VISTA
A 29-year-old Fallbrook man arrested last week after a body was found buried on a property where he lives pleaded not guilty to a murder charge Wednesday.
Nicholas Andrew Burg is also charged with two auto-theft related counts, according to the criminal complaint filed in Vista Superior Court.
He faces 33 years to life if convicted of all charges, Deputy District Attorney Nikki Estrada said.
No new details of the case were revealed during the arraignment, and the victim’s name has not been released.
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Prosecutors allege in the complaint that the victim was killed July 12 or 13.
Sheriff’s deputies found the body July 14, buried on the property where Burg lives on South Ridge Drive, south of Live Oak Park Road.
VISTA
A 37-year-old woman pleaded not guilty Tuesday to murder in the death of a Solana Beach man who co-founded the education and research nonprofit Butterfly Farms.
Jade Sasha Janks is charged with murder in the death of Thomas Merriman, and an allegation that the killing was premeditated, according to the complaint prosecutors have filed in the case.
Family and friends said Janks was Merriman’s former stepdaughter.
No new information in the case were revealed during her brief arraignment in Vista Superior Court. However, she is due back in court Jan. 27 for a hearing to ask a judge to set bail, and more detail could come to light at that time. Janks has been held without bail since her arrest Jan. 2.