A surfer out late into the night had to be saved by San Diego lifeguards but did not survive when he passed away at a hospital last night. 

The 50-year-old man from La Jolla, experienced serious medical trauma while out in the ocean, authorities reported. A hospital spokeswoman informed officials that the surfer was William J. Ryan.

Ryan was found by other surfers in the area with his face down in the water and not responding on his board in the water around 5:50 p.m. close to Tourmaline Surfing Park in Pacific Beach, lifeguard Lt. Andy Lerum reported. They signaled towards the shore in order to get assistance. 

Lifeguards paddled out to sea and pulled the man in to shore, who was not breathing or responding. They used CPR and a defibrillator to try and revive the man until the paramedics showed up and transported him to a hospital in La Jolla. 

A county Medical Examiner’s Office investigator announced  that Ryan had passed away at the hospital.

A group of investigators looked through the living quarters of four Camp Pendleton Marines who were thought to have been responsible for the murder of a fellow Marine and his wife in October. During the inspection, authorities came across wedding rings that belonged to the couple, along with their watches and clothes, homicide detectives reported Tuesday. 

The testimony was given at the second part of the preliminary hearing for Kevin Cox, Emrys John, Tyrone Miller and Kesaun Sykes at the Riverside County Southwest Justice Center in Murrieta.

The men are facing charges of torture and shooting in the murder of  Sgt. Jan Pietrzak and Quiana Jenkins-Pietrzak on Oct. 15 in their Winchester home. Prosecutors are arguing for the men to receive the death penalty. 

Pietrzak was acquainted with the men through their military connection at Camp Pendleton. Marine officials have driven out Cox, John, Miller and Sykes from the military ever since the incident. 

The case has triggered much conversation about whether the murder had to do with race or not. Pietrzak was a white man and his wife was black, there is evidence in the home that the murderers spray-painted racial slurs on the walls inside. 

Superior Court Judge Judith Clark scheduled the second hearing for August 6, at that time the  set the next hearing date for Aug. 6, when the claims of innocence from Miller, Cox and Sykes are supposed to be given.

According to online postings, the birth certificate for Prince Michael Jackson II reveal that he was born Feb. 21, 2002, at Sharp Grossmont Hospital in El Cajon. His father is stated to be Michael Jackson, but the mother’s name is not written. 

Sharp has gotten numerous phone calls asking him about the birth, reported John Cihomsky, vice president of public relations and communications for the Sharp HealthCare network of hospitals.

“We’ve given the same answer to everyone: We have no information to provide about Michael Jackson or his children, and we will not be providing any commentary on the matter,” Cihomsky stated Tuesday night.

Apart from that, he acknowledged that Dr. Conrad Murray, who is the cardiologist that was working on Jackson right before he died, had been working at Sharp Memorial Hospital in San Diego a few years ago. Cihomsky added that he was unaware of any disciplinary measures against Murray at that time.

 A air conditioner undergoing problems is thought to be the cause of a fire late Tuesday afternoon at a Mission Valley office building, authorities reported. One woman suffered smoke inhalation as a result. 

The blaze was called in around 4:50 p.m. at the three-story building located at 3435 Camino del Rio South, reported San Diego Fire-Rescue Department spokesman Maurice Luque. The building is located off Interstate 8 and between Interstates 805 and 15.

The blaze started in an office that was left empty. Someone was going to move in on Tuesday, Luque stated.  

Firefighters extinguished the fire in an estimated four minutes, but there was still a large amount of damage due to smoke on the second floor, where other offices are located, Luque said.

Around 60 to 70 people were at work in the building during the time of the fire, Luque stated. Everyone was evacuated from the building without a problem besides one woman who was consumed by smoke as she was on her way out. She is expected to survive, he added.

The fire caused damage of about $50,000 to contents inside and $100,000 to the building itself. 

Around 35 firefighters were sent to the location. The first crew to show up at the scene witnessed the air condition and carpet in flames, Luque reported.

A man who was both a minister and music teacher, admitted he was guilty of child molestation and was sent to serve 17 years and four months in jail on Tuesday afternoon.  

The 48-year-old, Jimmie “Xray” Robinson Jr.,  Los Angeles resident, was taken into custody in April after a boy informed police in September that he had been sexually assaulted. 

He entered a guilty plea, admitting to three felony child abuse charges in three different cases with three boys. In two of the cases the boys were 14-years-old and in the other one was 15-years-old. The first initial abuses occurred in San Diego and the third in El Cajon.

He was introduced to all three boys through church events in which he volunteered as a mentor, officials stated. 

Judge Peter Deddeh set a hearing date scheduled a hearing on the issue of restitution payments for Sept. 4.

Jimmie worked as a volunteer mentor for boys in both the San Diego and Riverside areas. A DNA test revealed that he was guilty in each case, officials stated. He was taken into custody while at Living Word Faith Ministries on Market Street in downtown San Diego by members of the U.S. Marshal’s Regional Fugitive Task Force.

El Cajon police officials reported that during his arrest, Robinson took advantage of his position in the church to use it to get close to young and troubled boys.

A 57-year-old man with diabetes was hurt while riding on a charter sportfishing boat last night when he passed out and struck his head on the deck of the boat, authorities reported.  

The Royal Polaris Sportfishing boat, which goes out on a one-and-a-half-day excursions, came back to San Diego after the man had his incident around 6:15 p.m., reported Nicola Lesourd of the Coast Guard.

According to Lesourd, the crew helped the man by feeding him and providing soda after he became conscious once again. Authorities came to the conclusion that calling a rescue crew was not needed. After the boat had taken the man back to the San Diego Harbor Police dock, it went back out to sea to finish up the rest of the excursion. It is to come back to San Diego tomorrow morning, Lesourd stated.

Police were searching for a driver or possibly drivers who hit two female pedestrians over the weekend and then stole their purses afterward. 

The first theft was called in at 5:20 p.m. Friday in a parking lot by a Target store on Broadway by Palomar Street, reported Chula Vista police spokesman Bernard Gonzales.

The woman informed police that she had been hit by either a blue or green colored Dodge Ram pickup. She was not hurt in the incident.  

Another theft of the same nature was called in around 3:17 p.m. Saturday in a parking lot next to Bed Bath & Beyond on East H Street, near Terra Nova Drive in the Terra Nova Plaza shopping center. The woman reported that she was hit and fell to the ground by a gray van. She was not hurt in the incident either. 

Anyone with information about the robberies is asked to call police at (619) 691-5151.

A 53-year-old man was taken into custody after he tried to sneak cocaine and methamphetamine worth an estimated $66,000 on the streets through a Border Patrol checkpoint, officials reported Monday.

The man, who is a citizen of Mexico, pulled up to the checkpoint driving a Buick LeSabre around 2:45 p.m. on Friday. According to agents, the man looked uneasy and uncomfortable and continued to change his answers when he was questioned.  

Both the driver and the car were turned over to officials for further speculation and to undergo a second examination. While carrying out the check, agents saw that the carpet, floor molding and rocker panels of the car looked strange, officials reported. 

Authorities noticed an opening in the side panel and looked to find a package holding 1.45 pounds of cocaine.

Officials reported finding two other plastic containers holding 2.35 pounds of methamphetamine stashed in the side panel of the car. 

The man had the correct passport and paperwork to travel throughout the U.S. in accordance with the law but was taken into custody and handed over to agents in the anti-drug task force department.

Two more people of San Diego County have passed away from the swine flu, reported county health officials on Monday.  

The two who died victims of the swine flu were a 49-year-old woman and a 75-year-old man. County health officials reported that they would talk about the deaths in a news conference to be held in San Diego at 1:30 p.m.

After the swine flu death of the 20-year-old Escondido resident Adela Chevalier, county health officials announced the conference two weeks following.

A 40-year-old hiker had to be saved yesterday by a sheriff’s helicopter crew after he fell to the ground from heat exhaustion during his hike on a trail that leads to Cedar Creek Falls, located southeast of San Diego Country Estates by Ramona.

Emergency officials received a call around 4:30 p.m. and an ASTREA helicopter with a hoist was sent to the location by the  Eagle Peak parking area around 5 p.m. They originally flew the hiker to a Cal Fire station in Ramona, then an ambulance transported him to a hospital following that, sheriff’s officials reported.