Former Attorney Back in Jail
Former Carlsbad attorney Michael Theodore Pines, 60, was taken back into custody last month, according to online records of the San Diego County Sheriff. Charges listed on the sheriff’s website include stalking and making criminal threats. In past court appearances, …
Two Arsonists Make Plea Deal
Two young men avoided possible life sentences in a plea deal today, April 13, when they admitted setting a fire last summer that consumed more than 14,000 acres, injured 18 firemen, and caused more than $15 million in property damage, …
Jury: Vista Man Guilty of Rape
Jeremy Ryan Stutzman, 34, was declared guilty of rape and false imprisonment and sexual battery by restraint at the end of the court day yesterday, April 10. The jury unanimously found the repeat offender guilty of thirteen different counts, including …
Four Years Sentence for Fatal Hit-And-Run
John Francis Sudac Jr. was sentenced to four years and eight months today for vehicular manslaughter and hit-and-run causing death, in connection with a night-time freeway crash three years ago, January 2009. Sudac had been free on bail since the …
Oceanside Teen, 16, Accused of Shooting Other, 17
A 16-year-old boy was inside rival gang-territory in Oceanside, marking walls there with his own gang’s graffiti, when he abruptly came face-to-face with a resident teen who recognized him, and that’s when the invader fired his shotgun, according to testimony …
Sad Testimony of a Woman's Last Days
A parade of five self-described drug addicts testified today in a hearing for two men charged in the death of a 20-year-old woman whose body was found last February, off a dead-end road near Lawrence Welk Village in San Diego’s …