on Herder Lane in Encinitas vented their mutual dislike by shouting insults and trading obscenities for years. Last summer, the ...
I felt the bullet whiz past my ear
Guns 'n' stoners
A dope deal with a stranger goes — you guessed it — wrong!
He woke to a knife at his throat
The kidnapper wanted money, tools, and a señorita.
A scheme to extort money from an Oceanside car-repair shop goes sideways.
We don't bang
“We’re going for a walk.” “Oh, yeah?” Blam! Blam! Blam!
Three Carlsbad residents were shot in an unprovoked incident allegedly instigated by Luciano Velasquez.
Ex-boyfriend, meth, a knife, a death
Hot pizza started it, maybe more than one knife ended a conflict involving an ex-boyfriend, another man, and crystal meth in Escondido
Neighbor helps nab hit-and-runner
A hit-and-run driver in Rancho Santa Fe is reported by a neighbor who noticed extensive damage to the vehicle.
Three-time rapist earns 417 years
Escondido rapist Jeremy Ryan Stutzman said he hated it when his victims cried.
Vista Apartment Dweller Did Not Go Easily
It took five deputies, four bean-bag rounds, one taser, and a dog to extract a renter from an apartment in Vista, according to recent testimony in San Diego’s North County Superior Court. Toshio Suzuki, then ...
A Real Downer
Sergio Lopez fired a gun and eluded Escondido police but his defense attorney argued the gun was fired unintentionally. The jury went easy on him even though his record stretches back to when he was 15.
Man Tries to Kill Wife... Twice
Larry Hoagland never really believed in divorce.
How did Larry Hoagland manage to blow up his wife while he ran a business, raised children, and juggled a girlfriend? Oh, yeah. He didn’t. After many surgeries, she testified against him.
Don't Embarrass the Hells Angels
Thor, Angel of blunder.
Eric Wayne Thorsgard was in the worst possible situation. He was taken into custody, accused of beating up somebody in the alley outside a biker bar in Oceanside. That wasn’t the worst part. Eric is ...
Down, Down, Down for the Locos
The Vario Fallbrook Locos gang stabbed Kenneth Mose for being black and in their neighborhood.
Dontaye brought his wild man act to San Diego
“The reason why Dontaye has not cut his hair is because he is trying to portray a persona of a wild man to the guys in jail.”
“The reason why Dontaye has not cut his hair is because he is trying to portray a persona of a wild man to the guys in jail.” Dontaye Henderson’s mother wrote these words in 2003, ...
Fallbrook Flower (and Cabbage) Show
On Saturday afternoon, April 28, 12-year-old Jenna Blevens attended the Fallbrook Flower Show with her 74-year-old grandmother Eva Raines. “It’s a tradition,” said Raines, who has brought her granddaughter to the event for the past ...
Canine Capers Dog Show in San Marcos
The San Marcos Lions Club hosted their fifth annual Canine Capers Talent Show at Woodland Park on April 21, and a pair of newcomers took away the coveted Most Look-Alike trophy this year. When asked ...
Tokin’ and Chillin’, with Guns
Ruby likes the color red. On her day in court, she wore a red sweater and her hair was dyed a reddish color. Ruby (not her real name) is hiding from her former lover Robert ...
Murderer Gets 12 Years Added to Sentence for Stabbing Inmate
A man in jail awaiting sentencing for a murder stabbed another inmate and was sentenced on March 15 to 12 more years for the new offense. Joaquin Martinez, a.k.a. “Jaws,” now 34, admitted causing great ...
Jury Considers Sanity of Carlsbad Schoolyard Gunman
Most jurors deliberating the sanity of a murder defendant are voting that he did understand right from wrong at the time of the shooting, according to statements made in court on March 15 by Daniel ...
Man Arraigned for 2002 Oceanside Homicide
A 40-year-old man who has been hiding in Mexico for ten years was arraigned in the Vista courthouse on March 12. Fernando Herrera Salas, charged with murder, was implicated in the death of a man ...
Former Oceanside P.E. Teacher Back in Court for Probation Violation
A former physical education teacher for Oceanside High School admitted to a probation violation on March 6 at the Vista courthouse. Corey Lane Hogue, now 39, pleaded guilty in 2010 to having unlawful sexual contact ...
Construction Worker Testifies Against Brendan Liam O’Rourke
Construction worker Mario Contreras broke his hand on October 8, 2010, the day a gunman arrived at Kelly Elementary School in Carlsbad. “I broke it when I punched him,” testified 42-year-old Contreras at the Vista ...
Ex Carlsbad Attorney Patricia Gregory to Serve One Year in Jail
Two former clients of disbarred attorney Patricia Gregory had the satisfaction of seeing the admitted thief put into handcuffs in the Vista courthouse on February 24. The victims, Denise Doll and Luwain Ng, complained to ...
Convicted Killer Dontaye Henderson Gets 80 Years to Life
The mother of murdered 25-year-old Tamara Henderson told the killer, “I forgive you for killing my daughter and I pray for you.... I know that hating you would only eat me up inside.” When convicted ...
Angry Pizza Man
“I risked my own life to stop the crime and the criminal, and when it came time to get justice, I feel powerless against the DA’s office,” said pizza-shop owner Mychal Dourson.
Dourson’s bold moves to tackle and disarm a man who put a loaded handgun in his face during an attempted robbery made national news in February 2011. But Dourson said he is disappointed with a ...
Vista Woman Admits Stealing Books From County Libraries
A Vista woman accused of stealing thousands of books from libraries around San Diego County pleaded guilty to one count of “commercial burglary” in the Vista courthouse on February 20. An investigation reportedly started last ...
Escondido Bicyclist Found with “Scary” Weapon
A young man bicycling on Grand Avenue in Escondido was found to be carrying a “metal knuckles” weapon that had a folding four-inch blade appendage, according to testimony given by Escondido police officer Jason White ...
Employee Allegedly Took More Than $1 Million from Solana Beach Company
Jennifer Lyndi Davey, 64, accused of embezzling almost $1.5 million while she worked as an office manager in Solana Beach, was arraigned in the Vista courthouse on February 3. Davey pleaded not guilty to charges ...
Carlsbad Attorney Admits Taking Clients’ Funds for Personal Use
A former Carlsbad attorney admitted that she took money from two clients’ accounts and used those funds “for personal use,” according to a plea deal read in court by the judge on January 24. Patricia ...
The Long and Dangerous Day
On a mid-December morning in 2007, Deanna Fridley, a 23-year-old housewife, got up and fed her kids, got them dressed, and smoked some meth. “Midmorning sometime, yes. My cousin came over with some. We smoked ...
Attorney Found Passed Out in Car, Convicted of DUI
San Diego criminal defense lawyer Allen Robert Bloom, 61, was convicted of two DUI counts by a jury in the Vista courthouse on January 19. Deputy Andrew E. Dvorak testified that he could smell vomit ...
Alleged Oceanside Killer Was Seeking Next Female
Within hours of allegedly shooting his second wife in the chest with a gun, Dontaye Henderson texted a message to a woman in Alabama whom he had previously dated: “I’ve left my wife for good. ...
Alleged Purse-Snatcher Arraigned in Vista
An Escondido man who grabbed the purse of a woman in the parking lot of an Encinitas shopping center last week was out on bail for a drug-possession arrest three weeks earlier, a prosecutor said ...
One Last Piece of Mail at Las Colinas
Marion M. Lopez was picked up on a warrant sweep on February 23, 2011, and found herself in Las Colinas women’s detention facility in Santee. It was the 42-year-old’s third time in jail. On the ...
Escondido Police Nab Alleged Reckless Driver Who Had Cocaine
Police said they were doing one of their regular DUI “saturation patrols” in Escondido on December 2 when they saw a man driving toward them on the wrong side of the street. When police tried ...
Ten-Year Prison Term for Oceanside Bar Fight
An Oceanside man agreed to a ten-year prison term in a plea deal today, admitting to the assault of a man who died from a single punch to his head in an Oceanside bar on ...
Alleged Killer Michael David Robles Arraigned
A 43-year-old Fallbrook man was brought before a judge on November 30 and charged with strangling to death his ex-girlfriend on the eve of her birthday, November 23. Michael David Robles pleaded not guilty and ...
I Didn't Steal the Dog. I Rescued It.
Case of the Missing Canine
“She basically got caught up in an emotional dog rescue. That’s what this was,” said the defense attorney. “Miss Vukov, yes, took the dog.” Although Trina Vukov took the dog without permission, she had no ...
Alleged Oceanside Robbers Have a Day in Court
After the Oceanside police officer pulled over a white Oldsmobile on August 17 because it lacked a front license plate, he saw a handgun wrapped in a black bandana resting in the baby seat in ...
Fallbrook Man Guilty of Cutting Brake Cable
Forty-nine-year-old Leopaldo Lopez pleaded guilty to felony vandalism October 21 for reportedly cutting the emergency brake cable on a truck that was parked at the curb in front of a home in Fallbrook two weeks ...
Women Describe Rape and Kidnap in Vista
Two women, 19 and 20 years old, gave testimony in the Vista courthouse on October 19, describing an ordeal during which they said they were kidnapped and raped last May. The women said the 33-year-old ...
Salvadoran Man Charged with Violent Spree in Escondido
There was emotional testimony from three young Latinas in the Vista courthouse on October 11 as they described a night of rape, attempted robbery, and burglary in separate incidents that occurred in Escondido last May. ...
Oceanside Man Guilty of Murdering Mom, Sanity Undecided
Adam Brown is guilty of first-degree murder for plunging a kitchen knife into his mother’s head as she sat on the edge of her bed in their Oceanside home three years ago. The same jury ...
Carlsbad Man Admits Killing Parents with Machete
On January 18, 2008, Jean Gluck, 77, and Harry Gluck, 90, were found dead in their bed in the Carlsbad home they shared with their son, Dennis Brian Gluck. In the Vista courthouse on the ...
Alleged Murderer on Trial 22 Years After Shooting
Vicente Benites, originally from the Mexican state of Guerrero, shot and killed another man from Guerrero at an Escondido house party in 1989, according to prosecutor Natalie Villaflor. The cold-case murder trial started last week, ...
