A body was found near Cannon Road and Carlsbad Boulevard Friday night Carlsbad police confirmed.
The body was discovered around 6:30 p.m.
There is no homicide investigation. The medical examiner has taken over the case.
No other information was immediately available.
Check back for updates on this breaking news story.
Although Marines are known as 'the tip of the spear' some say the force is not always supported.
The vast majority of Marine Corps aircraft are unable to fly, raising grave concerns among top military personnel about pilot and aircraft safety and national security.
The reasons most of the fleet isn’t airworthy include the toll of long wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and federal budget cuts, Pentagon officials confirmed Friday.
U.S. Military spending went down about $131 billion between 2010 and 2015 just as planes, like F/A-18 Hornets that fly out of Miramar, are returning from the wear and tear of 15 years of war.
Only about 30% of the Marine Corps F/A-18 Hornet strike fighters are ready to fly today according to statistics provided by the Marine Corps.
Only 42 of 147 heavy-lift CH-53E Super-Stallion helicopters are airworthy as well.
“You know our politicians want war, but they don't want to pay for it. They don't want to support anybody. If it comes out of somebody else's pocket, they would be happy, that's the way that goes. So my son's in the Navy so I understand,” San Diego resident Gary Fosgate said.
Pentagon officials confirmed the aircraft shortage means pilots are spending less time in the air.
F/A-18 Hornets are supposed to only fly 6,000 hours, but now that’s being pushed to 8,000; There’s even talk of extending it to 10,000 hours with Marines getting creative with repairs.
“Well I hope congress gets its act together and finds out a better way of doing its budget. National defense is a number one issue and that’s where they should have their focus,” Del Cerro resident Ron Seden told NBC 7.
The budget cuts have top military leadership concerned about safety.
NBC 7 reached out to members of our local congressional delegation and the Chair of the Armed Services Committee for comment but have not yet heard back.
Several cars collided near a homeless encampment in downtown San Diego overnight leaving shattered glass and pieces of the wreck strewn across the street.
The crash happened just after 1 a.m. at F and 16th streets in the East Village. The San Diego Police Department (SDPD) said those involved suffered minor injuries. The collision was the result of driving under the influence, police said.
Details of what led to the collision were not immediately released. Footage from the scene showed the vehicles were very banged up – one car with its back bumper completely destroyed.
Two Ohio teenagers are in custody after leading police on a car chase in Alabama that ended with officers shooting and injuring one of them, NBC News reported.
Cassidy Francis, 17, and Chase McKinney, 19, of Youngstown, Ohio, have been charged with two counts of attempted murder. Francis had been reported missing from Youngstown on Monday, according to NBC affiliate WFMJ. She will be charged as an adult.
The pair was traveling west of Birmingham when police received a call that the driver was drunk. Authorities tried to pull them over, but the car sped away, driving through roadblocks and ramming into police cruisers twice.
Police fired at the car, hitting McKinney in the shoulder. He was taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
The internet was abuzz with praise for Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Saturday after clips showing him schooling a reporter on quantum computing went viral.
During a press briefing at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Ontario, a reporter opened his question by joking "I was was going to ask you about quantum computing" but then went on to ask the Prime Minister about Canada's fight against ISIS.
To everyone's surprise, Trudeau decided to answer both, starting with his detailed definition of quantum computing.
"Very simply, normal computers work by ...," he began before he was interrupted by the crowd's laughter and applause.
"No, no, don't interrupt me, when you walk out of here you will know more — well no, some of you will know far less — about quantum computing."
Three men wearing hoodies covering their faces and armed with guns stormed a small market in the Fairmont Park area Friday night and made off with cash, police confirmed.
The San Diego Police Department (SDPD) said the armed robbery happened around 9:20 p.m. at Anderson's Market & Deli located at 4131 Home Ave.
Three unknown men – wearing dark clothing and hoodies clinched tight to cover their faces – entered the business and robbed it at gunpoint.
The SDPD said one man was armed with a shotgun, while the other two brandished handguns. The trio took cash and cash drawers from two registers at the market and fled on foot. The suspects were last seen running eastbound on Home Avenue, police said.
No further descriptions of the suspects were immediately released.
Two people were inside the store at the time of the robbery but no one was harmed, police said. The owner was understandably shaken by the scary ordeal.
At this time, the trio remains at large. The investigation is ongoing and anyone with information tied to this case can report those details to Crime Stoppers at (888) 580-8477.
A flurry of aftershocks hit southwestern Japan on Saturday as rescuers scrambled to reach trapped survivors of two big quakes that killed at least 35 people, NBC News reported.
Evacuation orders were issued for areas vulnerable to landslides amid powerful thunderstorms in the area, government spokesman Yoshihide Suga said in an evening press briefing.
Suga said the death toll stood at 26 from Saturday's magnitude-7.3 — upgraded after an initial reading of 7.1 — quake that shook the Kumamoto region on island of Kyushu. The United States Geological Survey, meanwhile, reported it as a magnitude-7.0 earthquake.
On Thursday night, Kyushu was hit by a magnitude-6.5 quake that left nine dead. There were more than 130 aftershocks.
According to the government, about 190 people suffered serious injuries.
A woman struck by a train in Del Mar Friday night was injured but somehow managed to escape death, officials confirmed.
The San Diego County Sheriff’s Department (SDSO) said that just before 8 p.m., a northbound Coaster train traveling at approximately 50 mph hit a woman on the railroad tracks at milepost marker 244.4 on the bluffs in Del Mar near the 100 block of 12th Street.
According to investigators, the train engineer saw the woman walking onto the tracks. The engineer applied the train’s emergency braking system but was unable to stop the train. The Coaster, which was en route to Oceanside, plowed into the pedestrian.
She suffered unspecified injuries but survived, deputies said. Witnesses reported the woman was sitting up and talking after the crash and was dazed but conscious.
She was taken to Scripps La Jolla Hospital. As of 10 a.m. Saturday, her condition is unknown. No one on the train was harmed in the collision.
The North County Transit District (NCTD) said train service in the area was delayed for about an hour due to the collision.
The SDSO’s Transit Enforcement Unit is investigating the incident and officials said it appeared to be an accident and not a case of attempted suicide.
“She was just walking along the railroad tracks,” SDSO Sgt. Jason King explained.
He said the area was very dark, which limited how much witnesses were actually able to see in the moments before the woman was hit.
He said the woman was walking by herself.
King told NBC 7 that, despite several “No Trespassing” signs along the tracks by the bluffs, accidents like this continue to happen because people can’t seem to keep off the tracks.
“At this point, the message we have to get out to people is you have to stay away from the tracks. They’re not the place to be walking along. These trains are moving along – they’re not very loud – when they’re not on that horn, they move fairly quietly,” King told NBC 7.
This is the second such accident on the same stretch of railroad tracks in the past month. In a similar incident in March, a jogger was struck by a train and thrown off the bluffs but also somehow survived.
The SDSO said that from February 2015 to Friday night’s incident, there have been 18 train collisions on the railroad tracks in the SDSO’s jurisdiction.
Anyone with information on this case can call the SDSO’s non-emergency line at (858) 565-5200.
A 16-year-old boy walking in Serra Mesa Friday night was struck and injured by a hit-and-run driver, police confirmed.
The San Diego Police Department (SDPD) said the hit-and-run happened around 10:40 p.m. as the teen walked westbound in the 3400 block of Kearny Villa Road.
The teen was crossing the street midblock when a dark-colored vehicle hit him. The driver fled the scene, leaving the injured teen behind.
Police said the victim suffered non-life threatening injuries, including a broken right leg. A description of the hit-and-run vehicle was not released.
The investigation is ongoing and anyone with information on the incident or the suspect can call Crime Stoppers at (888) 580-8477.
Sport Chalet will be closing all of its stores and has stopped selling online goods, the retailer announced Saturday.
"While our online store is no longer available, all Sport Chalet stores will remain open for several weeks," the sporting goods chain stated on its website.
The retailer, which has more than two dozen stores in Southern California, began the process of closing down its stores on Saturday. A final closing date has not been provided.
Customers will still be able to use their gift cards, store credits and and rewards certificates at Sport Chalet stores through April 29.
Those who are unable to get to a store by then can transfer gift card balances to the retailer's sister stores, Eastern Mountain Sports or Bob's Stores.
The La Canada-based company was also asking anyone who has left sports equipment at a location for repairs, or has rented equipment from them, to return it before April 29.
See a full list of stores here.
Unplanned outages Saturday afternoon left more than 5,000 customers without power across parts of Escondido, Rancho Penasquitos and Rancho Bernardo.
San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) confirmed several outages began around 2:10 p.m. Power was expected to be restored in all impacted areas by 5 p.m.
The power outages impacted parts of east, west and south Escondido, as well as San Pasqual, West Bernardo, Del Dios and Lake Hodges.
The company said crews were assessing the outages and trying to determine the cause.
A San Diego woman who didn’t realize she’d won the SuperLotto Plus until a week after the numbers were announced, claimed her winnings Friday.
Bertilia Devine, who bought her $1 ticket at Nordahl Liquor in San Marcos in December, won $7 million, which she can collect in a lump sum of $4.6 million after taxes or in payments over 30 years.
Devine said she waited three months so she could get her financial affairs in order. She has not decided yet what to do with the money.
This was not the first time the retired accountant has won though.
“I won $50,000 on Fantasy 5 many years ago,” she told the California Lottery.
Nordahl Liquor will receive a $35,000 bonus as well for selling the winning ticket.
SuperLotto Plus is California’s own in-state jackpot game. Players pick five numbers from one to 47 plus a Mega number from one to 27. The drawing takes place at Lottery Headquarters in Sacramento Wednesdays and Saturdays.
Devine's winning numbers were 3, 4, 6, 26, 25 and Mega number 22.
The demand for cage-free eggs is skyrocketing.
Walmart says it's making the switch, joining major players like Costco, McDonalds, Jack in the Box and Trader Joe's that are in transition for cage-free eggs. Walmart says they will be totally cage-free by 2010. That gives egg farmers across the country time to switch their barns to meet the growing demand.
"All these people wouldn't be changing to cage-free eggs if the consumer didn't want them," said Lakeside egg farmer Frank Hilliker. Hilliker Ranch has been around San Diego County since 1942. But until a new California law took effect on January 2015, most farmers were not making the switch. Proposition 2 required farmers to expand their cages and give hens more room, or create cage-free barns.
"Cage-free used to be something special," said Hilliker, "now this type of style cage-free will be your new convention egg." Hilliker has transformed two of his five barns into cage-free. The third generation farmer has 24,000 birds that produce about 18,000 eggs a day.
But will the cage-free egg demand lead to lower prices? Right now a dozen cage-free eggs can cost $2 to $3 more than other eggs. Farmers are not able to raise as many hens under the new rules and egg production is down. But if farmers want to meet the demands of giants like Costco and Walmart, competition could leader to lower prices for the consumer.
"Most people don't want to pay more," said Hilliker, "we've lost a lot of business." But he's finding a growing demand for his cage-free eggs is changing that. The cost to convert his barns is around $200,000 but he hopes the increased demand will make it worth the switch.
When it comes to the prospect of a new stadium downtown, a big gap has opened up between City Hall and Chargers Park.
The two sides moved to close that Friday.
But a galaxy of financial and legal and financial questions could be stumbling blocks to progress.
On Friday, Mayor Kevin Faulconer sent the Chargers a minutely detailed, 15-page menu of “needed information for additional analysis” of the $1.8 billion stadium and convention center proposal that the team is targeting for downtown’s East Village.
It covers the project’s impacts on the city’s general fund, various cost, cash flow, and stadium revenue estimates; design and usage elements, covenants involving the lease, bond repayment terms and “not to relocate” particulars; cost overrun and construction delay allocations, “event data”, tourism marketing revenues, transportation and parking issues, land acquisition, environmental impacts and cleanup; and relocation of the MTS bus yard that occupies about half of the 12-acre site.
Faulconer’s office released statements regarding meetings that the mayor held Friday with Fred Maas -- the Chargers’ point man on the stadium -- and hotel and tourism interests, saying that all agreed to meet again and keep open dialogues that include the parties’ financial teams.
“Mayor Faulconer,” the statement added, “has an obligation to protect San Diego’s fiscal health and provide facts to the public about proposals that have a direct effect on city finances.”
City Councilman Chris Cate, an early and outspoken opponent of the Chargers’ proposal, says he has no problem with extensive due diligence.
"I think when you're looking at a civic project that's going to be costing close to $2 billion,” he told NBC 7 during an appearance on “Politically Speaking”. “You're going to be wanting those details pored over before you start signing petitions and claiming whether you support it or oppose it."
Mayor Faulconer has been quoted as saying he wants to be "the adult in the room" for parlays involving two ballot measures that would pave the way for so-called “Convadium project – a remark that hasn’t gone over well among some stakeholders in the process.
To say the least, the project would remake East Village, the last frontier of downtown Diego.
Meantime, a city attorney's lawsuit could be lurking over one initiative that's close to getting enough signatures to go to the voters in November.
“If the ‘Citizens Plan’ doesn't get on the ballot, then they're going to attack the Chargers plan,” says stadium activist Dan McLellan . “ I frankly support both plans, and I think voters need to know at this point that the Chargers plan hasn't collected the first signature."
Even if both measures qualify for the ballot, "You've got to have everybody on board,” warns Voice of San Diego editor Scott Lewis. “You cannot have city councilmen, over and over in the press, making it look like a terrible idea."
And even if the Hail Mary odds of a measure being approved by the voters pay off, “"We're still going to have to pay the debt service on Qualcomm Stadium -- that's over $50 million that is not addressed,” Cate points out. “What happens if we see a negative impact on TOT revenues? That pays for city services. That pays for repaving streets, repairing sidewalks."
Behind-the-scenes reports indicate that the Bolts are about a week to ten days away from launching their initiative's signature campaign -- complete with new stadium renderings, Charger Girls and balloons.
The team is said to be offering a whopping $15 per signature to armies of petition specialists in ballot measure campaigns.
If its goal of 100-thousand signatures is reached, the Chargers will have invested $1.5 million, a significant early down payment on the $10 million they’ve said they expect to shell out on political efforts from start to finish.
The chairman of the Republican National Committee said he is "much more comfortable" with the GOP nominee going up against Hillary Clinton than Bernie Sanders in the November general presidential election, NBC News reported.
In an interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer Friday, Reince Priebus said the former secretary of state is "in the ditch" and pointed to the ongoing federal probe into Clinton's private email server.
"I'd rather run against Hillary Clinton because she's defined, she's not liked. And you know, in a popular cultural vote in America, that's a really important question, and she doesn't do well on that question. I don't know what's going to happen with the FBI," Priebus said.
Priebus added that he doesn't fear contesting either of the Democratic candidates and said, "After eight years of Obama, I think this is our year."
Grand jury transcripts obtained by NBC 7 Friday reveal new, chilling details of a man accused of attempting to lure and kidnap young girls at Solana Beach-area schools.
Jack Doshay, 23, a member of an affluent San Diego family, was arrested last spring after he allegedly tried to kidnap a 7-year-old girl from Skyline Elementary School.
According to prosecutors, Doshay allegedly wrapped packing tape around the little girl’s head before he tried to carry her off. His DNA was found on that packing tape, prosecutors said.
The girl’s screams and kicks caught the attention of staffers at the school and the girl managed to escape unharmed.
NBC 7 obtained 418 pages of grand jury transcripts detailing the alleged kidnapping, including how the little girl in the March 2015 case said Doshay – whom she referred to as the “bad man” – approached her carrying a sports bag and roll of clear tape used to wrap boxes as she walked to chess club after school.
In the documents, the girl said she saw Doshay on campus and that he talked to her. The girl said she didn’t want to tell anyone what Doshay said to her because it’s scary for her to talk about it. The little girl was very upset when discussing the incident.
The transcripts include details from a Skyline Elementary School teacher who heard the girl’s screams that day at around 3:15 p.m. as she conducted parent-teacher conferences at the school.
The teacher said she heard someone screaming “Tape! Tape!” The teacher went outside and saw a custodian running in the direction of the girl.
The teacher said she ran to the little girl and discovered tape all over her – in her hair, the left side of her cheek and stuck to a pink beanie cap the girl was wearing.
The teacher said she felt frantic – especially after she looked into the child’s eyes.
“I came down to her level and her eyes were – you could see she was terrified,” the teacher said in the transcripts. “I was terrified.”
She said the girl kept repeating, “he tried to take me” and “he tried to tape me.”
The teacher screamed to other faculty and parents at the campus to call 911. Another teacher said she saw the kidnapping suspect still on campus, heading toward the parking lot.
The teacher said she then ran to the parking lot, where she saw the suspect in a car with tinted windows. She looked at that driver, eye-to-eye, and he sped off, almost crashing into another car in the parking lot, the documents said.
The teacher told the grand jury that the whole situation happened so quickly, she wasn't able to clearly identify the driver or take down a license plate number.
The transcripts also include statements from Doshay’s parents – Glenn and Karen Doshay. Glenn is a minority stakeholder of the San Diego Padres.
Glenn told an attorney that Jack Doshay had been accepted into a university 10 days prior to the alleged attempted kidnapping.
After reading a news article about the alleged kidnapping, Glenn suspected his son may have been involved based on the vehicle description, the transcripts said.
According to the documents, Glenn told investigators he had also looked at his son’s computer and found online search history on how to “tape” someone up using duct tape.
There were also searches on the laptop for the terms “child erotica,” “little girls modeling” and “Japanese schoolgirl teens” under Jack Doshay’s log-in.
As Glenn pieced things together, he hired prominent San Diego defense attorney Paul Pfingst to represent his son, the documents stated.
Karen’s statement in the transcripts echoed Glenn’s story about how they believed their son was a suspect in the March 2015 alleged kidnapping.
Doshay is also accused of another similar incident involving an even younger victim: a 5-year-old girl he allegedly tried to kidnap in September 2010 near baseball fields at Solana Santa Fe Elementary School.
In that incident, the girl was allegedly lured behind a shed after school and told she was going to see a bunny. The child was told to get on her hands and knees and, as she searched for the rabbit, the suspect grabbed the girl by her hips. Prosecutors allege Doshay then unzipped the girl’s pants and tried to remove them. The girl screamed and kicked the suspect and escaped.
Doshay faces many charges stemming from these allegations, including lewd acts on a child with and without force, kidnapping, false imprisonment with violence and child abuse. He is being represented by prominent San Diego defense attorney Paul Pfingst.
At legal proceedings last year, Pfingst argued the girl at Skyline Elementary School was not removed from school grounds and was not touched sexually. He also said the victim in the alleged 2010 incident has identified another person as the perpetrator, and that person is not Doshay.
On Friday, Pfingst told NBC 7 he filed a motion to dismiss the 2010 case against Doshay, saying evidence proves his client is innocent in that case.
Pfingst said the motion includes a declaration from the investigating deputy sheriff in the 2010 case saying she found that child’s story to be “unfounded.”
In regards to the laptop search history cited in the transcripts, Pfingst told NBC 7 no child pornography was found on his client’s computer.
Doshay bailed out of jail last year and is currently seeking treatment at a mental health facility. He wears a monitoring ankle bracelet.
In the transcripts, one of Doshay’s roommates at the group therapy facility testified that Doshay had anxiety, paranoia and an addiction to online pornography.
Pfingst told NBC 7 that just because Doshay looked at online pornography, doesn't mean his client is guilty of all the charges he faces.
Doshay is due in court in May, with his felony jury trial slated to begin in July. If convicted in both cases, he faces a maximum of 50 years to life in prison. If convicted in both cases, he faces a maximum of 50 years to life in prison.
There is joy, relief and some anger in the Salinas home of 2-year-old Jacob Vargas, who was reunited with his mother and stepfather late Thursday after being checked at a local hospital.
The boy from Monterey County was abducted Thursday morning, prompting a state-wide Amber Alert.
"Yesterday when we picked him up at Natividad Medical Center, he was really happy," said Jose Edeza, Jacob's stepfather. "Really full of joy to see us."
Jacob was with his father, who shares parental custody, at his Soledad home when police said the dad's car was stolen with the boy in it.
The car was in the driveway running, being warmed up and investigators said they believe whoever stole it did not realize until later Jacob was inside.
More than seven hours later, a passerby who remembered the Amber Alert led police to a shed in rural Gonzales, where Jacob was rescued from the locked stolen car.
"We are keeping an eye on him," Edeza said. "And there is a possibility we might be taking him to therapy just to do some follow up."
Soledad Police Chief Eric Sills said the intense investigation has led to solid progress and new leads. Jacob's family said it wants justice because the so-called inadvertent kidnapping could have turned out much worse.
"Where the car was found too, it was kind of in the middle of nowhere," said Anastacia Araujo, Jacob's mother. "And he was still buckled in his seat belt. I'm just really grateful somebody found him."
Funeral services were held Saturday for former New Orleans Saints player Will Smith, who was fatally shot last week, NBC News reported.
The private funeral was held at the Saenger Theatre in downtown New Orleans, followed by a private burial service, according to NOLA.com. Fans were invited on Friday to pay their respects at a Saints practice facility.
Smith’s widow, Racquel Smith, attended the viewing in a wheelchair. She was shot in the leg after a car accident on April 9 that police say led to 28-year-old Cardell Hayes opening fire. Smith was shot eight times, authorities said.
A second line parade, a mainstay in the city, in honor of Smith stretched two city blocks, according to NOLA.com.
A bill that would allow human trafficking victims to erase non-violent arrests and convictions while in captivity has some strong opposition, including the District Attorney’s office.
Eight to 12,000 victims fall prey to sex traffickers in San Diego each year according to a recent study. Though some victims are able to break away they're still burdened with a criminal record while trafficked.
"To ruin the rest of these girls’ lives because of what occurred while captive is just plain wrong,” State Senator Marty Block said.
Senator Block introduced SB 823 as part of an effort to get trafficking victims back on their feet and help them secure jobs.
Despite the bill’s intention the California District Attorneys Association issued a letter opposing the bill.
They called the bill too broad and said it was “promoting criminal conduct by creating an incentive for traffickers to enlist their victims to commit crimes, knowing...they will not be held responsible for their actions.”
"There's no burden requiring them to show they were doing this under coercion or duress,” Sean Hoffman of the California District Attorneys Association said. “It's enough to say ‘you know what, I was a human trafficking victim and now I get the slate wiped clean.’”
Senator Block strongly disagrees with that assumption.
“There’s not a gun held to their head every time they might do something that their pimp orders them to do, but they have a general fear if they don’t do it there will be consequences.”
As the director of the Bilateral Safety Corridor Coalition Marisa Ugarte works with trafficking victims. She said she supported the bill after seeing the impact that criminal records have on victims’ lives.
“It’s absolutely needed,” she told NBC 7. "Once it comes to background checks what happens? ‘Oh sorry, I was going to hire you.’ The next day they call that survivor up and say sorry we cannot hire you."
The bill is in the early stages having passed one senate committee but still has more to go.
If it passes all the hurdles it could be on the governor's desk in September and become law in January next year.
A fiery crash at a busy Del Mar intersection sent four people involved to the hospital with serious injuries, San Diego County Sheriff's Department (SDSO) Sgt. Joe Tomaiko said.
The crash happened Saturday evening just before 8 p.m. when deputies responded to a crash at the intersection of Camino Del Mar and Del Mar Heights Road in the City of Del Mar.
A Kia Soul driving northbound on Camino Del Mar collided with a Ford Explorer that was turning southbound from Camino Del Mar to Del Mar Heights Road, deputies said.
A witness on scene told authorities the driver of the Explorer turned eastbound against and ran a red light.
A second witness told police the Soul did not appear to be driving through the intersection at excessive speeds.
When authorities arrived, they found the Kia Soul engulfed in flames, Tomaiko said. The four people inside were lying on the sidewalk nearby, he said.
Fire officials quickly quelled the fire and started treating passengers.
The driver of the Explorer and both of the Soul's rear passengers were taken to Sharp Memorial Hospital's Trauma Unit.
The 32-year-old male driver and the Soul's front passenger were taken to Scripps La Jolla's Trauma Unit.
The four people inside the Kia Soul suffered "significant traumatic injuries," Tomaiko said, but those injuries do not appear to be life-threatening.
The driver of the Explorer suffered a broken nose.
Everyone injured is still in the hospital.
Drugs and alcohol do not appear to be a factor in the crash.
The investigation is ongoing.
Anyone with information is asked to call the Sheriff's Department.
No other information was immediately available.
