Firefighters at Miramar Marine Air Corps Station are carrying out a controlled burn on the base from 6 to 9 p.m. today. The controlled burn is a routine part of monthly training for the firefighters and air crews. Smoke and flames can be seen from the road.
Sheriff’s deputies took another teen into custody who is suspected to be a part of a theft and assault of a 78-year-old woman heading to church last Sunday. The 15-year-old teen will not have his name be released since he is underage, but he is reported to be from Lemon Grove.
In addition, a 16-year-old gang member was taken into custody in regards to the incident earlier this week. The 16-year-old revealed that he was guilty of shoving Maria Socorro Garcia as she was walking towards a bus stop. Garcia was attacked by three teens which resulted in a cut up knee and a swollen bruise on her upper right thigh.
Garcia added that the teens yanked her gold chain from her neck and knocked her to the ground.
Sheriff’s Detective Joe Sherman reported that the 15-year-old suspect resisted arrest and was being held for assaulting a police officer in addition to breaking parole. He is a suspect in other various thefts, Sherman stated.
San Diego police are currently looking into a case in which a murdered woman’s body was discovered around 11:45 a.m. Friday in a room at the Ramada Inn located on Sixth Avenue near F Street.
A hotel worker discovered the body and other employees contacted police. Homicide investigators were contacted as well because the body seemed to be a result of a homicide. An autopsy is set to take place to find out the source of the death.
According to Navy officials, women will not officials working on San Diego-based submarines any time in the near future.
The six subs based in the San Diego Bay at Naval Base Point Loma are the Navy’s smaller, rapid-attack Los Angeles-class vessels, with limited room.
The Navy reports that there is enough room for women to have separate living areas and bathrooms on the bigger sized subs, which are the ballistic missile and guided missile variants based in Washington state and Georgia.
Secretary of Defense, Rober Gates, informed lawmakers in February that the Navy would be removing the law not allowing women to serve on subs unless Congress opposed it. Navy spokesman Lt. Justin Cole informed the Associated Press Thursday morning that Congress had until midnight, last night, to act in opposition.
Authorities have found a man’s body in the water off Shelter Island Thursday morning and are trying to ID the man.
A boater saw the body, which seems to be a man around 60-years-old, a little before 7 a.m. by the furthermost part of the island, Harbor Police reported.
There was no clear evidence of trauma, police stated. The Medical Examiner’s Office will find out what the source of the death is.
Two suspects in a marijuana robbery and shooting have been taken into custody in Colorado, the Sheriff’s Department reported Thursday.
The victim met up with one of the men at a marijuana dispensary in San Diego on April 20 and asked him if he wanted to smoke pot with him at his house located on Buena Vista Drive the following day, stated Vista sheriff’s Sgt. Art Wager.
The victim walked to his room to get the drugs and the man shot him with a gun, but did not hit him. Another thief then burst into the home and ordered to be given money. The two robbers took the money, pot, a piece and a cell phone before they took off in a dark sedan.
A description of the thieves allowed police to find the thieves. Sheriff’s investigators were told that the two were taken into custody in Grand Junction, Colo., on charges of transporting marijuana. Police found a gun thought to be used in the Vista shooting, along with some more evidence from the robbers car, Wager stated.
Andre Free and Phillip Miller, both 25 and from Kansas, are being held in prison in Colorado. The Sheriff’s Department is suggesting that the two should be charged with attempted murder and robbery in the incident.
A husband-and-wife thought to be the pair responsible for two fast-food restaurant robberies have been taken into custody, Carlsbad police reported Thursday.
Officials fulfilled the arrest warrant for Edward Olivieri, 38, on Thursday when he was arrested at his home in San Marcos. He attempted to escape officers by hiding out in a room, police reported.
Olivieri is charged for stealing from a Subway on El Camino Real on March 8 and the Pita Pit located on Carlsbad Village Drive on April 20, stated Carlsbad police Sgt. Mickey Williams. He is being held in jail with a bail set at $250,000.
Both robberies occurred at night in which a robber armed with a gun ordered employees to give him money and told them to drop to the ground.
His wife, Anna Olivieri, 39, has been held in jail as of her arrest for robbing the Pita Pit, in which she played the role of the getaway driver. With the help of a witness, police were able to spot the car on the Interstate 5 at La Costa Avenue and pull her over, Williams stated.
Police discovered Anna Olivieri in the driver’s seat. A man took off running from the vehicle and got away.
The Coast Guard is looking for a potential lost person in the water after an empty kayak was discovered upside down in Mission Bay Thursday morning.
A person walking by the area discovered the kayak around 11 a.m. and contacted lifeguards. A Coast Guard helicopter and boats searched the area for the kayaker. The kayak is described as a 12-foot red Malabu, single-person vessel that contained fishing gear.
Authorities are urging boaters to inform friends or family when and where you will be on the water and when you are planning to come back. Any recreation equipment should also have contact information on it.
Anyone with information is asked to contact the Coast Guard at (691) 278-7031.
A teenage girl was stabbed six times Thursday night in Valencia Park by another teenage girl who fled and then came back with a car full of people threatening to hurt her again, San Diego police reported.
The victim, said to be around 17 or 18 years old, received medical aide at a hospital for stab injuries to the face, back, arm and shoulder. She was stabbed with an unidentified sharp weapon, police stated.
The attack took place on Imperial Avenue by Santa Margarita Street.
The attacker was said to be a 16- to 19-year-old heavyset black female with a ponytail who was dressed in basketball shorts.
An investigation started Friday in order to find out what started a fire in a two-story house in south Chula Vista, a fire department dispatcher reported.
The fire took place at 1679 Pelican Point Court was called in around 10:30 p.m. on Thursday, a fire-rescue dispatcher of San Diego reported. The firefighters had the fire contained by 10:50 p.m., he stated.
