Police Beat

A Superior Court Judge overturned Gov. Gavin Newsom’s petition to deny Jesus Cecena parol for fatally shooting San Diego Police Officer Archie Buggs over four decades ago during a traffic stop.

A former San Diego man was apprehended and deported from Costa Rica to the United States after 21 years of avoiding conspiracy and tax evasion charges he received in 2000.

Chula Vista Police announced one person was wounded in a possible road rage shooting involving two motorists near the entrance of the Otay Ranch Mall on Wednesday morning.

The motorist accused of attempting to grab a California Highway Patrol (CHP) Officer’s gun after getting into a solo freeway accident in Mission Valley made his initial court appearance Tuesday.

Amalia Samaniego, 44, faces up to 26 years to life in state prison if convicted and faces a knife allegation and a murder charge.

Authorities identified a 30-year-old woman incarcerated at a San Diego Detention Facility as a suspect in the murder of an East County woman whose body was discovered in Bonita.

The San Diego Police Department announced a $5,000 reward today for information leading to an arrest in the three-year-old unresolved fatal shooting of Gregory Izik Ruffin Jr., in front of a Lincoln Park-area apartment complex.

Authorities arrested a transient man suspected of shooting a 57-year-old man in the chest with a ghost gun during an argument late Thursday in Chula Vista.

California Highway Patrol officer Tony Pacheco was shot in his right thigh Wednesday alongside Interstate 8 during a scuffle for control of his own gun with a 25-year-old motorist.

The sheriff's office reported the death of an inmate in custody at the George Bailey County Detention Center in the Otay Mesa area. Twenty-five-year-old Omar Ornelas, a San Marcos resident, was in a cell Wednesday with two other men.