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The prison realignment program in California has helped state prisons reduce their inmate populations, but have increased the number of inmates packed inside local county facilities. The San Diego County jails have seen average daily inmate populations increase from 4,632 in 2011 to 5,073 in 2012, the San Diego Union Tribune reported. Much of the increase has been a result of realignment, which transfers nonviolent criminals from state facilities to county lockups and diverts others to early release and probation.

San Diego County Sheriff Bill Gore has created a special unit in the last year that identifies county inmates that …

A man caused an officer-involved shooting at a theater in San Diego January 12. The man pulled out a handgun in the parking lot of a San Diego movie theater on January 12 threatening a bystander who tried to interject with him and his girlfriend who were arguing. After assaulting his girlfriend, the man fled into the theater where 'Les Miserables' was playing, the San Diego Union Tribune reported.

Officers of the San Diego Police Department found the man in the theater, which had about 15 other moviegoers seated inside, the article stated. He showed the officers his handgun, at …

A mother will face time at the San Diego jail after she was seen by neighbors dragging her mother into a burning home, which she is believed to have ignited. The San Diego Sheriff's Department said the 41-year old woman has been hospitalized, detained and will be booked into jail once she recovered from her injuries, according to NBC.

The fire started in the single-story home in Lakeside around 4:30 p.m. January 1, the article stated. Dispatchers told fire officials that the fire had been deliberately set by a resident, and when sheriff deputies arrived on scene, the 74-year-old mother …

There was a series of stabbings in San Diego neighborhoods over the holidays. The San Diego police department recently released a statement to the press, detailing an incident that occurred at a family holiday gathering at an apartment in San Diego's North Park neighborhood. The report indicated that during the family gathering, a fight broke out, during which a 48-year-old man and a 59-year-old man were critically injured. Both men needed to be transported to a local trauma center to receive medical care for their wounds.

In connection with this family disturbance, a 44-year-old mother and her 20-year-old son were …

A 23-year-old woman taken into custody and booked at the Las Colinas Jail faces grand theft charges after being accused of taking a 2-year-old French bulldog named Mozzy from a downtown business.

Dyan Chavez was allegedly caught by video surveillance coaxing Mozzy from a local loan office, Rate Rabbit Home Loans, on Front Street on Monday, December 3. San Diego CBS affiliate KFMB reported that Mozzy was spotted by "good Samaritan" Sandro Fernandez.

Fernandez reportedly called the San Diego Police Department when he saw Chavez and an SUV that matched descriptions of the one seen at the loan office.

"I was at the …

The California prison realignment program took effect in October 2011, and shortly after, San Diego County began a program through the Center for Employment Opportunity that is helping former prison and jail inmates find jobs and transition to life post-incarceration. The program marked its one-year anniversary December 5, and celebrated its efforts to keep inmates from crowding the San Diego County Jail, Fox reported.

The article said the county is now responsible for a much larger number of inmates than before prison realignment went into place. San Diego Chief of the Probation Department Mack Jenkins told Fox that about 2,500 …

Nearly 30 people were arrested in San Diego on a recent November evening after the San Diego Sheriff's Department conducted a "zero tolerance drunk in public sweep," The Coast News reported. A total of 28 individuals were arrested in Encinitas and many were taken to a local San Diego County jail.

In all, 21 sheriff deputies and alcohol beverage control (ABC) agents patrolled an area downtown along Highway 101. The sweep resulting in the arrests of those who were drunk in public, were in possession of a stolen vehicle and stolen property, had marijuana, and were caught urinating in public, …

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 …