Police Beat

Ashleigh Lynn Chavez, 37, pleaded guilty in federal court for repeatedly foraging a doctor’s note falsely indicating a cancer diagnosis to avoid a prison sentence for a fraud conviction. 

A federal court sentenced Michael Jonathan Mefford, 24, of Chula Vista, to 20 years in prison for selling fentanyl-laced pills that killed a 20-year-old man in 2018.

The shooting comes nearly a year after another partner from Fugitive Warrants was shot responding to a call in Chula Vista.

The Chula Vista Police Department responded to gunshots that left two men injured late Friday night.

The checkpoint was conducted between 6 p.m. and midnight Friday in the 300 block of East H Street, the Chula Vista Police Department announced. 

Two men face convictions for the fatal stabbing of 21-year-old Camp Pendleton Marine during a Gaslamp Quarter brawl nearly five years ago that left another Marine wounded.

A man was arrested at the San Ysidro border crossing on Sunday in connection with a hit-and-run two years ago that killed a 21-year-old woman.

A La Mesa man accused of fatally shooting a 27-year-old mother of three as she drove along state Route 94 pleaded not guilty in court on Wednesday.

According to police, the 33-year old man was traveling on a BMW motorcycle when the collision happened at the intersection of Dennery Road and Island Breeze Lane.