A rescue truck used in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, made its first appearance in San Diego Thursday morning.

FDNY Rescue 5 debuted at the Toby Wells Family YMCA in Kearny Mesa as part of The Remembrance Rescue Project’s nationwide Coast to Coast Remembrance Tour.

The Remembrance Rescue Project restored Rescue 5 so it could serve as an educational tool, memorial and historical artifact. The restoration project was geared toward teaching children about the events of Sept. 11 and what the day means to fire service members across the country.

"The rig behind me is designed to educate," San Diego Fire Department Fire Chief Brian Fennessy said. "Not just as a remembrance piece, but to educate us on why it's important, why remembering is important, and why what took place [on Sept. 11, 2001] and how the world has changed since then is important."

Rescue 5 will make stops at several YMCA branches and other locations throughout San Diego until the Remembrance Tour moves north to Los Angeles in November.

Eleven New York City Fire Department firefighters from Rescue 5 lost their lives during rescue efforts at the World Trade Center. The truck remained in service in New York City until it became part of the Remembrance Rescue Project in 2001.

The Remembrance Rescue Project is a nonprofit organization created by firefighters to restore and preserve FDNY Rescue 4 and Rescue 5, and works with fire departments nationwide to host the Rescues for memorials, and educational and remembrance events.

Commissioners with the San Diego Port District on Thursday were expected to decide between two development plans that will bring astounding change to the east end of Harbor Island.

In the end, the commissioners couldn’t choose just one. Instead, they picked both, and asked the two developers to work together and come back with a revised plan.

“We dropped the green flag on these discussions and I’m very hopeful that within the next few months, we can have staff report back to us about the progress of these discussions,” said port Chairman Marshall Merrifield.

Sunroad Enterprises had proposed a $600 million plan that would have included two hotels, research space, a so-called urban beach and two pedestrian bridges.

A second plan by developer Oliver McMillan was a more ambitious $1.2 billion plan that included two hotels with up to 750-rooms, a so-called "boat-el", and a canal for kayaks and small watercraft.

The McMillan plan was recommended by Port District staff, but in the end, commissioners voted 5-1 to ask the developers to work together on a new plan.

The motion that won approval directs Sunroad to build 325 rooms on the east end of the island. McMillan will be responsible for developing the rest of the island.

Both developers said they were happy with the compromise.

“I think there were some complex issues that the board tried to wrestle through as best they could. I respect that decision and we’re going to make a good project,” said Paul Buss, president of Oliver McMillan.

It remains to be seen what will become of the proposed canal and pedestrian bridges.

“We have to see what staff can give us as far as guidance with regards to what are the features that are really most important and which are the features they think should be integrated in both parts of the project,” said Yuri Feldman, president of Sunroad Enterprises.

Whatever the final plan becomes, it will need environmental reviews and a change in the port master plan would have to be approved by the Coastal Commission. One of the developers said that the process could take up to five years.

North Korea conducted its second nuclear test in eight months on Friday, raising concerns that Pyongyang has moved a step closer to its goal of a nuclear-armed missile that could one day strike the U.S. mainland, NBC News reported.

State TV said the atomic detonation — the fifth carried out by Kim Jong Un's isolated regime — "put on a higher level [the North's] technology of mounting nuclear warheads on ballistic rockets." North Korea conducted its second nuclear test in eight months on Friday, raising concerns that Pyongyang has moved a step closer to its goal of a nuclear-armed missile that could one day strike the U.S. mainland.

State TV said the atomic detonation — the fifth carried out by Kim Jong Un's isolated regime — "put on a higher level [the North's] technology of mounting nuclear warheads on ballistic rockets."

Carlsbad police have arrested two people they believe conspired and planned the late-night shooting of a 45-year-old victim off Avenida Soledad.

Diana Lovejoy, 43, and Weldon McDavid Jr., 49, were arrested Thursday near their homes in Carlsbad and Fallbrook, respectively, police said. They were charged with Attempted Murder, Conspiracy, Assault with a Deadly Weapon and Assault with Great Bodily Injury.

Investigators say the pair conspired and planned the shooting, which happened in early September.

Authorities say McDavid, an employee at a local shooting range in Oceanside where the victim reportedly took lessons, called the victim and arranged a meeting on the access road off Avenida Soledad the night of the shooting. 

When the victim arrived, McDavid shot at the victim from the bushes and hit him once in the side, police say. He then fled. 

The victim, from San Marcos, suffered a gunshot wound to the side and was taken to a local hospital, according to police.

The shooting prompted authorities to block off more than a mile of Rancho Santa Fe Road from northbound Camino Junipero to southbound Melrose Drive just before midnight. SWAT officers searched the area and a reverse 911 call went out advising residents to stay in their homes.

Lovejoy, also charged in the shooting, is the estranged spouse of the victim, police say.

Police are still piecing together why Lovejoy and McDavid conspired to shoot the victim, as well as the connection between the two suspects, said Chief Neil Gallucci. 

“We would like to thank the community for their support and for following the reverse 911 instructions the evening of the incident. We understand how frightening it must have been to learn what had occurred in the community,” said Gallucci in a statement. “I would also like to thank the investigators for working around the clock to identify and arrest these two suspects.”

Gallucci said the incident appears to be specific to the individuals and officials do not believe there are outstanding suspects.

A Customs and Border Protection officer let undocumented immigrants into the U.S. in exchange for sexual favors and money, according to the FBI. 

Jose Luis Cota, 50, an officer at the San Ysidro Port of Entry, was arrested Wednesday. Cota faces several charges, including destruction, alteration or falsification of records, bribery of public official and receiving bribe by public official.

Miriam Elizabeth Juarez-Herrera, 31, an undocumented immigrant, also was arrested, and charged with smuggling unlawful aliens into the U.S. from Mexico. 

Authorities also arrested Gilberto Aguilar-Martinez, 31, a two-time convicted felon and previously deported undocumented immigrant. He faces a single charge of assisting with the alien smuggling operation.

According to a filed complaint, Cota allowed Juarez-Herrera and Aguilar-Martinez and others to enter the country without official authorization on multiple occasions in the past year.

FBI investigators say following the events on Nov. 3, 2015, Nov. 16, 2015, March 15, 2016 and Sept. 7, 2016, large sums of cash were deposited into his bank accounts. 

Juarez-Herrera later admitted to smuggling undocumented immigrants through the San Ysidro Port of Entry in an interview with FBI agents, according to the complaint. 

In exchange, she told agents, she paid him with monetary and sexual bribes, according to the complaint. 

In a statement, CBP said Cota first began with the agency in August 2001. He is on unpaid administrative leave.

"We do not tolerate corruption within our ranks, and we fully cooperate with any criminal or administrative investigations of alleged misconduct by any of our personnel. CBP stresses honor and integrity in every aspect of our mission, and the overwhelming majority of CBP employees and officers perform their duties with honor and distinction, working tirelessly every day to keep our country safe," a statement from the agency says.

On Thursday, Cota, Juerez-Herrera and Aguilar-Martinez were booked into the Metropolitan Correctional Center in San Diego.

At their first appearance in federal court Thursday, the U.S. moved to detain all three due to their risk of flight, according to the FBI. It was not immediately clear if any of the three had attorneys. 

The accused will next appear in court for a detention hearing on Sept. 14. A preliminary hearing is scheduled or Sept. 22. 

Newsracks lining the streets of Coronado are about to get a new look as part of a beautification effort in the seaside community.

This week, the City Council adopted new rules to create a more uniform, cleaner look when it comes to newsracks along Orange Avenue, in the heart of Coronado.

The Council agreed to update an existing newsrack ordinance established and last amended in the 1980s. Under the old ordinance, newsracks were allowed in various sizes, colors and materials, in addition to newsracks in City-owned shells.

Through the years, the City of Coronado says this has resulted in a hodgepodge of mismatched newsracks all over downtown. The city began exploring options for a more standard design for the newsracks as well as how to group them in a more compact space.

The City says the newly revised ordinance calls for newsracks to be housed inside standardized shells purchased by the city. Installation of those new, custom shells will be completed within several months. Per the ordinance, existing newsracks already permitted by the City will be allowed to relocate to a City-provided shell.

The new rules will also reduce the space in which multiple newsracks can be located, putting the racks in “desired and safe locations,” according to the City.

Coronado says the change will improve the aesthetics of the streets.

“This is an issue that impacts residents, businesses and visitors,” said City Manager Blair King in a press release. “The cleanliness and beauty of our commercial corridor is vital to our village atmosphere and a point of community pride. It’s time to clean up what has become an eyesore on our streets.”

A Queens woman was sentenced Friday to 15 years in prison for beating and starving her young stepdaughter for two years, depriving her of food and water and hitting her with baseball bats and broom handles so severely that in one case, the little girl was found lying in a pool of blood with a wrist cut so deep her tendons were visible, prosecutors said.

Sheetal Ranot, 35, was accused of locking the 12-year-old girl in her room, hitting her in the face with a rolling pin and beating her with a broken metal broom handle that cut her wrist down to the bone. She was convicted of assault and child endangerment charges in July. 

The victim's biological father, Rajesh Ranot, is also charged with assault, unlawful imprisonment and child endangerment. He will be tried at a later date. It's unclear what happened to the child after the arrests. 

Prosecutors allege the Ozone Park duo terrorized the child from December 2012 to July 2014.

According to a criminal complaint, Sheetal Ranot repeatedly hit her stepdaughter, causing bruising and pain, locked her in her bedroom and starved here for extended periods of time during that two-year span. In one case, the 31-year-old woman allegedly kicked the then 10-year-old girl in the face while wearing shoes.

Six months later, Ranot repeatedly hit the girl with a broken metal broom handle, leaving her with a cut near her knee and a cut so deep on her wrist that her tendons were exposed and she needed to have surgery, the complaint said.

Rajesh Ranot also allegedly starved the girl for years, and prosecutors say he forced her to take cold showers while he beat her with his fists and other household objects, including a baseball bat.

In April 2014, Sheetal Ranot allegedly hit her stepdaughter in the face with a wooden rolling pin. The girl had to be taken to the hospital, and doctors there saw she was painfully thin -- weighing 58 pounds -- and wearing dirty clothes. It wasn't clear if they contacted authorities.

Over the next three weeks, prosecutors allege Rajesh Ranot continued to beat his daughter with a baseball bat. The girl was taken to the emergency room, where doctors noticed various bruises, marks and scars in different stages of healing all over her body. An investigation was launched and the stepmother and father were arrested shortly afterward.

Child-welfare authorities ultimately removed the girl from the home.

As the leaves begin to turn, the doors will open this fall to some new spots in San Diego’s food and drink scene, including an eatery that specializes in sausages, tucked inside a brewery. Eater San Diego shares the buzz on new bites around town.

North Park Beer Co. Launches On-Site Eatery
Mastiff Sausage Company, which runs a popular food truck and is a food hall vendor within Liberty Public Market, has opened a new sit-down, counter service-styled eatery in North Park Beer Co. The menu features its signature housemade sausages and chef-driven seasonal plates, including corn and ricotta ravioli and roasted bone marrow.

Look Inside San Diego's Newest Tiki Bar
The companion piece to the recently reopened Craft & Commerce, a hidden tiki bar called False Idol has debuted in Little Italy. The Polynesian-inspired space, which features a flaming volcano, is serving a drink menu of tiki classics and tropical craft cocktails.

San Diego's Essential Vegan & Vegetarian Restaurants
Here's a guide to 21 local restaurants proving that meat-free dining can be flavorful and fulfilling. From Mexican and Asian-influenced menus to fast-food and finer dining, plant-based eateries are making a mark on the San Diego dining scene.

The Hake to Reopen in La Jolla, With New Ocean Views
The Hake Kitchen & Bar will reopen this month after a renovation and expansion that features more outdoor seating and a new dining room with stunning ocean views. The Prospect Street restaurant also has a new executive chef, whose menu focuses on seafood and vegetables and takes culinary inspiration from regions around the world, including Mexico, Asia and the Mediterranean.

Sushi Lounge Expands to Point Loma
With locations in Poway and Encinitas, Sushi Lounge has opened a third eatery in the heart of Point Loma's Tunaville neighborhood. The restaurant serves the same menu of small plates, nigiri sushi, sashimi and specialty rolls but has a new expanded bar program featuring craft beer, wine, sake flights and soju cocktails.

San Diego County law enforcement is receiving federal funds to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of DNA evidence collection.

The U.S. Department of Justice granted more than $475,000 Thursday to the City of San Diego and the San Diego County Sheriff's Department (SDSO).

The money will be used to improve DNA testing in the county's crime lab and to increase the number of DNA samples tested each month.

“Given continual improvements in DNA testing technology, it is now possible to obtain meaningful results from more and more sources, thereby increasing the demand on San Diego’s testing facilities,” U.S. Attorney Laura Duffy said in a written release.

Funds will be spent to audit the SDSO laboratory’s DNA analysis program and upgrade the system used to store the data as well as purchase new high-capacity computers to run DNA data interpretation software, according to the DOJ news release.

San Diego City officials are hoping to reduce the backlog by 10 percent over a 30-day period. They’ll spend the money to train DNA analysts and buy additional computer software and a server to improve security for the DNA data processed by its lab.

San Diego Police Department (SDPD) uses DNA evidence in traffic investigations as well as other crimes. DNA kits are used to swab suspects and vehicles.

The kits are then logged into evidence at the police department's 6th-floor crime lab downtown. There, lab techs also have to process kits from homicide, robbery and other police units.

Samples are tested on a priority bases depending on the crime, a department spokesperson told NBC 7 in a previous interview.

Felony crimes take precedence over misdemeanors, and sometimes the line for kits to be processed can be fast or get bottlenecked.

In 2014, state auditors examined DNA rape kits collected by the Sacramento County Sheriff's Department and the police departments in Oakland and San Diego.

They found the three agencies collected a combined 1,900 kits from 2011 through 2013, but only about 850 -- less than half -- were analyzed by crime labs.

Last year, a victims' advocacy group released a study suggesting the San Diego Police Department had 2,800 rape kits sitting untested in its lab.

The group defined a backlog as one involving any rape kit that has not been tested, however the SDPD defines a backlog as any rape kit waiting to be tested.

SDPD Spokesperson Lt. Scott Wahl told NBC 7 in May 2015 that there are various reasons why some rape kits don’t get forwarded to their laboratory for testing. Some of those reasons include the witness does not want an investigation, detectives determined no crime was committed or there wasn’t enough evidence for detectives to legally enter the information in a DNA database. He says they keep the kits in case the victim changes his or her mind in the future.

Donald Trump is promising religious activists that he will cherish, protect and defend Christian values like they've "never seen before." 

The thrice-married New York billionaire delivered a speech Friday afternoon at the Values Voter Summit in Washington. It's among the largest gatherings of conservative Christians ahead of the November election.

Trump declared that political leaders have "abandoned" people of faith in America. And he said that today's "media culture often mocks and demeans people of faith."

He made the religious conservatives a promise: In "a Trump administration, our Christian heritage will be cherished, protected, defended like you've never seen before."

Trump also promised to repeal the so-called "Johnson amendment." The law prevents religious institutions and other tax-exempt groups from endorsing political candidates.

On Friday evening, Trump held a rally in Pensacola, Florida, where he said he'd order an attack on Iranian boats if they harassed the U.S. Navy.

He was referring to a recent incident in which Iranian boats harassed a Navy destroyer near the Strait of Hormuz. 

Trump said the boats were "taunting us" and "toying with us." He says if Iran's "little boats" circle our "beautiful destroyers" when he's president, "They will be shot out of the water." 

Trump and Hillary Clinton have clashed over national security for much of the week. Each says the other doesn't have the temperament to be commander in chief.

The New York billionaire added another accusation Friday night, saying, "Personally, I think she's an unstable person."

A major earthquake on one fault line can trigger large aftershocks on separate faults, according to a new study by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego.

The study found that ruptures on fault lines can cascade and lead to aftershocks that feel as strong as large earthquakes. The Sept. 9 study looked at 48 major aftershocks to earthquakes around the world between 2004 and 2015.

In one instance, scientists discovered that a 7.0-magnitude off the coast of Indonesia in 2004 triggered two large aftershocks 124 miles away.

“These aftershocks miles away reveal that stress can be transferred almost instantaneously by the passing seismic waves from one fault to another within the earthquake fault system,” a news release from the Scripps Institution said.

Scientists said the findings had implications for California in that they could help seismologists predict what fault lines could be impacted after large earthquakes.

The study found that the locations of a main quake and an aftershock may not be directly connected.

“Multiple fault system interactions are not fully considered in seismic hazard analyses, and this study might motivate future modeling efforts to account for these effects,” Peter Shearer, the senior author of the study, said in the news release.

Craft beer aficianados, this one’s for you: San Diego’s Green Flash Brewing Co. plans to release a very rare brew next weekend – so rare, there are only 600 bottles of it.

On Sept. 17, Green Flash will release Ochre Frumento, a barleywine brew aged for six years in brandy and bourbon barrels. The deep brown beer has a 17.5 percent ABV – the highest ABV of any Green Flash Beer ever released, the company said.

Green Flash describes the brew as having a sharp aroma and boasting “prominent flavors of toffee and caramel” plus “notes of ripened stone fruits with nutty complexity” that unfolds as you sip it.

Green Flash says there are only 600 bottles of Ochre Frumento available. It will be sold only at the company’s Cellar 3 tasting room in Poway (12260 Crosthwaite Dr.) beginning at noon on Sept. 17 on a first come, first served basis.

The very limited-edition, 750ml, cork-finished bottles will cost $24 a pop; there's a strict two-bottle limit per customer.

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The special suds were created by Barrelmaster Pat Korn, who oversees operations at Cellar 3, for Green Flash Brewing’s “Barrelmaster’s Reserve Series.”

The series, which launched earlier this year, includes barrel-aged, one-off projects created by Korn produced in very small batches – between 600 to 1,800 bottles per release. The creations are bottled when ready, with essentially no real drop date. Korn makes the final call on what to bottle and when to bottle.

Ochre Frumento is the second release in the series. The first – Lustrous Frumento with Coffee – was released on May 21 and sold out within a few hours, Green Flash said.

That beer – “black ale” with a rich double-stout base – was aged for 30 months in bourbon barrels. Cold brew coffee from San Diego coffee roaster Mostra was added to intensify and complement the rich caramel and vanilla notes of the beer. It had a 13.1 percent ABV.

Korn and his crew may release additional brews in the Barrelmaster's Reserve Series this year, but details on each one of those projects will not be released until the beers are ready.

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A San Diego man learned his sentence for his role in the deaths of two people killed in a DUI crash on Interstate 8 two years ago.

Mario Castaneda-Carranza, convicted in the deadly crash on westbound I-8 near Lake Jennings Park Road on April 19, 2014, was sentenced to 30 years to life in prison yesterday, according to the District Attorney's Office.

Carranza was driving a 1997 Nissan Sentra at approximately 70 mph when, for unknown reasons, he drifted to the center divider.

While trying to correct back to the right, Carranza lost control of the car.

California Highway Patrol investigators said the car went through a chain link fence and then plowed into a concrete culvert.

 The impact killed two passengers - Carlos "C.J." Kristopher Vargas of Chula Vista and Monica Lupercio of San Diego, according to the Lupercio family. Both victims were 20 years old.

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Prosecutors filed murder charges because Carranza had a previous DUI conviction and a blood alcohol level of 0.30 at the time of the crash.

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Wisconsin's attorney general on Friday appealed the overturned conviction of Brendan Dassey, the man accused of helping his uncle kill a women in a case profiled in the popular Netflix series “Making a Murderer." 

Republican Attorney General Brad Schimel filed a notice of appeal 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, keeping the 26-year-old Dassey behind bars, according to a release from the DOJ.

“We believe the magistrate judge’s decision that Brendan Dassey’s confession was coerced by investigators, and that no reasonable court could have concluded otherwise, is wrong on the facts and wrong on the law,” Schimel said in the release. “Two state courts carefully examined the evidence and properly concluded that Brendan Dassey’s confession to sexually assaulting and murdering Teresa Halbach with his uncle, Steven Avery, was voluntary, and the investigators did not use constitutionally impermissible tactics.”

"The Halbach family has been notified of the appeal and fully supports the State’s decision to seek justice on behalf of their daughter," he added. 

Judge William E. Duffin ruled in August that investigators tricked Dassey into confessing that he helped his uncle, Steven Avery, rape and kill photographer Teresa Halbach in 2005. The judge ordered that Dassey, who was 16 at the time of the killing, be freed within 90 days unless prosecutors appealed or decided to retry him.

Dassey and Avery were sentenced to life for Halbach's murder. was killed on Halloween 2005, after she visited the Avery family's salvage yard in Manitowoc County to take pictures of a minivan. Investigators allege Avery lured her to the junkyard by asking her to take the photos.

Dassey's attorney, Steve Drizin, said he was disappointed in Schimel's decision to prolong Dassey's case by appealing.

"We look forward to continuing to defend his rights in court," Drizin said. "Like Brendan, we remain grateful to his many supporters for their continued loyalty and strength."

The Center on Wrongful Convictions of Youth legal team, based in Chicago, first took Dassey’s case to federal court in Wisconsin in 2014 in hopes that he would be granted a writ of habeas corpus, which would have forced the government to examine his case and rule whether he has been imprisoned illegally. 

Avery, a Wisconsin man who was imprisoned for 18 years for sexual assault before DNA evidence exonerated him in 2003, was accused of Halbach's murder as he was suing Manitowoc County, Wisconsin, the former district attorney and the county sheriff for wrongful imprisonment, seeking $36 million in damages.

Most recently, the show's filmmakers said a juror from Avery's murder trial claims he was not proven guilty, but the juror had voted to convict him out of fear for his/her personal safety. The two filmmakers have not yet contacted other jurors to independently verify the claim, they said. NBC News has not independently verified the allegation with any jurors.

Drizin said the team investigated Dassey’s case for two years before filing an appeal in 2010. The appeal was ultimately denied by a state appellate court and the Wisconsin Supreme Court refused to hear the case.

The habeas petition was filed in federal court in the Eastern District of Wisconsin in 2014.

“We’re hopeful is what I would say,” Drizin said at the time. “The deeper you go into this system, whether it’s in the state court system or the federal court system, the harder it is to win. We’ve won cases in federal court before and we’re hoping that this is another one that we’ll win.”

Drizin said the petition focused largely on Dassey’s original public defender, Len Kachinsky, who was ultimately removed from the case.

“A lot of our appeal has to do with the actions that Brendan’s original attorney Len Kachinsky took, which demonstrated his disloyalty to Brendan and his willingness to work with the prosecution to try to get Brendan to plead guilty and testify against Steven Avery,” Drizin said.

He also maintains that Dassey’s confession was coerced “by [investigators] feeding him facts.”

“To me, this case is a classic example of how not to interrogate juvenile suspects and the tactics that were used during Brendan’s interrogation are a recipe for false confessions,” he said.

In a brief filed last year, the state argued Dassey failed to show that the appeals court’s decision was unreasonable.

“[Investigators] merely stated, in calm tones, that they ‘already knew’ what happened and allowed Dassey to confess that he had raped Halbach, and was involved in her murder,” the brief reads. “Dassey’s confession was not coerced, and the state court’s decision on Dassey’s voluntariness claim did not involve an unreasonable application of clearly established Federal law.”

Former Calamut County District Attorney Ken Kratz, who prosecuted Dassey and Avery, recently told People magazine that he has "a great bit of sympathy" for Dassey, who he said "never would have been involved in this except for his uncle."

Dassey would have been out sooner if he had taken a plea bargain, Kratz said.

Drizin said while “Making a Murderer” has put Dassey’s case in the national spotlight, he didn't believe it would have an impact on the judge’s decision.

“I don’t think that the Netflix movie is going to influence a federal judge, but at the same time, judges are human beings and the Netflix film has created a context for Brendan’s case that didn’t exist at the time of his trial or his appeals,” he said. 

It looked like a scene from a Hollywood movie, a driver escaping his SUV as it dangled from the side of a parking garage in Austin Friday afternoon.

Austin police say the driver drove off the parking garage at the corner of Congress Avenue and East Sixth Street just after 2:30 p.m.

Andrew Miller shot video of the driver escaping from the SUV caught in the tension wires on the side of the parking garage.

"The driver was still in the driver seat when I came outside," Miller told KXAN-TV. "It looked pretty dangerous even though it wasn’t swinging."

Miller said it was a close call for a Jimmy John's delivery person who was bicycling below where the SUV came over the garage.

Emergency crews worked to get the suspended vehicle down.

A cache of high-powered firearms – including AR-15 assault rifles – were seized from a Southern California home this week, U.S. Border Patrol officials confirmed.

Border Patrol officials said four people were arrested during the seizure, which happened Wednesday during a search warrant at a home in Oxnard, California.

There, agents and other law enforcement officers with Los Angeles agencies discovered 13 firearms, including 10 AR-15 assault rifles, one semi-automatic center-fire rifle, one shotgun, one .50 caliber rifle, numerous rounds of ammunition and $10,000 in illicit money, officials said.

A woman and three men – all Mexican nationals between 23 and 35 years old – were arrested at the home for violating assault weapon possession laws. Agents determined that one of the suspects was in the U.S. illegally.

U.S. Border Patrol agents said the search at the home was the culmination of an investigator linked to a Ford F-150 truck that agents suspected was involved in cross-border smuggling activity. The truck was parked at the home raided by law enforcement.

The suspects were detained at a jail in Ventura County and their cases are being reviewing by the Ventura County District Attorney’s Office, Border Patrol officials said Friday.

No further details were released.

A Maine man was arrested after authorities say he tried to cross into Canada without legal authorization on an air mattress, according to multiple reports.

Border patrol officials detained 25-year-old John Michael Bennett after he took an inflatable mattress across the St. Croix River to New Brunswick Wednesday, the Portland Press Herald reports.

Bennett was reportedly found walking down a road, dripping wet.

The Calais resident plead guilty Thursday to crossing into Canada illegally. He says he was motivated by love and that he was trying to protect his pregnant fiancée from a violent ex-boyfriend.

Bennett attempted to travel across to St. Stephen, New Brunswick, from Maine legally Wednesday, but was turned away because of a pending criminal mischief charge in Calais, the Press Herald reports. He then returned to the U.S., bought a mattress and paddle at Wal-Mart and set sail across the river.

According to the Press Herald, Bennett was sentenced to two months in a Canadian jail and will be deported when he is freed.

Republican vice presidential candidate Mike Pence released 10 years of tax returns on Friday evening.

The returns date from 2006 until 2015. Last year, Pence's gross adjusted income was $113,026; he paid an effective tax rate of 12.4 percent and gave about $9,000 to charity, according to the campaign.

Since 2006, the family's income has fluctuated between about $188,000 in 2010 to just north of $110,000 now. In 2015, the family's earnings were its lowest in the last 10 years.

Donald Trump has declined to released his tax returns, saying he's being audited by the IRS. Trump's press secretary Hope Hicks said in a statement Friday, "When the audit is complete, Mr. Trump will release the returns."

People in Santee, worried about the reappearance of a man convicted for making lewd comments to a 12-year-old back in 2013, want to get the word out: He’s back.

The homeless man, 72 years old, returned to Santee this past week.

“I was in shock. I thought it was the end of him three years ago, but it kind of pushed me over the top,” said Breanna Melcher, now 15 years old.

Melcher spotted him just a few hundred yards from Mast Park, which is where he originally approached her with sexually explicit verbal advances.

A stranger sitting nearby noticed her facial expression turn to horror and called 911.

“His comments started getting really bad,” said Melcher who, along with her parents, filed charges leading to an eventual guilty plea for the suspect.

“You can mess with your neighbor, you can mess with whomever, but leave the darn kids alone,” said mom Christine Melcher.

But, because the conviction was a misdemeanor, the Melchers say the suspect’s name was left off the Megan’s Law website for registered sex offenders.

The Melchers were content to move on with life until the man reappeared in this month, causing community uproar.

They blasted his name and face on social media sites and neighborhood forums.

Another teenage girl saw the truck and recognized it as the same one driven by a man who approached her three years ago as well inside the Santee Library.

“She said what he was going to do to her and just really, really nasty stuff,” said Shelley, the teen’s mom who spoke to NBC 7 and opted not to use her last name.

As a convicted criminal, the man is known to sheriff deputies who’ve been instructed to respond to all community calls regarding his presence.

The calls ramped up after pictures of his distinguishable truck and camper made their way onto fliers posted on business windows and doors.

The San Diego County Sheriff’s Department reports that during each encounter, the deputies found no illegal activity or reason for arrest, but encouraged community members to stay vigilant.

A spokesperson for the San Diego County District Attorney says the man “is current on his legal obligations."

While some may wonder at what point a man who served his time and isn’t currently breaking any laws can return to society, the mothers of these two victims feel it’s not worth the risk.

“There’s too many little kids, too many families in this area. He needs to get out of San Diego,” said Shelley.