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San Diego Sheriff's crime report for 9/9/2011 - 9/15/2011: 33 local crimes found...
http://www.crimemapping.com/map/region/northcountysandiego Follow the link above to view the entire mapping tool...
State Rep.Martin Garrick, R-Solana Beach, pleads no contest to drunken driving charges
Assemblyman Martin Garrick, R-Solana Beach, will lose his driver's license for four months and perform 48 hours of community service after pleading no contest today to drunken driving charges. Three California Highway Patrol officers arrested Garrick on June 15 after they saw him speed past a stop sign and red traffic lights near the Capitol. Garrick's plea came more than two weeks before his scheduled Aug. 15 court hearing. "I have accepted responsibility for my actions and apologized to family, friends and constituents," Garrick said in a statement late Friday. "I will now take the necessary steps to resolve this incident and immediately begin the process of complying with the judgment." A blood test revealed Garrick had a blood-alcohol level nearly twice the legal limit of 0.08 percent on the night he was arrested. Officers never booked the former Assembly GOP leader into jail because they said in an arrest report that he was suffering from severe vomiting, diarrhea and stomach pains. Garrick's attorney, Don Heller, said Garrick had contracted a stomach flu earlier in the day. An Assembly sergeant-at-arms drove Garrick home. In addition to the driver's license suspension and community service, Garrick must pay fines and fees totaling $2,416.01 and must log 30 hours at a three-month alcohol treatment program, according to court documents cited in the release. Full CHP report on Assemblyman Garrick, R-Solana Beach June 15 DUI arrest at state Capitol. Report Shows Assemblyman Ignored Officers Before DUI Arrest
SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Assemblyman Martin Garrick ignored CHP officers and sped through two stop lights and a stop sign before his arrest for DUI charged on June 15th, according to a CHP report.
A newly released report by the California Highway Patrol provides details of his arrest. The report states that after Garrick passed two officers on foot who tried to waive him down he, "accelerated at a high rate of speed". Aftere following Garrick into the state Capitol parking garage an officer stood by Garrick's driver side window while the Solana Beach republican, "ignored my presence", the report said. Garrick told officers he drove fast because he was having severe stomach pain and diarrhea. He said he’d just an eaten a spaghetti and meatballs dinner at a friend’s home in Sacramento’s Land Park neighborhood along with three glasses of red wine. The report states the Assemblyman denied feeling intoxicated but proceeded to fail five different field sobriety tests. Blood testing later revealed his blood alcohol level at 0.15, nearly twice the legal limit. After being arrested he was taken to the Sacramento County jail where he, "continued to regurgitate and vomit into a trash can." The report says Garrick agreed to a blood test. He was taken to the CHP's capitol office for a blood draw over an hour after his arrest.
The CHP report says Garrick was released to the custody of Derek Radey of the Assembly Special Services Unit by 11:30 p.m., ninety minutes after his arrest. The arresting officer noted he released Garrick because of his, "condition and the possibility of an extended examination at a local hospital." The report does not say whether Garrick was actually taken to a hospital or driven to his home. BREAKING NEWS 4:30 P.M. - WONDERING ABOUT I-5 TRAFFIC HASSLES IN NORTH COUNTY SAN DIEGO, CALIF. HERE ARE A FEW REASONS WHY.
A series of small fires charred brush along northbound Interstate 5 near Manchester Avenue on Monday afternoon, casting clouds of smoke over the freeway and forcing authorities to close a lane briefly as firefighters doused the blazes. Firefighters responded to reports of three or four small fires burning on a hill near the freeway about 2:30 p.m., a NorthComm dispatcher said.
Fire causes were not immediately known. Also holding up traffic was this accident, according to CHP:
Scenes from a San Diego County Wildland Training Exercise at Lake Hodges, Calif. DAY 2..
A little rain didn't dampen the spirits of hundreds of firefighters from 28 San Diego County fire agencies on Tuesday, May 17, 2011 as they concluded annual wildland training at Lake Hodges, Calif.
And for some bonus coverage...
...Dial it up. Fire training exercise over, the lake re-opens to fishing on Wednesday. PLUS BONUS COVERAGE OF 'THE ACCIDENT' AT THE LAKE...Featuring the Del Dios Bicycle Players.
As fortune - bad - would have it, a bicyclist suffered a fall at the right place with hundreds of EMTs around.
So, as an added busines we bring your photos from 'The Accident' as well.
Last but least, the lake as it stands Monday, May 16, 2011
Enjoy? MORE WILDLAND TRAINING FROM LAKE HODGES, DEL DIOS, CALIF...
Like I was saying, its the annual Wildland Training Day at Lake Hodges and about 100 engine companies along with numerous batallion chiefs and firefighting apparatus, and about a half-dozen fire suppression non-stealth helicopters trained all day Monday at the lake.
They came from every firefighting agency in San Diego County for the hootenanny at the lake.
It was a fun day for all what with seminars, hands-on training and well, sitting around in fire engines all day. Warning: Arsonists Beware, Stay Away from Lake Hodges Monday for the Lake is Fire-Training or Something...
All of San Diego County's fire agencies turned out in force on Monday for the annual meeting of the clans. Well, the annual wildfire exercise. And what place more appropriate than at the Del Dios Fire Station and Lake Hodges where the 2007 Witch Creek Fire was brought to its knees and vanquished.
Agencies, along with all available firefighting helcopters, spent the day doing stuff around the lake. This included wildfire training seminars at the station as well as hands-on fire suppression and safety drills at the lake. Anyone who was stranded around Lake Hodges due to, I dunno, having a crappy Toyota RAV 4 transmission, were just plain out of luck, but we digress...
....Enjoy! San Diego Sheriff's crime report for 5/9/2011 - 5/15/2011: 11 local crimes found...
http://www.crimemapping.com/map/region/northcountysandiego For more information, follow the mapping tool above....
BREAKING NEWS 1 P.M. -- Fire at Cielo Village closes Del Dios Highway at 1 p.m. Friday; Re-opens an hour and a half later...
Crews knocked down a brush fire that broke out near Cielo Village. The fire was reported shortly after 12:45 p.m. in an area near Del Dios Highway and Bing Crosby Boulevard, according to Cal Fire. Small, separate fires also broke out in the area. Authorities said the fires were apparently sparked by a passing vehicle with a malfunctioning exhaust or brake system. Below is the real-time CHP SigAlert report brought to you real-time ONLY at Ah-Ha Rancho Santa Fe News...
San Diego Sheriff's crime report for Rancho Santa Fe, Calif. 4/12/2011 - 4/18/2011: 10 local crimes found.
http://www.crimemapping.com/map/region/northcountysandiego For more information, follow the mapping tool above...
FREE MONEY AT MISSION FEDERAL CREDIT UNION SOLANA BEACH, CALIF.? NOPE but thief got away with $3K...
A man wearing a black bandanna over his face robbed a Mission Federal Credit Union branch around 11 a.m. today, Wednesday in the 900 block of Loma Santa Fe at Solana Beach. The suspect was described as a black man in his mid-30s who was wearing a black baseball cap, a black leather jacket, and a black bandana over his face, San Diego County Sheriff's Lt. Jim Walker said. The man had his hand in his pocket as if he had a gun, but no weapon was seen, Walker said. No vehicle was seen as the man fled on foot with an estimated $3,000. He was last seen on foot, heading toward the Vons market in the Lomas Santa Fe Plaza shopping center, Walker said. Anyone with information is asked to call the Sheriff's Department's at 858-565-5200. Moose No Longer Loose So Get Off Our Cloud and Return Those Damn Bronze and Iron Sculptures...OH THE HUMANITY STOP THESE HORRIBLE THEFT AND RETURN INCIDENTS!!!
Anybody around Rancho Santa Fe missing a giant outdoor bronze horse statue estinated to be worth $4,000? How about somebody at Solana Beach missing a cast-iron statue of undescribed nature estimated at $6,250? You're not exactly in luck, but have no fear, sort of, the San Diego Sheriffs Department is on the case. Those tributes to the bronze and iron ages are being sought as a result of the mother lode of the entire set, a 600-pound bronze moose, suddenly showing up back at its pre-stolen home on the southwestern outskirts of Ramona. A woman who had read a newspaper article about the statue's theft was visiting a popular equestrian area at Dye Road and Southern Oak Road in Ramona lnear sunset ast week and spotted the at-large moose, said Sgt. Christina Bavencoff of the San Diego County Sheriff's Department. The woman said she left the area for abut two hours. when she returned, lo-and-behold a 600-pound bronze moose at the same spot staring at her in a vacant field, according to Bavencoff. "Sometime between 7 and 9 at night, a truck or a van or something probably pulled in to dump it off there," Bavencoff said. "Everybody's pretty much just baffled." The moose vanished from a Ramona home in late February, and more than 17 other statues also had been stolen in recent months across the North County region. Among those were a cast-iron statue worth $6,250 stolen from its Solana Beach owner and a bronze horse statue worth $4,000 stolen from someone in Rancho Santa Fe.
Most of the thefts occurred within the last six months, she said. Bavencoff said she had no idea whether the statues were being sold or scrapped or smuggled across the Mexican border. However, she urged residents to be careful; while many of the statues were stolen from front yards, some were taken from backyards. Such an invasion could lead to violent confrontations between the thieves and surprised residents, she said. Anyone with any information about how the moose traveled to the vacant field ---- or tips about any other statue theft ---- is asked to call the San Diego County Sheriff's Department at 858-565-5200 or Crime Stoppers at 888-580-8477. San Diego Sheriff's crime report for Rancho Santa Fe, Calif. and area 3/30/2011 - 4/5/2011: Seven local crimes found...
http://www.crimemapping.com/map/region/northcountysandiego For more information, follow the mapping tool above....
Selected North County crime notes from police and sheriff’s reports for March: SOLANA BEACH: Tidewater Tavern on North Coast Highway 101 was vandalized $500 in damage between 5:15 and 7:30 a.m. March 29. SOLANA BEACH: A thief stole a $750 cellphone and $100 of electronic equipment from a 27-year-old man between 1 a.m. and 7 a.m. March 21 on Cedros Avenue. SOLANA BEACH: A 31-year-old man was kidnapped and his car was stolen and recovered at 10:55 p.m. March 23 on Lomas Santa Fe Drive. DEL MAR: A juvenile was arrested for vandalizing city property and possessing spray paint and marijuana on Camino Del Mar at 27th street, 4:27 p.m. March 27. DEL MAR: An 18-year-old man was arrested after burglarizing a vehicle on Stratford Court between 2:45 and 2:48 a.m. March 26. Deputies recovered the $165 in electronics he stole from the car. DEL MAR: A 53-year-old man suffered major injuries after fighting another 53-year-old male transient at 12:50 p.m. March 25 on 14th street. Breaking news 3 p.m. - Get ready, get set, STOP on Interstate 5 around Del Mar for a spell longer due to a collision just north of Birmingham Drive...
Yeah, it's Friday, so you know what that means. TRAFFIC HASSLE bleepin' so-and-so commute north. That's a real-time Caltrans photo of what's going on there so either avoid getting on Interstate 5 or else. Considering traffic gets insane after 3 p.m. on Friday, this accident made it worse. The scene was cleared in an hour. Traffic is proceeding at around 15 miles per hour, or slower, from the Highway 56 merge at Carmel Valley north through Lomas Santa Fe. So, that's the April Fools Kommute Killer for now. Expect tough going through early evening.
Sorry to report, but that's the way it goes, April Fools Friday. Don't say you weren't warned.
OH THE HUMANITY!!! Dump truck Ditches Del Dios Highway, Calif. Morning Rush Hour Traffic...
Just before 8 a.m. Wednesday, March 31, and just in time for morning rush hour, a dump truck overturned on Del Dios Highway near Lake Hodges Dam, Ranch Santa Fe firefighters said. Maybe, the dump truck driver was watching the waterfalls continuing at the dam. Maybe, those stinking dump trucks shouldn't be allowed on narrow, two-lane Del Dios Highway where they spew pollution, clog up traffic and, yes, even overturn and truly turn the highway into a nightmare, especially at rush hour. But we digress. Del Dios Highway was CLOSED, closed we tell ya, from 8 to 9 a.m. so a lot of people didn't get to -- Maynard G. Krebs voice, please -- "work". But gee whiz, no injuries, so that's, er, nice, we guess. The dastardly dump truck -- its ownership not revealed -- had been towing a small flatbed trailer with a tractor. That's just the worst kind of traffic possible on the misnamed highway because these stinking trucks and trailer go like 30 miles per hour under the speed limit. They also don't turn off when a long line of vehicles is behind them and technically, the law says it's illegal to drive with five vehicles, or more, in the rear.
ANYWAY, Firefighters found the truck and erstwhile trailer lying on its side on the guard rail along the lane headed from Rancho Santa Fe to Del Dios.
Taxpayer dollars came to work then. Aside from the Rancho Santa Fe Fire engine company and San Diego Medical Services ambulance and crew, San Diego County Department of Public Works employees cleaned up the road while California Highway Patrol officers told people they couldn't drive anywhere. The accident remains under investigation with no charges filed as yet, said Julie Taber, Rancho Santa Fe Fire spokesperson. Oh, the humanity! (By the way, photo below, the waterfall event is coming to a close at Lake Hodges Dam where the one month-long attraction was enjoyed by one and all.)
San Diego Sheriff's crime report for 3/21/2011 - 3/27/2011: 16 local crimes found
http://www.crimemapping.com/map/region/northcountysandiego For more information, follow the mapping tool above...
San Diego Sheriff's crime report for 3/14/2011 - 3/20/2011: 10 local crimes found...
http://www.crimemapping.com/map/region/northcountysandiego For more information, follow the mapping tool above....
Breaking news 4 p.m. -- It's Friday, why is stuff always happening to make traffic worse? Just some kind of bad moon rising, or doublemoon or whatever you calls it. A vehicle fire just past Via de la Valle at Interstate 5 around 3:30 p.m. reduced already slowing Friday p.m. drive-times to a robust 15 to 20 miles per hour from Del Mar Heights Road north to Santa Fe Drive, Encinitas. Don't expect to hit 60 mph until just before Carlsbad where it then slows down again before the Highway 78 interchange.
Other worries earlier this afternoon included a hit-and-run accident at Carmel Valley Road by the freeway exchanges. For CHP details on each hassle, see below:
Breaking News 3 P.M. -- Interstate 5 traffic hassles made some feel like they were in LA, not SD... ...it wasn't LA, but it was closer than usual for a while.
The latter trumped the former on Wednesday, Jan. 26. A two-vehicle collision just north of Santa Fe Drive, Encinitas around 12:15 p.m. put the freeway from Oceanside to Carmel Valley into gridlock mode. Kimi Evans, San Diego 6 weathercaster, posted a Twitter alert: "What is happening on the 5 south at Encinitas?!? I'm not used to seeing traffic like this in SD. Feel like I'm back in LA." Here's what happened and what's happening as of 3 p.m. Wednesday. A vehicle collision sent one of the cars into the side rail, then over on its top, according to California Highway Patrol officers at the scene. No injuries were reported, but half the northbound freeway lanes were closed through 1:30 p.m. with the scene cleared shortly before 2 p.m. Interstate 5 hassles, as usual, spilled down the freeway chain to Highway 56 heading off the I-5 through Carmel Valley. The normally heavily-traveled section of road was even more socked in than usual.
So, it wasn't LA, but it was close for a while. And as always, be careful out there.
It's been a rough two days along heavily-trafficked Del Dios Highway, just above Lake Hodges, with collisions causing several injuries, some critical, and roadside problems, according to Rancho Santa Fe Fire officials. Motorcycle, truck collide A collision between a motorcycle and small truck on Del Dios Highway, near Mt. Israel Road around 8:30 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 19 sent the motorcyclist to Palomar Medical Center at Escondido with minor injuries, according to officials. The motorcyclist, a man in his 40s, was transported to the hospital by emergency medical workers, but the truck driver was uninjured, officials said. Chain-reaction traffic collision This collision happened just two days after emergency personnel from the Rancho Santa Fe Fire Protection district and the Escondido Fire Department responded to a chain-reaction traffic collision on Del Dios Highway near Elm Lane that involved a total of two motorcycles and three cars, said Julie Taber, Rancho Santa Fe Fire public information officer. In that incident, nine people sustained injuries, with two of those people suffering critical injuries. All of them were transported by ambulance to Palomar Medical Center. The cause of both collisions remains under investigation by California Highway Patrol officers. 
As a public service, Ah-Ha Rancho Santa Fe will publish crime reports with mapping applications as provided by CrimeMapping, a San Diego new media crime tracking tool. We are listing the crimes only for now, but will add an interactive tool in the near future. We also will provide summaries of noteworthy crimes as part of our expanded police/fire coverage. The Encinitas Sheriff's Office provides protection for Rancho Santa Fe, Del Mar, Solana Beach, Olibenhain, Cardiff, New Encinitas and unincorporated areas. For more information on local crimes contact the Encinitas Sheriff's Office at 760-966-3587 or heather.clark@sdsheriff. -- Dan Weisman To view the entire map, follow this link: http://www.crimemapping.com/map/region/northcountysandiego
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