Also serving the communities of De Luz, Rainbow, Camp Pendleton, Pala and Pauma
Also serving the communities of De Luz, Rainbow, Camp Pendleton, Pala and Pauma
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SAN DIEGO - A Marine sitting on death row for killing an officer at Camp Pendleton in 1996 had his sentence reduced to life in prison with the possibility of parole, the Marine Corps announced today. Jessie Quintanilla, now 42, was convicted in the March 5, 1996, murder of Lt. Col. Daniel Kidd and the attempted murder of Lt. Col. Thomas Heffner. Quintanilla, a supply sergeant, shot Kidd at point-blank range and wounded Heffner at the Marine Aviation Logistics Squadron 39 space at Camp Pendleton. Kidd was the squadron's...
CAMP PENDLETON - A 22-year-old Marine corporal stationed at Camp Pendleton was behind bars today on suspicion of driving drunk and causing a three-vehicle crash in South Orange County that injured four people. The collision was reported at 10:43 p.m. yesterday (Monday, Sept. 20) at Avery and Marguerite parkways in Mission Viejo. A Volkswagen Jetta coming off the northbound San Diego (5) Freeway apparently went through a red light at Avery and struck a Honda Element, which then struck a Chevrolet Cobalt, Orange County...
Good police work by Sheriff's deputies with the added bonus of law enforcement canines resulted in the arrest of three Fallbrook men yesterday. Sheriff's Sgt. Darryl Kimball reported that while Deputy Frank Leyva was on routine patrol yesterday at approximately 12:14 p.m. in downtown Fallbrook, he observed a teal-colored Ford Escort being driven by a female subject known to him. Leyva had information that a wanted parolee had recently been in the woman's vehicle. After executing a u-turn in his patrol car, Leyva caught up to...
