Vista archive for June, 2012

Busy Young Repeat Felon Back In Custody

Two years ago, Ernesto Roberto Salinas was released from custody on the condition that he live in his mother’s home ...

Guilty Plea From Escondido Stabber

Alexander John Twedt, 29, pleaded guilty yesterday to attempted murder and causing great bodily injury. A year ago, in the ...

Laundry Day At Santa Fe House

Here at Santa Fe House, one of the rules is that you have to get your laundry done at least ...

“I find that, frankly, kind of insulting,” Judge Maino said.

This stopped the attorney who was suggesting that the judge had already made up his mind, before the end of ...

Family Loyalties Divided After Shooting

Testimony today suggested that two sisters who ear-witnessed a shooting last April now have a strained relationship, because one sister ...

Disbarred Attorney Promises to Behave

A former Carlsbad attorney has been disbarred in California, one week after a judge in a downtown San Diego courtroom ...

Righteous beer or the folly of money...?

“Let's open a brewery, we'll make lots of money.”A popular refrain heard among the patrons here at my local brew ...

California Fugitive Arrested in New Mexico

Pictured: Booking photo of Elizabeth Sheldon-Masters, 44, from New Mexico. Authorities in New Mexico have taken into custody a woman ...

Weekend Debut Set for Mother Earth Tap House

I was packing my bags for Portland, Oregon, when suddenly my iPhone buzzed. An email had just come in from ...

Local News Media Battle DA in Court For Public Access

San Diego television station KFMB News 8 is leading a court challenge, battling the District Attorney’s office trying to gain ...

SoCal’s Rennfest and Highland Games

The tents had been erected on twenty acres at the Santa Fe Dam Recreation Area in Irwindale for the month ...

Brawl at School Carnival Turned Into Stabbing

A carnival hosted at Fallbrook High School two weeks ago degenerated into a brawl which then escalated into a stabbing, ...

Deputy: Felon Said The Rifle Was A Fair Trade

A repeat felon told the Sheriff’s deputy that the rifle found alongside his bed was dropped off by somebody who ...

Man Who Mailed Heroin Into Jail Gets Sentenced

Lee Edward Amesquita, 37, was sentenced to 8 years prison this morning, for three separate counts of mailing heroin into ...

Fugitive Wanted On Murder Charges Arraigned

Ruben Anthony Cepeda, 21, is accused of putting a gun to the belly of the woman carrying his baby and ...

69-Year-Old Man Denies Child Abuse Charges

Corazon Paulino Flores is on trial in San Diego’s North County Superior Courthouse, charged with more than 40 counts of ...

Dig a Hole: Dick Beals, Escondido Resident and Voice of Ralph Phillips, Gumby, & Speedy Alka Seltzer

http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/jun/05/25677/ Plop-plop, fizz-fizz, I now know what grief is. He stood only 4' 6", but the everlastingly boyish Dick Beals ...