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SAN DIEGO - An Escondido man who sold fentanyl-laced pills to a Camp Pendleton Marine, leading to the victim's fatal overdose, was sentenced today to 14 years in federal prison. Kyle Anthony Shephard, 29, pleaded guilty earlier this year to selling four pills containing the powerful synthetic opioid to the unidentified 25- year-old U.S. Marine corporal in 2017. The victim's body was found in his barracks room at Camp Pendleton by fellow Marines who checked on him when he wasn't responding to phone calls or knocks at his...
ESCONDIDO (CNS) - A 64-year-old man was scheduled to make his first court appearance today on suspicion of kidnapping and raping a 19-year-old girl in Escondido over two decades ago. Mark Thompson Hunter was arrested Tuesday in Hemet on suspicion of one count of rape, one count of forcible rape, one count of forcible sodomy and three counts of forcible oral copulation stemming from the February 17, 1999, incident that began around 8:30 p.m., Escondido Lt. Bode Berreth said....
SAN DIEGO - The San Diego County Board of Supervisors today discussed how to move forward on a land use and transportation plan that could impact future building development in unincorporated regions. The county needs to comply with state Senate Bill 743, which changed how jurisdictions analyze transportation impacts from private and public projects under the California Environmental Quality Act. That analysis must now use miles traveled instead of road congestion to evaluate a project's environmental impacts. According to...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - A man who fell from his skateboard and landed in a road at UC San Diego was killed when he was struck by a vehicle, police said today. The incident happened at 11:35 p.m. Friday when the 19-year-old man was skateboarding on Voight Drive, said Officer Tony Martinez of the San Diego Police Department. ``He lost control and fell from his skateboard, landing in the middle of the roadway,'' Martinez said. Some time later, a 20-year-old man was driving westbound in a Nissan Maxima and ran over the skateboarder... Full story