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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.

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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 …

The Navy officer who pointed an assault rifle at San Diego police officers during an hour-long standoff at a local apartment building October 14 has pleaded not guilty to his charges, the San Diego Union-Times reported. He is being held on a $100,000 bail.

Petty Officer 2nd Class Esteban Nandin was wandering around the apartment building wearing a tactical vest, gas mask and carrying a military-style rifle when the San Diego Police Department arrived on scene. Nandin was shot by a police officer after he pointed his rifle at him, the U-T reported.

Nandin was taken to a hospital for treatment …

California border patrol agents recently seized illegal drugs and more than $17,000 in cash in three separate incidents recently.

The cash was found in the vehicle of a U.S. citizen who had been driving with a Mexican citizen on I-15 south of Rainbow, California, according to a Border Patrol release. The border patrol K-9 team conducted a search of the 2009 Ford Econoline vehicle, uncovering $17,863 in cash that had been hidden in packages of baby wipes, shop towels and gloves. The two men, ages 35 and 36, were arrested on smuggling charges and taken to the Vista Jail in …

A video camera captured footage of a San Diego police officer pulling a woman's hair outside her burning home October 19, sparking an internal investigation into the incident, the San Diego Union-Times reported.

A reporter for Imperial Beach Patch was at the scene of the fire and was shooting a video, which shows Officer Dan McLaughlin pulling Torazzi Hayslett from firefighters who were trying to keep her away from the fire, the article stated. McLaughlin carried Hayslett away from the home, as she fought with him, grabbed on to a fire truck and slapped him in the face twice. The …

An officer with the San Diego Police Department was arrested October 16 after a domestic dispute at his Spring Valley home, the San Diego Union-Times reported. The incident has sparked an internal department investigation.

The wife of the 36-year-old officer called police before noon and described a domestic violence incident involving her and a child, the article stated. No injuries were reported. Jadarric Davis, the officer, was taking to the San Diego county jail on suspicion of misdemeanor child cruelty and for exhibiting a firearm in a "threatening manner," the jail records state.

Davis was released on $25,000 bail, according to …

A San Diego police officer shot and wounded a man October 14 after the man pointed a military-style assault rifle in his direction, The Associated Press reported.

The San Diego Police Department responded to a call stating that the 24-year-old suspect, Esteban Nandin, was wandering around an apartment building. He was wearing a tactical vest, the article stated, and he engaged in a standoff with the officer that lasted an hour. After he pointed the gun at the officer, he was struck in the chest and arm, according to Lt. Jorge Duran. The name of the police officer who shot …

Numerous county jails around California have reportedly felt a need to expand or hire additional guards and correctional officers as a result of the state realignment program that has transferred many non-violent criminals to the local lockups.

While the Las Colinas Detention Center - a women's jail in San Diego - is expanding its space and the San Diego Sheriff's Department plans to hire thousands of people to fill jobs, not many of the new hires will go to the local jail, the San Diego Union-Tribune reported.

Sheriff Lt. Robert Haley said of the additional positions in the department, "very few, …

Drug and alcohol addiction is a problem for California jail and prison inmates, especially those incarcerated under the state's three strikes law, a California Watch report found.

While these habitual criminals are no more prone to high-risk "criminal thinking" than other inmates, they are far more likely to suffer from addiction, according to the report based on data from the California prisons department and analyzed with the help of the San Francisco  Chronicle.

According to the study, nearly 70 percent of third-strike inmates are addicts and require substance abuse treatment, a California Watch article stated. That's compared to 48 percent of …

One year after the prison realignment plan took effect in California, diverting inmates from state-run facilities to local lockups, counties are reporting jails are not only overpopulated but also more dangerous.

According to a North County Times article, the realignment program has created fuller jails, which some say has contributed to the higher rate of crime now seen at the jails.

An August report by the San Diego Association of Governments stated crime rates rose during the first half of 2012, marking the first increase in years, according to the North County Times.

San Diego County District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis said she …