Firefighters received a call to fight a brush fire that sprung up in Santee near the Sycamore Canyon Landfill.

The blaze started around 4:40 p.m. by Mast Boulevard and Medina Drive, a Heartland Fire dispatcher stated.

The San Diego Fire Rescue-Department’s two helicopters were dispatched to the location to drop water on the area. 

Radio traffic reported that the fire was tamed as of 5 p.m. and contained to one acre. The two helicopters were then issued to leave.

Authorities discovered a dead body, thought to have been a result of a suicide, inside an on fire BMW sedan in a Clairemont shopping mall Thursday after firefighters extinguished the fire, authorities reported. 

Several witnesses informed officials that they spotted the burning car behind the Kohl’s store located at Genesee Avenue and Mount Alifan Drive around 12:10 p.m., a San Diego Fire-Rescue Department dispatcher reported.

Other witnesses report seeing a man behind the wheel of the BMW cruising around the parking lot, then continuing behind the Kohl’s, San Diego police Lt. Jim Filley stated. 

“The next thing they saw was smoke,” Filley added. 

“The sense is, this is probably not death at the hands of another.”

Filley reported that it seemed that an accellerant or incendiary device was used to spark a fire, but the source is still being investigated. 

The dispatcher informed that firefighters extinguished the blaze and then discovered the body inside. Firefighters then contacted the Metro Arson Strike Team and San Diego police. 

The BMW was a light-colored, four-door and was parked in a narrow space between the back wall of the store and a parked semi-trailer.

A young woman was trapped underneath a moving stolen car on Sunday in her and her accomplices attempt to escape the Escondido police around 5 a.m. on Morning View Drive.

Police report that they were chasing a stolen Honda near Lincoln and Broadway when the driver and front passenger leaped from the moving car and took off running. 

Another passenger in the car, Mayra Virella, also attempted to jump out but became trapped under the instead. 

The 18-year-old was transported to Palomar hospital where she received aide for small internal wounds. She was let go from the hospital and is facing charges on suspicion of possessing a stolen vehicle, Escondido Sgt. Joaquin Naranjo stated. 

The other two people in the car escaped, Naranjo added.

Two paragliders dropped in mid-air by the Torrey Pines Gliderport at about 4:15 p.m., soaring to the ground and resulting in the injury of one individual. 

A lifeguard spokesman reported that one of the paragliders was able to land without an issue at the correct gliderport while the other, a 39-year-old male, smashed into the cliffs.

Rescuers had to scale down the cliffside to make the man ready to be transported by helicopter to Scripps Mercy Hospital in San Diego around 6:15 p.m.

The lifeguard spokesman added that he was in stable condition, but had serious trauma wounds to his shoulder and arm.

A fire sparked before dawn and severely burned a juice shop in La Jolla on Monday, fire officials reported.  

The fire was said to have been sparked by an air conditioning unit and was called in at 3:40 a.m. at Juice Kaboose on Fay Avenue near Pearl Street, the San Diego Fire-Rescue Department reported. 

The fire was put out 15 minutes after the call. The blaze resulted in about $100,000 in damage to the building and $50,000 to its contents, a dispatcher stated.

Police are looking for a man who is charged in a car theft involving a stolen Ford Taurus. The car was reported to have been taken from out front of a house located in Clairemont, then the driver returned to the scene and drove the car straight into the house, ultimately hurting a person inside. 

The incident took place at about 8:30 p.m. at a home on Clairemont Drive near Ute Drive, reported San Diego said police Officer Dino Delimitros.

“The suspect intentionally rammed another person standing in front of the house on a porch,” the officer added.

The 38-year-old victim was injured in the head and neck and was transported to a hospital for treatment. He is expected to survive and recover from his injuries, Delimitros said.

The attacker and thief fled into a canyon close by. Police blocked off an area and looked all throughout, but were unsuccessful in finding the 42-year-old man.

The Taurus had been taken from the home Monday morning. The assailant was “upset” at the victim for other reasons still to be understood, the officer stated.

The victim’s mother was within the home during the time of the incident, but was not hurt.

Two robbers stole from a Subway shop armed with guns on Monday evening, police reported. 

The men walked inside the fast food store located on University Avenue near Lowell Street around 9:15 p.m. and demanded the clerk to hand over the cash in the register. The clerk went along with what they asked and the men then took off west down University Avenue. No car was spotted. 

The clerk was not hurt in the incident. 

One robber was said to be a black male, around the age of 30, about 5 feet 10 inches tall, with facial hair and short messy hair. He was dressed in a dark-colored jacket, a white T-shirt and dark-colored pants. He was armed with a gun, police added.

The other robber was said to be black as well, with a black beanie cap, a dark-blue T-shirt and dark pants on.

Anyone with information is asked to contact La Mesa police at (619) 667-1400, or CrimeStoppers anonymously at (888) 580-8477, police are offering a reward of up to $1,000 for information leading to an arrest.

Lifeguards and firefighters joined to save a hurt man who was discovered on the floor of a 30-foot cliff at the end of E Street on Wednesday night. 

The man, who from his positioning was believed to have fallen off the cliff, was discovered around 7:40 p.m. about two blocks south of Moonlight Beach. He fractured both of his legs and received aide from the paramedics at the location. He was then airlifted to Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla for further treatment and examination, reported Encinitas Fire Department Battalion Chief Mike Gibbs.

Encinitas lifeguard Capt. Larry Giles informed that the man, who was thought to be around the age of 40, was discovered by a person walking along the beach who had no relation with the victim. The passer-by contacted the police, but was quite off in his estimation of the location. As a result, it took officials longer to find the scene. 

The caller signaled and called out to lifeguards as they were passing by and searching for the injured man.

When officials reached the victim he was conscious, but was believed to have internal injuries as well, Giles reported. 

Giles reported that E Street comes to a dead-end and there are warning signs all over that are purposefully for the cliffs. There is also a guardrail that is there to prohibit passing. 

The top two-thirds of the cliffs in that area are pretty steep, he added. Giles reported that the victim most likely rolled down the first sloped portion about 60 to 70 feet before he struck the 30-foot straight down drop. 

About 15 minutes later, Giles stated that authorities received another call regarding a suicide attempt in the same location. Police searched the cliffs and did not find anything and Giles was unsure if the call had to do with the prior incident.

A 61-year-old man from Ramona who passed away in a tragic accident Thursday when his motorcycle veered off Dos Picos Park Road was identified Saturday as Paul Raymond Farris as reported by the Medical Examiner’s Office.

The California Highway Patrol reported that Farris lost control of the motorcycle he was riding when he neared a turn and took it at too high of a speed. He was ejected from the bike and dropped into a line of bushes. 

A couple came across his injured body during their walk. 

In 1995, Farris, who served in the Vietnam war, was sentenced to federal prison when he said that he had built a bomb and implanted it into an electric drill, which was set off and blew off the thumb of a man who he had a fight with. 

He was let go from prison in 2003, the Federal Bureau of Prisons website stated.

The body of a man who was found dead in his car alone on a freeway ramp in El Cajon Saturday morning was recognized to be Justin Pickett, 28, of Lakeside, the Medical Examiner reported Sunday.

An El Cajon police officer approached the car to discover Pickett lying still behind the wheel a little after 2:30 a.m. The officer was initially drawn to the vehicle because it was parked on the shoulder of the ramp that connects westbound Interstate 8 to northbound state Route 67.

He passed away immediately after firefighters freed him from the car.  

The cause of death is to be determined for Pickett. He was a single and unemployed man.