CRIME & SAFETY

SAN DIEGO — A shipment of kale with $38 million worth of methamphetamine was seized over the weekend at the Otay Mesa Cargo Facility, authorities said. The drug bust occurred Saturday around 12:08 p.m. when U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers inspected a tractor-trailer driven by a 34-year-old man, CBP said in a news release Wednesday.

A man and woman who were involved in a pair of South Bay altercations last year that left one man stabbed and another shot were sentenced Wednesday.

A string of vandalism crimes over the weekend are being investigated in the South Bay, authorities said.

CHULA VISTA, Calif. — Chula Vista police are looking for the person who vandalized homes, cars and sidewalks with graffiti that included swastikas. CBS 8 went to the neighborhood and obtained a photo of the person who might be responsible for all of the damage. "Really, really random. We've...

Buyer beware! Your next trip to the store could end up making you the victim to two scams hitting San Diego County stores.

CHULA VISTA, Calif. — Chula Vista is mourning the loss of 3-year-old Josiah Toleafoa. According to the Chula Vista Police Department, he was heading into his birthday party at Play City when a 36-year-old person driving a car struck and killed him. “It's heartbreaking, I have a kid myself,...

A man and woman who were involved in a pair of South Bay altercations last year that left one man stabbed and another shot were sentenced Wednesday. Gillio Calais Repetto, 20, and Serenity Nieblas, 21, pleaded guilty to charges of assault with a deadly weapon for the February 2022 stabbing of one driver in the Eastlake area and the May 2022 shooting of another at a Chula Vista intersection.

An underage teenager has been hospitalized after they were stabbed by a fellow teen outside of a Walmart in North San Diego County Wednesday night.

Authorities Tuesday publicly identified a 72-year-old woman who was killed last week when construction materials fell out of an overturning pickup truck on a Clairemont-area freeway bridge.

SAN DIEGO (KUSI) – Officials are investigating the attack of two Marines in San Clemente at the start of Memorial Day weekend. The two Marines say that they were attacked when they approached a disruptive mob who were lighting fireworks at the beach. The two were kicked repeatedly and suffered injury.

The pursuit began after a deputy tried to pull the driver over around 11 a.m. near Grand Avenue and Jamacha Boulevard, sheriff's officials said.

The identity of a body found floating near Shelter Island last week was released, local medical officials said.

The mother of Ashli Babbitt, a Jan. 6 rioter from San Diego who was shot and killed by Capitol Police, was arrested on Tuesday evening following a confrontation with a protester outside the Washington, D.C. prison where many of the rioters are being held. Michelle “Micki” Witthoeft, 58, of Spring...

A motorist who refused to yield for a traffic stop in Spring Valley Wednesday led deputies on a roughly 15-minute road chase that ended with his arrest in Bonita, authorities reported.

A San Diego area plastic surgeon has been charged with second-degree murder in the 2018 death of a patient. Dr. Carlos Chacon of Divino Plastic Surgery in Bonita, Calif. also faces several civil lawsuits from patients accusing him of botched surgeries. Here’s what you need to know about the Divino Plastic Surgery lawsuits.Dr. Chacon pleaded not guilty to criminal charges.In April 2023, Dr. Chacon pleaded not guilty charges stemming from the death of Megan Espinoza, who died days after going into cardiac arrest while undergoing breast augmentation surgery, reports The San Diego Union-Tribune.Although Dr. Chacon was initially charged with involuntary...

A gunshot victim turned up Wednesday in a rural neighborhood in the far northern reaches of San Diego County, authorities reported. A family friend of the wounded man made a 911 call shortly before 11 a.m. to report that the victim had just shown up at a home in the 1900 block of Rainbow Glen Road in Fallbrook, according to the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department.

The woman who was killed by bags of cement that spilled off of an overturned truck on the freeway overpass above her last Friday was identified Tuesday. Karen Lee Cooper, a 72-year-old La Jolla resident, was in the front seat of a Mercedes SUV headed eastbound on State Route 52 on Friday when at least one bag of cement fell through the windshield and killed her, according to the CHP.

SAN DIEGO (KUSI) – The City of San Diego is set to open Safe Use sites to house homeless residents, as part of Mayor Gloria’s plan to ban encampments in certain areas. But East Village resident, Retired Marine Giorgio Kirylo, is warning the public of the dangers these ‘Safe Use’ sites will bring.