Tag: crime
Detective takes the stand
A National City Police detective testified Monday he dodged a murder suspect wildly swinging a boxcutter towards him. When the suspect realized he would...
Attorney says gang membership does not make one a killer
An Eastlake man went on trial Monday in a double murder and his attorney told a jury he was not involved in either gang-related...
Man guilty of fatal shooting
A jury convicted a man May 28 of second-degree murder in the shooting death of a National City man who was running away after...
Cell phone store robber may make calls from prison
A robber who held up a South Bay cell phone store and nine others was sentenced Tuesday to 11 years and eight months in...
Prelim set for suspect in 2005 homicide
The preliminary hearing for a man arrested in 2017 for a 2005 murder in National City has been moved to March 7 in Chula...
Judge sends ‘butcher’ away for life
“You butchered her. You carved ‘bitch’ on her back. It showed you knew exactly what you were doing.”
That’s what San Diego Superior Court Judge...
Man admits he set home ablaze
A Chula Vista man pleaded guilty Tuesday to arson of his girlfriend’s home and domestic violence which could send him to prison for 15...
Driver will go to trial for death of flat tire changer
A judge Wednesday ordered a hit and run driver to stand trial in the Dec. 15, 2015 death of Raymart Martos, 21, who was...
Driver punished
A South Bay man who struck and killed an elderly woman in National City was sentenced Friday to two years in state prison.
Alejandro Hernandez...
Child porn on teacher’s computer
A former middle school teacher at Paradise Hills pleaded guilty May 16 receiving and possessing child pornography images on his computer.
Timothy James Hensley, 39,...
