It is accounted that this is the city with fastest growing rate. Apart from
its increasing population, the crime rate is also boosting in the city with
leaps and bounds. Researchers have identified it as most fierce city which does
not come under world’s acknowledged war zone. The residents of the city include
gangs that are involved in kidnapping, rape cases and atrocious killing and
stray firing. This condition has paralyzed the day to day activities of the
innocent inhabitants. These reasons have placed the city on the forth position
of my count down.
The Oro Valley Police Department is seeking the public’s help in locating a 15-year-old runaway who was spotted with a man and woman at a southwest-side shopping center over the weekend.
Hannah Elaine Haskins was reported missing Friday morning after her parents woke up and found she was not home, said Lt. Kara Riley, an Oro Valley Police Department spokeswoman.
15 year old met man on internet (police still looking for him)
“We have no idea who this man or woman are; neither do her parents,” said Riley. “Hannah met them in an unknown manner, and we want to find out who they are and what is going on.”
Oro Valley police released surveillance footage of the man the teen was seen with at a business in a shopping center at West Valencia Road and South Cardinal Avenue.
Haskins is described as white, 4 feet, 11 inches tall and weighing about 100 pounds. She has reddish-blond hair, green eyes and braces on her teeth.
The Oro Valley Police Department said a 15-year-old runaway seen with a man and a woman at a southwest-side shopping center over the weekend has been found safe.
A news release Monday morning gave no further details about Hannah Elaine Haskins.
She was reported missing Friday morning after her parents woke up and found she was not home, said Lt. Kara Riley, an Oro Valley Police Department spokeswoman.
"We have no idea who this man or woman are. Neither do her parents," Riley said.
"Hannah met them in an unknown manner, and we want to find out who they are and what is going on," Riley said.
Oro Valley police released surveillance footage of the man the teen was seen with at a business in a shopping center at West Valencia Road and South Cardinal Avenue.
SAN DIEGO — An 18-year-old man was lured to San Diego’s Paradise Hills neighborhood last year on the promise that he would get a good deal on a laptop computer that had been advertised on Craigslist.
Garrett Berki, 18, of Mission Beach. — Handout photo
Garrett Berki of Mission Beach was robbed of the $600 he brought with him, and after chasing a trio of teenage thieves in a car into an unfamiliar neighborhood, he was shot. The bullet pierced an artery, causing Berki to bleed to death.
Rashon Abernathy, 18, Seandell Jones, 19, and Shaquille Jordan, 18, are now on trial facing felony charges including murder, robbery and shooting into an occupied vehicle. If convicted — and the gang and gun-use allegations are found to be true — they each could be sent to prison for more than 50 years to life.
Lawyers on both sides of the case agree that a robbery occurred on May, 11, 2011, followed by the shooting that claimed Berki’s life. But defense attorneys contend that those were two separate events, which conflicts with the prosecution’s apparent theory of the case.
“The robbery was over and therefore there’s no felony murder,” said Wil Rumble, who represents Jones.
During his opening statement Monday, Deputy District Attorney Kristian Trocha told the jury that Abernathy posted an ad for a MacBook Pro at least twice last year.
“This was a setup from the get-go,” Trocha said in court, noting that a Toshiba computer was found in a backpack when the defendants were arrested.
“It was never going to be a sale,” the prosecutor said. “It was always going to be a robbery.”
On May 5, 2011, a potential buyer made arrangements to meet with the seller — who went by the name “Derek” — at a Paradise Hills park. But instead of a legitimate transaction, Abernathy and an accomplice grabbed the money and ran, the prosecutor said.
Tucson-based Raytheon Missile Systems has fired back at a lawsuit filed by a former development partner who alleges Raytheon stole its trade secrets involving a warhead for the Tomahawk cruise missile.
Ordnance Technologies North America Inc. had filed a federal lawsuit against Raytheon in May, seeking a court order halting Raytheon’s use of the bunker-busting warhead technology as well as unspecified monetary damages.
Raytheon has declined to comment publicly on the lawsuit.
But in an answer recently filed in court, Raytheon said that though the companies shared information, no proprietary information from La Jolla, Calif.-based Ordnance has been adapted to the latest version of the Tomahawk.
Raytheon said the design that Ordnance alleges was misappropriated “was independently designed by Raytheon,” and that purchase orders for designs from Ordnance gave Raytheon ownership of any intellectual property developed under the contracts.
“While Raytheon denies that it misappropriated anything from OTNA (Ordnance), the contracts between the parties establish that Raytheon owns that which it contracted to be developed on its behalf and that which it paid for,” Raytheon said in its answer.
Read the rest of this story Sunday in the print edition of the Arizona Daily Star.
One of two teenage boys accused of attacking and raping a pair of young girls in Rancho Peñasquitos last year was convicted Friday of 21 counts of rape, kidnapping and other charges.
Leonel Contreras, 17, now faces multiple life sentences that could total more than 300 years in state prison.
Leonel Contreras, 16, pleaded not guilty in San Diego Superior Court to the sexual assault of two teen girls in a Rancho Penasquitos park on Sept. 3. His co-defendant, William Rodriguez, 16, also entered a not guilty plea. — John R. McCutchen
The verdicts for William Steven Rodriguez, 17, who was charged along with Contreras, will be read Monday morning. Rodriguez’s jury reached them last week after deliberating about a day and a half.
San Diego Superior Court Judge Peter Deddeh ordered the verdicts sealed until the Contreras jury had concluded its deliberations.
It was just before 4 p.m. Friday when the Contreras jury reached its verdicts. That did not allow enough time to summon all of the jurors in Rodriguez’s case to downtown San Diego before the courthouse closed.
The boys were tried as adults in front of separate juries.
Several jurors cried as Deddeh read the lengthy verdicts. Outside of court, the girls’ family members embraced the jurors.
Deputy District Attorney Wendy Patrick said the guilty verdicts on all charges were a victory for the girls and their families.
“Cases like this are emotional for everyone involved,” Patrick said outside court.
Contreras showed no visible emotion as the verdicts were read. He sat stoically, occasionally rocking slightly back and forth in his chair.
Patrick argued in trial that the boys, who had such a close friendship that they referred to one another as cousins, were looking for someone to rob on Sept. 3, 2011, when they came across the girls sitting together in a park off Spindletop Road.
The girls, who 15 and 16 at the time, were sitting and talking under a tree when they were attacked from behind. One of the attackers had a knife.
The girls were forced across a street and up a dirt slope into an alcove surrounded by bushes. They were then subjected to a prolonged sexual assault that traumatized the victims physically and emotionally, the prosecutor said.
Eventually, the parents of one of the victims noticed they were missing from a family party and went looking for them, calling their names as they searched the neighborhood.
The girls were let go.
When police were notified of the crime, a helicopter was dispatched to the area, alerting neighbors to the crime and asking for information leading to the suspects. Witnesses described two young Latino males who had been seen together that night riding the same BMX bike.
Authorities were alerted to Rodriguez through graffiti found near the area where the rapes occurred. They later learned of Contreras.
The boys eventually confessed to the crime. DNA evidence also pointed to Rodriguez.
Attorney Michael Begovich, who represented Contreras, argued that there was no DNA evidence that connected his client to the rapes. He said Contreras was a scared boy who was coerced by investigators into making a false confession. He was 16 at the time of his arrest.
Keoni Rocha, 7, shares a laugh with his mother Leilani Masumoto on Thursday at their home in San Diego, California. The two were reunited after 5 years apart. Keoni was allegedly kidnapped by his father and taken to Mexico — Eduardo Contreras
SAN DIEGO — It had been five years since Leilani Masumoto had seen her son, who was just a toddler when authorities said his father kidnapped him from San Diego and whisked him to Mexico.
Now, the mother-son reunion that often haunted her dreams was about to come true.
As she waited for him at the Mexico City airport, she worried: “Will he even recognize me? Will I remember him?”
The 7-year-old boy she greeted was taller, but unmistakably her son.
“When I saw him I just broke down in tears,” she said Thursday.
The reunion last week was made possible with help from an enterprising young woman in Mexico and the San Diego County District Attorney’s Office Child Abduction Unit.
Keoni Rocha was abducted by his father, Julio Rocha, in 2007 after the boy’s mother requested full custody, according to the District Attorney’s Office.
The break in the case came recently when a student in Mexico was doing online research for a school project and came across a poster from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children with information about the boy and his father.
She recognized the boy as a neighbor who lived across the street, and she contacted authorities.
BISBEE - The Cochise County Sheriff's Department released a 39 page report Friday with details in the Ivie investigation. Border Patrol Agent Nicholas Ivie was killed October 2 in a remote desert area northeast of Naco where he was stationed. The 30-year-old was killed by what has been described as friendly fire.
In the report a deputy recalls specifically asking dispatchers if the shooting was an accidental discharge or if the agents took fire. The report says preliminary indications are that the agents were attacked by unknown assailants.
The area is described by agents as Remax, near a trail called Grayface. One deputy described it as a "large bowl in the mountain." Mexican currency is found in the area, as are shoe prints not consistent with those of responders. A deputy also notes an area with fresh smuggling trash such as food wrappers, water and indentations of marijuana bundles.
Authorities initially believed undocumented aliens may have been involved, the Cochise County Sheriff Department deployed its Narcotics Enforcement Team known as NET but no suspects were ever found.
The report says Agent Nicholas Ivie and two other agents, a male and female, responded to an activated sensor, however each drove to area in their own vehicles.
A deputy sat in the on female agent's interview with investigators. She told them she had been with the agency since November 2010 and had never worked in the area where the shooting occurred. The agent told investigators she never saw Ivie but had radio communication with him. She said she and a male agent approached the area from the south and Ivie approached from the north. She told investigators he signaled them with a flashlight.
Agent Ivie
The agent told investigators she heard yelling, observed muzzle flashes and heard rapid gunfire. She drew her weapon, took cover, but could not recall if she fired her weapon but admits conducting a magazine exchange. The agent described seeing a flash from a gun and seeing a reflection of a handgun. She also told investigators at the time of the shooting she thought she saw three to four people and though she heard whispering but could not say if it was in English or Spanish. After the shots were fired she said she tried to remain calm and hid.
The report says there was a trail of blood. It also mentions the autopsy but much of it is redacted leaving out any details. However, one deputy noted Ivie had blood coming out of his ears, nose and mouth. He wrote there were no other injuries. Another deputy wrote "approximately six spent rifle casings (believed to be of the spent casings were clustered approximately five feet to the east of the under belt." There were other casings but it's unclear in the report where they were located.
According to one deputy, Ivie's magazine was seated and the slide was forward, indicating his weapon was loaded and ready to fire.
The names of the two agents involved in the shooting are left out of the report. The FBI nor the Border Patrol would comment on the report saying the investigation remains ongoing.
