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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, …

The trial for a man charged with conducting numerous armed robberies in San Diego County will begin December 12, CNS News reported. Elvin Vincent Foster, also known as the "Be Cool Bandit," faces 10 robbery charges and a maximum sentence of 35 years and eight months in prison.

A judge recently found there was enough evidence to warrant a trial, CNS reported. Deputy District Attorney James Koerber alleged that Foster robbed convenience stores and gas stations in the San Diego area with what appeared to be a semi-automatic weapon. Foster was given his nickname after a police detective testified at …

The morning of October 27, local authorities found a suspicious package outside the San Diego Central Jail in downtown San Diego.

A deputy of the San Diego Sheriff's Department found the package leaning on the entrance gate of the jail, located at 1173 Front Street, the article stated. The package was reported as a "suspicious device" at 9:54 a.m., according to a San Diego dispatcher cited by CNS News. The package prompted the bomb squad to investigate, and a fire engine and medic were also called to the scene.

However, it was discovered the package was a backpack filled with paper, …

The daughter of a wanted Mexican drug lord pleaded not guilty to an immigration charge after being arrested in early October and taken to a San Diego jail.

Alejandrina Gisselle Guzman Salazar, who U.S. officials say is the daughter of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, head of Mexico's Sinaloa cartel, was charged with document fraud, making false statements to federal authorities and for identity theft. She was caught allegedly trying to enter the country at San Diego's San Ysidro port of entry, The Associated Press reported. She handed over a Mexican passport and U.S. visa that belonged to someone else.

At a …

A San Diego man appeared in federal court October 25 for an arraignment on child pornography charges, but is also being tied to a bomb plot in New York City. Howard Willie Carter II previously pleaded not guilty to the three pornography charges, NY1 News reported.

Federal authorities believe Carter - who is being held in a San Diego jail - aided in the plot to bomb the Federal Reserve building in Lower Manhattan, the news source said, after they discovered he had been communicating with Quazi Nafis, who has been charged in the bomb plot.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation …