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A San Diego deputy sheriff failed to conduct a mandatory safety check on an inmate who died from a drug overdose last year, an independent investigation has found.
Blake Edward Wilson died Jan. 26, 2020 at the San Diego Central Jail, 10 days after he was booked into custody. According to court records, Wilson struggled with drug addiction and was disbarred from practicing law a little more than a year before his death.
The county’s Citizens’ Law Enforcement Review Board, a volunteer oversight panel with a professional investigative staff, will consider misconduct allegations against the unidentified deputy at its Tuesday evening meeting.
SAN DIEGO (KUSI) – Authorities Tuesday publicly identified a 47-year-old man allegedly killed by a 39-year-old man who was found covered in blood in a Mira Mesa neighborhood.
A 911 caller reported seeing the bloodied man “acting erratically” in front of a residence in the 7800 block of Burlington Way shortly after 7 a.m. Friday, San Diego police Lt. Matt Dobbs said.
Arriving officers detained the 39-year-old man, later identified as Juan Luis Ortega, then checked inside a nearby house, finding the body of 47- year-old Robert Lizotte, who had suffered traumatic injuries to his upper body, Dobbs said.
Investigators determined the two men were friends and Ortega had been staying in Lizotte’s house, the lieutenant said.
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San Diego police officers arrested 41-year-old Ryan Edward Breeland of South Carolina on suspicion of murder, after another man was found dead in Breeland s hotel room. Breeland also was booked on a parole violation. (Renee Schiavone/Patch)
SAN DIEGO, CA A parolee from South Carolina was behind bars today on suspicion of killing a 32-year-old man at a motel in downtown San Diego s Core-Columbia neighborhood.
Shortly before 11:15 a.m. Wednesday, officers responding to a report of a death at a motel on 10th Avenue between Ash and A streets found a 32-year-old man dead in a room with apparent trauma to his upper body, San Diego police Lt. Matt Dobbs said.