OCEANSIDE (KUSI) – A 20-year-old man suspected of stabbing his 20-year- old wife was arrested Tuesday morning following a seven-hour standoff at an Oceanside apartment, police said.
The man was spotted at about 5:30 p.m. Monday dragging a woman outside the Mission Hills Apartments on Rancho Del Oro Drive, north of San Ramon Drive, according to the Oceanside Police Department.
A SWAT team was called to the scene and deployed flash-bang grenades at about 10 p.m., the station reported.
Meanwhile, the woman was taken to a hospital for treatment of stab wounds to her neck and arms, Oceanside police Sgt. Josh Morris said, adding that her injuries were not believed to be life-threatening.
A trio of nurses and San Diego County can’t dodge liability for a man’s overdose death in jail, the Ninth Circuit found, in confirming a new standard of review for medical indifference to inmates.
The James R. Browning U.S. Courthouse in San Francisco, home of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. (Ernest McGray/Associated Press)
SAN DIEGO (CN) San Diego County, which has the highest rate of jail deaths in California, cannot dodge liability for the overdose death of a man left unmonitored for eight hours despite showing signs he was under medical distress, the Ninth Circuit found Wednesday.
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A 31-year-old man was behind bars Thursday on suspicion of using a demand note to rob a La Mesa bank three days after Christmas.
Matthew Clive Handy, of San Diego, was arrested by San Diego Police Department officers on unrelated charges shortly after the robbery, which happened about 1:10 p.m. Dec. 28 at the Bank of the West branch on Center Drive, FBI spokeswoman Davene Butler said.
During the robbery, Handy allegedly gave a teller a threatening note demanding money, then fled on foot with cash the employee handed over, Butler said.
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Teenage suspect in San Diego homicide found, arrested in Murrieta [The San Diego Union-Tribune]
Four days after a man was fatally shot in San Diego, authorities found and arrested the 18-year-old suspect in Murrieta, police said Thursday.
San Diego police had been looking for Joseph Mehlenbacher, wanted as the suspected gunman in the death of 28-year-old San Diego resident Kenneth Confer earlier this week.
San Diego police homicide Lt. Andra Brown said Mehlenbacher was found in the Southwest Riverside County city and arrested without incident Wednesday. She did not say what led authorities to find Mehlenbacher, but thanked Murrieta Police Department for their help in apprehending him.
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The mother of a mentally ill man who was fatally shot after he slipped out of custody and ran from sheriff’s deputies outside the downtown San Diego jail filed a federal lawsuit Monday, alleging excessive force and wrongful death.
Nicholas Bils, 36, was shot after he leapt from a park ranger’s car and sprinted up a sidewalk in the early evening of May 1.
His mother, Kathleen Bils, is suing several people and entities, including the County of San Diego, Sheriff Bill Gore and Aaron Russell, the deputy accused of firing the fatal shot.
Nicholas Bils, 36
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Russell, 24, has been charged in San Diego Superior Court with second-degree murder. His is the first case brought since the state law changed in January to raise the standard for when officers can use deadly force. It is permissible only when “necessary,” when a life is in imminent danger and nonlethal methods are not available, the law states. Previously, deadly force had been allowable when