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A San Diego County Sheriff's Department deputy was recently attacked and injured by a jail inmate. The deputy was processing the inmate at the San Diego Central Jail, who had been arrested for a parole violation, when the inmate attacked the deputy and tried to run away, the North County Times reported.

The article stated Jason Cross was "unhappy about returning" to the San Diego jail and became uncooperative. The deputy struggle to gain control of Cross and another deputy tried to step in to force the inmate to the ground. However, during the struggle, the deputy's ankle was dislocated …

Two cab drivers in San Diego were reportedly robbed at gunpoint early in the morning of November 26, the North County Times reported. The two robberies happened within minutes of each other - one at approximately 12:58 a.m. and the second at 1:14 a.m. - and descriptions of the robbers provided by the two cab drivers were similar.

In the first incident, a suspect described as medium-built black man wearing a brown jacket walked up to the cabbie and demanded cash, threatening the driver with a gun, the article stated. The driver in the second robbery said a black man …

The San Diego Police Department arrested a man who allegedly stole a car at gunpoint and then drove the vehicle into a ditch, the San Diego Union-Tribune reported.

A driver and passenger of a Nissan Altima told police that a man walked up around 7:30 p.m. the night of November 25 and told them to get out of the car, according to the article. About a mile away from where the two reported their car stolen in the Encanto neighborhood of San Diego, police located the vehicle and attempted to pull it over. The driver, however, took off in the …

A four-year veteran of the San Diego Police Department shot a man in North Park the night of November 17 after the man had been firing shots in the street, the North County Times reported.

Police said the 55-year-old man identified as Timothy James Farrell had been dressed in camouflage and firing a rifle near University Avenue and Louisiana Street around 7:30 p.m. Police instructed the man to lower the gun, but he refused and instead aimed it at the police officers on the scene. San Diego Police Officer Frank Bigler was the one to fire at Farrell, the news …