A 64-year-old man is accused of accepting bribes for years, according to the FBI.

Natividad Lara Cervantes served as a U.S. Department of Defense employee and a supervisor for Construction and Service Contracts, Inspection Branch at Camp Pendleton. He allegedly used his position to extort bribes from businesses seeking to do business at Camp Pendleton. He supposedly referred to himself as the “Godfather at Camp Pendleton.”

Cervantes was caught using an FBI cooperating witness (CW), according to Daphne Hearn, Special Agent in Charge (SAC), of the FBI San Diego Field Office.

Last week the complaint against Cervantes claimed he received $40,000 in cash in exchange for using his influence for a contract. Specifically, he assisted in obtaining for a contractor a new $4 million flooring contract at Camp Pendleton.

On Thursday, March 28, Cervantes was arrested around 6:40 p.m. around the 7000 block of Miramar Road after allegedly accepting $10,000 cash from the CW. The $10,000 was a partial payment of a $40,000 bribe.

According to the complaint, Cervantes has been receiving bribes and other crimes related to his management of construction contracts at Camp Pendleton since September of 2008. The 64-year-old allegedly received thousands of dollars in cash payments and remodeling work on his condominium.

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Information revealed in a search warrant released Monday sheds light on the investigation into the murders of the Kaufman County district attorney and his wife.

In the document, officials said a family friend initially found the bodies of Mike and Cynthia McLelland at about 6:45 p.m. Saturday. The family friend went to the residence after trying to contact the couple several times without success.

The responding Kaufman County sheriff's deputies found cartridge casings inside the house near both victims. Deputies also reported seeing multiple gunshot wounds to both the district attorney and his wife.

According to the search warrant, the last time anyone spoke to either Mike or Cynthia McLelland was Friday evening, when family members talked to the district attorney by telephone.

The documents also reveal that investigators are looking at phone records for two mobile numbers between Jan. 1 and Sunday.

Authorities have revealed no further information with regard to the investigation.

Investigators also have not said if they have found any connection to the January slaying of Kaufman County Assistant District Attorney Mark Hasse -- though County Judge Bruce Wood said Monday morning that "there has to be some connection."

Authorities questioned on Monday questioned a man who was convicted of theft and could have been upset about this case but he was released. Investigators did not call him a suspect or even a person of interest in the case.

Investigators: No indication Aryan Brotherhood involved

Several people who are familiar with the case downplayed any possible connection to white supremacist prison gang the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas.

Investigators say they have found nothing to indicate the Aryan Brotherhood was involved.

The Aryan Brotherhood has been in the state's prison system since the 1980s, when it began as a white supremacist gang that protected its members and ran illegal activities, including drug distribution, according to Terry Pelz, a former Texas prison warden and expert on the gang.

The group, which has a long history of violence and retribution, is now believed to have more than 4,000 members in and out of prison who deal in a variety of criminal enterprises, including prostitution, robbery and murder.

It has a paramilitary structure with five factions around the state, Pelz said. Each faction has a general, who is part of a steering committee known as the "Wheel," which controls all criminal aspects of the gang, according to court papers.

Four top leaders of the group were indicted in October for crimes ranging from murder to drug trafficking. Two months later, authorities issued the bulletin warning that the gang might try to retaliate against law enforcement for the investigation that also led to the arrest of 30 other members.

At the time, prosecutors called the indictments "a devastating blow to the leadership" of the gang. Pelz said the indictments might have fragmented the gang's leadership.

Hasse's death on Jan. 31 came the same day as the first guilty pleas were entered in the indictment. No arrests have been made in his killing.

McLelland was part of a multi-agency task force that investigated the Aryan Brotherhood with help from the FBI, the Drug Enforcement Administration and police in Houston and Fort Worth.

Killing law enforcement representatives would be uncharacteristic of the group, Pelz said.

"They don't go around killing officials," he said. "They don't draw heat upon themselves."

But Pelz, who worked in the Texas prison system for 21 years, said the gang has a history of threatening officials and of killing its own members or rivals.

Former colleagues remember district attorney

Prior to running for district attorney in Kaufman County, Mike McLelland served as a public defender in Dallas County, working in the mental health division.

"[He] made you enjoy being around him," said Lynn Richardson, chief public defender. "[He was] very passionate about the things he did and also his family."

"He was a straight shooter, always told you what he thought," said Brad Lallor, assistant public defender.

Richardson said she remembers when McLelland told her about wanting to run for DA.

"He was passionate about wanting to do this," she said. "He thought he had a good chance. He liked the people in that area, knew them really well."

Both Richardson and Lallor said they are shaken by the death of McLelland and his wife, saying it is a wake-up call that it could happen to any of them.

Honor Flag to flown at memorial

The U.S. Honor Flag, a flag that flew over the Texas Capitol on Sept. 11, 2001, and has since been present at more than 1,000 funerals, will be flown at a memorial service for the district attorney.

McLelland has the unfortunate honor of being the first man to have touched the flag and have it flown at his memorial. McLelland handled the flag earlier this year when it was flown during a service for his friend and co-worker, Hasse.

A public memorial service for the McLellands will be held at 1 p.m. Thursday at First Baptist Church of Sunnyvale in Mesquite.

The couple will be buried in Mike McLelland's hometown of Wortham. Visitation will be from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday at First Baptist Church in Wortham.

NBC 5's Ben Russell, Scott Gordon and Ray Villeda and The Associated Press' Nomaan Merchant and Juan A. Lozano contributed to this report.

Chula Vista's Jessica Sanchez, the young woman who won over American Idol fans across the U.S. last season, performed at the White House and even earned a hug from President Barack Obama. 

"Just met the first family," Sanchez tweeted adding "Ahh feelin so blessed!"

The Season 11 alum has been performing at a number of events while recording an album.

Oh, and she's also finishing up her senior year - homeschooled so she can continue to pursue her music career.

She's got to me one of the few high school seniors who get to send out a message like this on social media: "Thank you @barackobama & @flotus for inviting me to the @whitehouse today for your #EasterEggRoll, such an honor!!!"

Oceanside High School was on lockdown Monday morning, according to school officials.

The high school at 1 Pirate Cove Way went on lockdown for 30 minutes around 11 a.m. The lockdown only lasted for 30 minutes.

Police said there were reports of shots fired nearby at the 400-block of Grant Street. Officials later determined the incident involved an altercation between two groups, and it is unclear if a gun was involved.

A man on the sidewalk allegedly picked up an object and threw it at a car with three people inside, according to Oceanside public information officer Steve Lombard. The object then shattered the car window.

Officials said the men inside the car believed it was a gunshot, so they allegedly sped off and crashed their car, nearly hitting a pedestrian. The men then fled on foot.

Lombard said it is unclear if there were any shots fired, or if witnesses mistook the rock hitting the car for a gunshot.

Police were concerned the men inside the car might go toward the school, which is why it was placed on lockdown. Officials said the car was stolen and they are investigating the incident.

The San Diego Chargers start their "voluntary" off-season conditioning program Monday.

This year, the Bolts are on the same level as the Los Angeles Dodgers, New York Yankees, and just a few other professional sports teams.

No, not in championship banners but in the new way they’re selling season tickets.

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For years, if you wanted to attend a Chargers game at Qualcomm Stadium, you'd go to the ticket office and look at a hard copy, flat map of the Q to pick out a seat

So the Chargers made a move to make their ticket operation high-tech.

"We're probably leading the pack when it comes to technology," said Director of Ticket Sales Todd Poulsen.

Chargers.com recently launched "Virtual Venue" - an online ticket platform that allows the user to see views from various seats inside the stadium.

"You can pick and choose seats and you determine what's best available not the system," Poulsen said.

It's a 360-degree, 3D-platform that takes the buyer inside the Q so he or she can check out the sight lines.

If someone wants to compare the view from one seat to another seat no problem. The virtual venue can get as specific as needed.

Of course when it comes to picking seats, beauty is in the eye of the seat holder.

"What’s a great seat to one person is not to another," Poulsen said.

The platform also allows users to see what Charger players see with a 3D view from the field into the stands.

The virtual venue is currently only for season ticket holders, but a similar program will soon be available for per game general admission tickets.

A person died after a car struck a minivan in Valley Center on Monday morning, according to California Highway Patrol.

The incident happened just before noon at Valley Center Road and Cole Grade Road. Officials shut down the road while they cleared the scene.

A Toyota Camry hit a Chrysler minivan head-on when the driver crossed the double yellow lines and struck the minivan, according to Officer Jim Bettencourt. The driver of the Toyota died at the scene.

The victims inside the minivan include a 38-year-old man and his 40-year-old wife and 7-year-old twin boys. Helicopters transported the adults to Palomar Hospital and the children Rady Children's Hospital.

Alcohol or drugs are not suspected in the collision and officials are investigating the incident.

If you think you saw a giant, white Easter bunny on a motorcycle over the weekend, you probably did.

A man dressed up as an Easter bunny was spotted driving down Interstate 8 on Saturday morning when officers pulled him over for not properly wearing a helmet.

The bunny -- driving a red motorcycle with a sidecar -- was pulled over on the westbound Interstate 8 at Jackson Drive. Instead of a helmet as required by law, the man was wearing a bunny costume head for a charity event to which he was traveling.

Since then video and pictures from people passing by the Easter bunny has spread all over the internet.

The man behind the mask, Ed Bell, was found by an NBC 7 news crew at a BMW motorcycle shop.

But Bell would only publicly admit that he may have an alter ego that involves that red bike.

"I was kind of taken aback by the huge response it's gotten,” he said.

Bell said the bunny was simply on the way to a charity event to cheer up a sick friend. He attached a bungee cord to the helmet to it could fit on the costume’s head.

"If we felt it was an unsafe action, we wouldn't have done it in the first place,” he said. “Because the last thing anyone needed was a wounded Easter bunny the day before Easter."

While Bell was riding down I-15, he was stopped by a California Highway Patrol officer.

Fortunately for him, the CHP has some holiday spirit and gave him a written warning.

"So, the Easter bunny pulled over, straightened his ears out so he could hear the officer,” Bell said. "They were all professional, polite, courteous. They got into the mood real quick. Gave him a stern warning.”

Bell said the reason he donned the costume was purely comical.

"There's a lot of bad stuff going on this was something people could point to and get a good laugh,” he said.

As for whether this will become a holiday tradition, he says never lose faith in the Easter Bunny.

“Never say never to the Easter Bunny,” he said. “If the Easter bunny does come back, they'll probably have a better helmet, or one more recognizable."

Jury selection began Tuesday in the trial for a wrongful death lawsuit filed by Michael Jackson's family against the concert promoter behind the pop star's concert tour that claims the company is liable for his June 2009 death.

The civil trial in a downtown Los Angeles courtroom comes more than one year after the King of Pop's personal physician, Dr. Conrad Murray, was convicted of involuntary manslaughter in the case's criminal trial. Jackson's death from acute Propofol -- a surgical anesthetic -- intoxication at his rented home in Holmby Hills occurred hours after a rehearsal for the 50-year-old entertainer's 50-show tour called "This Is It."

Katherine Jackson, the singer's 82-year-old mother, filed the lawsuit in September 2010 on behalf of herself and her son's three children. The lawsuit claims AEG Live was responsible for choosing Dr. Murray to be Jackson's personal physician -- a decision that ultimately led to Jackson's death, according to the lawsuit.

"People are going to feel like this is a re-run because we lived through the Conrad Murray trial," said NBC4 legal analyst Royal Oakes. "The question then was, 'Who killed Michael Jackson.' The jury said it was Dr. Murray.

"Now, it's essentially the same question, but the focus since it's a civil case -- not a criminal case -- is on whether AEG was pushing Dr. Murray to make it unsafe for Michael."

Jackson family members are seeking millions of dollars they say the superstar would have earned.

The trial could require several months of testimony, including statements from Jackson's children about their father's final days. Jackson's two oldest children were present when emergency teams responded to 911 calls June 25, 2009 from the Holmby Hills mansion at which prosecutors said Murray delivered the fatal Propofol dose.

Some of the testimony might involve Jackson's prescription drug use and the child molestation case in which he was acquitted as attorneys for AEG Live attempt to show Jackson created the conditions for his own demise. AEG Live attorneys have maintained the company never hired Murray, but that he had been one of several doctors treating the entertainer long before he agreed to the 50-concert tour.

Murray, serving four years in Los Angeles County men's jail for the November 2011 involuntary manslaughter conviction, provided Jackson with the drug Propofol to help him sleep. Katherine Jackson's attorneys allege that the concert promoter should have considered red flags regarding Murray.

Murray did not testify at the criminal trial. It is unlikely he will testify in the civil matter with an appeal pending for the criminal case conviction.

AEG Live is owned by Denver-based billionaire Philip Anschutz. AEG Inc.'s former president and chief executive officer, and that company -- which has a significant Southern California presence -- were dismissed as defendants. AEG, a subsidiary of the Anschutz Company, owns the NHL's LA Kings, Major League Soccer's LA Galaxy and Staples Center in downtown Los Angeles.

AEG is behind plans to build an NFL stadium in downtown Los Angeles in an effort to attract a professional football franchise.

A family fight ended with one brother dead and another in custody accused in the killing.

Investigators could be seen on the balcony of an upper-level condo unit at the Camelot complex in the 2000-block of Lakeridge Circle.

Mario Figueroa, 23, was discovered in a bedroom with stab wounds Chula Vista police said.

Alberto Gonzalez Figueroa, 35, has been taken into custody and is accused in his brother’s death.

The men’s grandfather who lives in the unit said there was a scuffle and was told to stay out of it, according to police. He went to a neighbor’s home and called 911, police said.

Alberto left the area on a bike with blood on his pants and clothes, according to investigators.

National City police officers spotted the brother at 30th and Prospect and took him into custody. He was charged with murder and will be arraigned on Thursday at South Bay Court.

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Illinois Sen. Mark Kirk became the second Republican senator to endorse same-sex marriage.

It appears his brush with death — when he suffered a debilitating stroke in January 2012 — served as the final push. On Tuesday, Kirk issued this statement from his Senate office:

Hundreds of followers have flocked to a Buddhist temple in Southern California to view what is claimed to be a still-growing, 2-inch-long molar with healing powers that belonged to Buddha himself.

Thousands of years after Buddha’s death, the tooth, already about four times the length of the average human tooth, is continuing to grow because of what are believed to be its special powers, said Thomas Meier, a monk at the Lu Mountain Temple whose monk name is Xian Jie.

The tooth, which Meier says is 2,500 years old, is on display alongside other relics including a hair said to be from the Buddha that reportedly moves on its own and 10,000 color crystals said to have been extracted from the cremated remains of Buddha’s body.  

Meier said an 80-year-old resident at the temple in who has experienced leg pain since she was a child was healed when the tooth and other relics arrived.

The tooth, which went on display on Sunday at the temple in Rosemead near East Los Angeles, is thought to be the only Buddha tooth currently in the United States and one of only a few existing sacred teeth from Buddha himself, according to a press release issued by the temple.

“It’s a matter of faith,” Meier said. “If these things are real, people have responses to them -- like people get healed in its presence."

The tooth was donated to the temple by a Buddhist in Vietnam who has collected thousands of Buddhist relics over the years, and wanted to share the relics with Buddhists in Southern California, Meier said.

The authenticity of the tooth has not been verified by an outside source. The longest human tooth on record was 1.26 inches long, according to The Guinness Book of World Records.

But Sonya Lee, an expert in Buddhist relic worship at USC, said fact-checking in Buddhist worship is not the most important factor in discerning whether a relic is really from the body of the sacred Buddha -- it’s what the believers witness while in its presence.

“It doesn’t matter if it’s genuinely from Buddha’s body,” Lee said. “It’s really the legend that makes it meaningful.”

How authentic the tooth and other relics may be is a common question, Meier said.

“How people react to them -- that’s where real test of it is,” Meier said.

Baby sparrows tried to peck their way into the room where the tooth was stored prior to its unveiling to the public, Meier said, because they "sensed something."

Other supernatural occurrences noted in relation to Buddhist relics include radiant lights or strong odors, Lee said.

“Relics can give off a great fragrance if responding favorably to prayer,” Lee said. “Or it can give off a great stink if it’s not.”

More than 200 people have visited the tooth and other relics over the course of the two days they have been on display, Meier said. Normally the temple sees 10 visitors on any given weekend.

As for the authenticity of the tooth, Lee said: ”What’s sacred is in the eye of the beholder.”

A helicopter unit and ground crews resumed the search Monday for two missing hikers in Cleveland National Forest.

The man and woman -- identified as Nicholas Cendoya, 19, and Kyndall Jack, 18, of Costa Mesa -- were reported missing after calling for help at about 8:30 p.m. Sunday. Their cell phone battery died, and the two friends have not been heard from since the call.

Authorities were unable to obtain an accurate location using GPS from the phone.

The search is focused on the Trabuco Canyon area. Dark and foggy conditions halted Sunday night's search, but skies cleared late Monday morning.

Rescuers used K-9s to follow the scent of one of the hikers more than a mile from where the pair had parked. Authorities said that somewhere near a mine shaft, the trail went cold.

"I'm having a feeling that one of them is injured and they are sticking together and they're just unable to be heard or seen," Orange County Sheriff's Department Lt. Erin Giudice said.

The hikers' vehicle was located at the entrance to Holy Jim Trail. Inside the vehicle were two phone chargers and a parking pass bought specifically for Sunday.

The search was expected to continue into Monday night.
 

Imagine waking up and being homeless.

Yvonne Rogers of Birmingham, England awoke from a 14-month coma to discover she no longer owned her home and her family had sold her belongings.

The Birmingham Mail reported that the wheelchair-bound patient suffered from hydrocephalus, meaning water on the brain. She fell into a coma after complications during surgery.

The Birmingham City Council reclaimed her home, saying that it had been unoccupied for too long. As a result, her family had to sell all her furniture, keeping only small items of memorabilia, because there was no storage space, according to the Birmingham Mail.

“I lost two years of my life in the hospital, and I lost my home too,” Rogers told the paper.

Newly released documents on Newtown shooter Adam Lanza's brief college career add a few small details about his life but do little to answer any questions about what motivated him to kill.

The Western Connecticut State University paperwork, released Tuesday, outline Lanza's attempts, after completing his high school credits early, to continue his education.

In May 2008, just after his 16th birthday, Lanza took an algebra placement exam, saying in his background questionnaire that he did not want to indicate his gender or anything about his background. He scored a 95.9.

That summer, Lanza took two computer science classes, earning an A and an A-minus, the documents show. He followed up in the fall with another computer science class, which he withdrew from, and a philosophy class titled "Introduction to Ethical Theory," in which he earned a C.

Lanza began the spring 2009 semester with classes in German and American history, but apparently dropped his studies soon afterward.

The records end there.

Nearly four years later, on Dec. 14, 2012, Lanza, 20, killed his mother at home in Newtown and drove to Sandy Hook Elementary School, where he gunned down 20 first-graders and six educators before committing suicide.

Investigators searched the Lanza home and found a massive cache of guns, knives, swords and ammunition, according to documents released by authorities last week.

Those documents not only described a household enamored with guns, but also raised questions about what Lanza's 52-year-old mother, Nancy, knew about the danger that her son posed, and whether she was complicit in allowing him to obtain guns.

Among the paperwork taken from the home they shared were photographs of what appeared to be a bloody body, a New York Times article about a 2008 mass shooting at Northern Illinois University, self-help books for understanding the minds of people with Asperger's Syndrome and autism, a paperback entitled "Train Your Brain to Get Happy," a guide to pistol shooting and a holiday card containing a check Nancy Lanza wrote to Adam for the purchase of a firearm.

Authorities released video on Tuesday of the initial inspection of the sinkhole that claimed the life of a man at his home in Seffner, Fla. just over a month ago.

The video shows glimpses of the earth beneath Jeff Bush’s home at 240 Faithway Drive in Seffner, near Tampa.

Bush, 36, died when the ground opened up and swallowed him on the night of Feb. 28. Five others who were in the house that night escaped unharmed.

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Two fragments that could be human remains were found on the first day of sifting debris from construction sites around the World Trade Center site in a renewed effort to find 9/11 victims, officials said Tuesday.

The two pieces were found Monday in the first day of a 10-week sifting operation. The city has collected about 60 dump truck loads of debris from construction areas around the trade center site over the past two and a half years that is now being examined for remains. 

The debris was collected from the World Financial Center, West Street and a lot near Liberty Street since the last sifting operation in mid-2010.

The material amounts to 590 cubic yards -- 38 from the WTC, 13 from the western edge of the southbound lanes of West Street and 539 from the Liberty Street area, where four pieces of possible human remains have already been found.

Any human remains will be analyzed by the medical examiner's office for possible matches to 9/11 victims. Of the 2,750 people killed at the trade center, 1,634 have had remains identified.

Imagine buying your dream home near an open space, a beautiful park or in this case, the Escondido Country Club. Then you get word, the surrounding area is about to change.

Green ribbons can be spotted everywhere in the community surrounding the now closed Escondido Country Club.

After 46 years in business, the golf course on Country Club Lane officially closed Monday.

Now residents are unsure what will happen to the scenic greens and fairways.

“This hit us like a ton of bricks. We moved into a golf course community and less than a year later, we're being told it's going to change,” said resident David Desrochers.

The golf course owners say it would take $2 million in upgrades to make it competitive with surrounding courses.

They say the course is losing up to $35,000 a month.

So now that it's closed, what's next? And how will it impact property values?

The property was purchased out of bankruptcy in 2012 by Los Angeles company Rough, LLC.

The company may use the 110 acres of land for residential development, which has local residents worried they will lose their fairway view.

“Our concern is that any development whatsoever causes noise, dust, traffic, crime, vandalism,” said resident Jerry Swadley.

But as homeowners put up green ribbons and signs like “save the ducks,” the golf course has said residents will have input on what to do with the land.

“Those could include parkland, open space, trails, and we want them to tell us what they want to see there," said Erica Holloway with Escondido Country Club.

Residents are skeptical.

“Open space would be great. That would be ideal if the golf course went away, but that doesn't make anybody money It doesn't make the city money. It doesn't make the developers money. I don't see that happening," Desrochers said.

The president of the local homeowners’ organization says he will soon start to collect signatures in an effort to give this area a green space designation.

"We're looking at ways to make sure they don't completely destroy the landscape behind our homes," Swadley said.

Some of the residents believe the golf course owners didn't give it their best when it came to marketing the course.

The course spokesperson said they have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars in upgrades over the past few years but the golf course just has not been profitable, and so changes have to be made.

Spring is actually a critical time of year at your neighborhood gas station.

With summer vacation around the corner, this is when gas prices traditionally start climbing to a mid-June peak at the pump.

When prices go up, most consumers look for ways to start saving money.

Some cut back on eating out. Others may shorten their vacations. Then there are those who look for different ways to get where they're going to get better mileage.

“I have friends who are trading in their SUV’s for motorcycles,” said Dennis Estoesta. “They’re down-grading to small Fiats. It’s just crazy.”

Estoesta was filling up his tank in Kearny Mesa Monday and said he’s a realist when it comes to rising gas prices.

“It’s going to slowly go up and you just got to take it,” he said. “You just got to pay for it."

Gas prices traditionally start going up in the spring and peak at the beginning of summer.

In fact, over the last 7 of 8 years we saw gas prices peak in mid-June.

Last year was an exception when prices hit an all-time record high in October.

"I think we're at the point now where $4 a gallon seems cheap," said analyst Charles Langley with the Utilities Consumer Action Network (UCAN). "I think by the end of next year, we may not raise an eyebrow at $5 a gallon."

Langley, who works with the oil industry watchdog organization UCAN, has said this could be a very expensive year for drivers.  Watch: 2013 Gas Prices Could Go High

So while we've actually watched prices drop over the last few weeks, we don't want to get too comfortable.

If history repeats itself, we will all be griping about prices by the end of the month.

A man involved in a Julian shooting last week pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to charges of attempted murder, assault with a deadly weapon and being a felon in possession of a firearm.

Jeffery Roberson was accused of shooting a male acquaintance outside a trailer park in Julian last week. Today he was ordered held without bail.

Shortly before 9 a.m. last Thursday a motorist driving through Julian saw the 34-year-old victim lying on a roadside in the area of Banner Road and Apple Lane.

The driver picked up the wounded man and drove him to a nearby fire station, where he was airlifted to Palomar Medical Center in Escondido, according to Sgt. Tom Poulin with the sheriff's department.

The victim is expected to survive.

Based on victim statements, deputies went to a large residential lot in the 35600-block of state Route 78, where they arrested Roberson. Roberson lives in the neighborhood with his girlfriend, 40-year-old Jennifer Minor. Minor was also arrested, but not charged in the case, prosecutors said.

According to Poulin, it is unclear what prompted the gunfire. The victim apparently knew the suspects and had visited them at their trailer in the past.

After the shooting, the wounded man walked more than a mile before collapsing. It looked as though a single round from a small-caliber gun had passed through the victim’s left arm before lodging in his neck, Poulin said. The gun that fired the shot was not recovered immediately.

Roberson will be back in court April 15 for a preliminary hearing at the courthouse in El Cajon.