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Thanks to a new traffic safety grant, the San Diego County Sheriff's Department and Police Department will hopefully be able to help prevent deaths and injuries caused by DUI-related vehicle accidents. The $372,000 anti-DUI grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety in San Diego will be used to enhance law enforcement measures that keep drunk drivers off the road, Scoop San Diego reported.

“The San Diego Police is committed to keeping our roadways safe," said Assistant Police Chief Lawrence McKinney, in the article. "With this grant, we look forward to reaching more drivers to spread the message not to …

Nearly 500 offenders in California have remained out of prison or county jails, despite being rearrested during the last year since the state's realignment program took effect, the San Diego Union-Tribune reported. The news source said the failure to lock up a total of 481 convicts who have been charged with sexual offenses has raised questions about the program, which aims to keep prison population down by transferring non-violent offenders to county facilities.

The California prison program requires parolees who violate terms of their release to serve time at county jails or be managed under probation by those county's correctional …

An 18-year-old woman was arrested by the San Diego Police Department on October 31 after taking part in what news sources are calling a "crime spree" that included carjacking.

The North County Times said Cindy Altamirano Garcia had been in a relationship with Philip Martin Hernandez, who allegedly shot a man as well as an off-duty San Diego police officer at an ATM, set three vehicles on fire and robbed pedestrians, all within a 17-hour span during a day he was supposed to have appeared in court for an arraignment. Garcia was arrested for involvement in the crimes. She is …

Officers with the San Diego Police Department arrested two people October 28 in separate stabbing incidents. The first arrest was of a 36-year-old man suspected of stabbing a cab driver in the shoulder with a kitchen knife,  ABC affiliate KGTV reported. The other suspect booked at a San Diego jail  was a 26-year-old woman arrested for allegedly stabbing a 52-year-old man  during an argument about drugs.

The cab driver told authorities the male suspect followed him into an African restaurant late on the evening of October 28 after the suspect asked him for a cigarette. After the cab driver said …

A man was taken to a San Diego jail October 28 after he allegedly beat his girlfriend and crashed a car into a police patrol vehicle and then fled the scene, the San Diego Union Tribune reported.

Tommy Madriaga had left a party with his girlfriend at the Embassy Suites on Harbor Drive around 12:15a.m. The 35-year-old was fighting with his girlfriend and reportedly slammed her head into the dashboard of her car as they drove away, the article stated.

Citing a police officer's report, the UT said that after being beaten and choked by Madriaga, the girlfriend ran from the …

During a recent drug and compliance sweep in northern San Diego County, law enforcement officials arrested at least 43 people who  allegedly violated terms of their probation, San Diego 6 News reported.

"Operation Tip the Scale" was carried out by nearly 250 police officers, sheriff deputies and treatment professionals on October 24. They checked on 160 people who were on probation or parole in the Vista and Oceanside areas of the county, the majority of  whom had been charged with drug-related offenses.

This was not the first such operation to occur in the county, but it was the largest since 2009, …