Firefighters extinguished a garage fire in a matter of minutes in Mount Hope early Wednesday. The blaze occurred at a home located on J Street off 35th Street and was called in at 5:55 a.m. The fire was put out within ten minutes, a dispatcher with the San Diego Fire-Rescue Department reported.

No one was hurt in the incident. The source of the fire is yet to be determined.

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A man accused of shooting his cousin to death about four years ago while the two were on an eastern San Diego street received 21 years in jail on Wednesday. 

Byron Lee Haynes, 31, entered a guilty plea in July admitting to charges of voluntary manslaughter and also charges for use of a firearm during the murder of Michael Haywood, 27. The body was found by people on the road traveling on Jeff Street, authorities reported.

San Diego Superior Court Judge David M. Gill decided on Wednesday that Haynes should serve in jail in accordance to the plea agreement presented. 

According to witnesses, Haynes’ was responsible for the death of Haywood. Haynes had already been in County Jail serving other charges not having to do with the shooting of his cousin. 

Deputy District Attorney Cari Phillips informed during an interview Wednesday that Haywood, Haynes and another man were on their way to rob a place during the time that the shooting occurred. The robbery was never carried out. 

Haywood was fired on twice and passed away in the street.

A 14-year-old and 15-year-old girl riding on a personal watercraft were hurt in an accident when they were hit by another watercraft on Mission Bay, reported a lifeguard spokesman.

The crash was called in a little before 6 p.m. and was said to have taken place in a open portion of the ocean between Ski Beach and De Anza Cove, said Lt. Andy Lerum. The girls were bruised as a result of the crash. 

This particular accident was one of ten total in which lifeguards had to intervene and rescue victims in the open waters. It was reported that about 263,000 people gathered at San Diego beaches and lifeguards had to make 35 water rescues and 92 medical aids, Lerum stated.

An investigator, who is a part of the San Diego County Public Defender’s Office, entered a not guilty plea on Monday to accusations stating she messed with an important witness throughout her son’s case last year involving domestic violence charges. 

Karen Cabrera was taken into custody on April 3 under suspicions of planning to deflect the prosecution of her son cause and make sure the case failed to charge him for domestic violence.  Prosecutors claim she  hid the key witness, her son’s girlfriend whom he was accused of attacking, in Mexico in order to keep her from testifying during the trial. 

Cabrera, was formerly the supervising investigator who worked on a team that dealt with the death penalty and other high profile cases, and has now been released from jail after posting $30,000 bail.  A preliminary hearing regarding the case is to take place on June 29.

A tragic accident occurred Tueday night in La Mesa that ended the life of  58-year-old Dominic John Diodati.

Diodati was killed when he was hit by a car after he had fallen off is Harley-Davidson and was trying to pick the bike up  in the northbound lane of 70th Street at Neri Drive at about 11:40 p.m.,  La Mesa police Lt. Dave Bond reported. 

Diodati was his by a 17-year-old boy driving a 1996 BMW, who later informed police that he could not see Diodati on the road. He added that it was raining and Diodati did not have his lights on making it difficult for the teen to see him standing with his motorcycle in the middle of the street at night. According to Bond the teen did not receive a citation. 

Jimmy Servin, 56, a San Diego resident commented on Diodati saying that the two had been friends for 36 years and he was also the godfather of his two daughters.

“Anything you needed, you could call him and he would come,” Servin stated. 

According to Servin, Diodati was a former soldier in the Marine Corps during the Vietnam War and was part of the Oceanside-based motorcycle club called “The Gunfighters.”

Border Patrol officials have caught for the the fourth time this month people attempting to smuggle a large amount of cocaine across the northbound Interstate 15,  Border Patrol spokesman Mark Endicott reported yesterday. 

The most recent interception took place on Thursday around 12:30 p.m. when a Border Patrol agent stopped a  Volkswagen Jetta near the patrol checkpoint, a little north of Temecula. 

An officer was questioning the driver and could smell a strong scent of air freshener that he assumed was used to cover up the smell of the drugs, which is very common among drug smugglers in order to deceive, said Endicott. The official requested for a canine for investigation. 

The dog successfully smelled out the drugs and led police to find the stash hidden within the Jetta. They came upon nine packages of cocaine hidden in the back seat of the vehicle and another 17 packages stored in the back bumper, amounting to a total of 69 pounds, reports Endicott.

Both the cocaine and the unidentified Mexican driver were dealt with by the Drug Enforcement Administration, the spokesman stated. 

Over all four incidents, the Border Patrol has accumulated over 275 pounds of cocaine in a matter of 17 days, compared to the 309 pounds the agency seized in three consecutive months prior as a whole, stated Edicott.

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