An hours-long standoff that began with a search warrant early Tuesday in City Heights ended in the arrest of a fourth and final suspect, San Diego Police said.

Officers evacuated residents and locked down 44th Street between Maple and Olive streets beginning at 6 a.m., San Diego police confirm.

An NBC 7 Facebook user spotted officers in full body gear with guns drawn.

Officers were serving a felony warrant for narcotics and weapons charges.

Several people were inside the home including some family members of the suspects.

By 11 a.m., three individuals sought by police - two men and one woman - were taken into custody. Another 17-year-old was arrested on a separate juvenile detention warrant.

There was a fourth man inside. He was not connected to the original felony warrant and still refused to leave the apartment.

After several tear gas shots were fired into the unit and there was no movement, FBI and NCIS and SDPD negotiation teams were brought in.

As of 3 p.m., San Diego police say the man involved in the standoff was taken into custody.

The elementary school located just down the street was not in session.

With the NFL's playoffs nearing the Super Bowl, the San Diego Chargers are looking to what the not-too-distant future holds for them in this city.

Wednesday evening, Mayor Kevin Faulconer will share his vision for the franchise.

Will it square with the team's and the ideas of whatever voters may be involved?

While the Bolts will be back playing in Qualcomm Stadium through the 2015 season, on a yearly basis they can end their lease by paying an exit fee.

Since there’s no early guarantee that they’ll renew it for 2016, a lot of people will be hanging on what the mayor says about structures such as a new stadium and expanded convention center.

But the city's infrastructure is in a state of disrepair, and putting billions of dollars toward those causes figures to be a tricky balancing act.

"If the mayor's plan is to have infrastructure treated separately from the stadium and the convention center expansion, I think that project's probably doomed," said attorney Cory Briggs, who represented civic and environmental activists in legal action that torpedoed the hotel room-tax plan
for expanding San Diego's bayfront Convention Center.

"You're not going to get a two-thirds vote to support that sort of thing; you probably don't even get a 50 percent vote,” Briggs told NBC 7 in an interview Tuesday. “That's why treating this as a stand-alone issue is completely wrong. It's misreading the voters."

For their part, Chargers are planning convention space in a hybrid stadium/sports arena complex nearby -- on 12 acres in East Village encompassing Tailgate Park and the Metro Transit bus yard.

There's talk of a joint-powers authority comprising the city, county and other government agencies.

The Bolts suggest earmarking three land parcels -- the East Village site, along with the 166-acre Qualcomm Stadium site, plus 105 acres surrounding the Valley View Center complex in the Sports Arena/Midway District – as private "leverage" to help finance the project.

"I just find it difficult to be optimistic,” said U-T San Diego sports columnist Nick Canepa. “I've been writing this thing since I was a child. And I'm not a child anymore."

Canepa points out that the St. Louis Rams' stadium proposal in Inglewood faces numerous obstacles -- starting with his fellow NFL owners – and probably should be downplayed in the minds of San Diegans, in favor of focusing on the here and now.

"I've felt for a long time that if the Chargers leave San Diego, it will not be the Chargers' fault -- it will be the city's fault,” Canepa said. “Not necessarily because they won't build them a new stadium, (but) because they didn't keep up the one they had."

Canepa’s last, brutally frank take on the issue: "The city's been a slum lord with that place, and the Chargers are tenants."

Briggs and his clients, meantime, are challenging the state Coastal Commission's approval of the convention center expansion.

That court action and potential appeals figure to prolong the uncertainty.

The conventional wisdom at City Hall and elsewhere seems to be that a ballot proposal must be put to the voters by November, 2016.

A firefighter putting out a blaze at a San Jose homeless encampment fell into what authorities say was a dangerous booby trap lined with spikes.

The firefighter was not hurt when he fell Sunday morning at the camp just east of Communications Hill, but authorities say the apparent trap was dangerous and could have injured someone.

The booby trap, a 2-foot-by-2-foot hole with wooden spikes sticking out of the bottom, was covered by a burlap sack and dirt, so the firefighter had no idea what was underneath, authorities say.

The fire department says police were notified.

Investigators have not disclosed who might have placed the trap or why anyone would put it there.

Trisha and Scott Ellis planned to be at the hospital when their baby was born, but little Seamus McLean Ellis had other ideas. He came into the world on Christmas Eve, with some help from Dad, before the couple even got out of the driveway.

Mom Trisha started having contractions around midnight, so the couple called the doctor, who said it was a good idea that they head into Saint Francis Hospital, but that was not going to happen.

By the time the couple got to the car, Seamus was close to arriving.

Fortunately, Scott, a career Thompsonville firefighter, and Trisha, a full-time EMT, have some experience with emergencies, so they did what they had to do and delivered the baby from the passenger seat of their car.

“I don’t remember being worried. I guess I had complete faith in what Scott was able to do and I knew we weren’t leaving,” Trisha said.

There was no need to worry, because Scott helped deliver his 7-pound, 21-inch-long healthy son.

However, the couple is getting a laugh out of one detail Scott neglected to check on.

“I had him all wrapped up, and we were waiting for the ambulance. And she said, ‘So do we have a son or daughter?” — and I forgot to check,” Scott said.

The couple’s other children were born at Saint Francis Hospital, but Seamus’ birth certificate lists his place of birth right at home.

Frustrated and fed-up, Vietnam veteran Don Rabush calls his fight to get Veterans Affairs benefits for an ailment caused by Agent Orange one of the worth battles he’s ever faced.

The Army second lieutenant has been working to get nearly 40 years of retroactive benefits after suffering a heart attack in 1974.

Though a doctor at the time told him the attack was not war-related, the decision was reversed in 2010 when doctors discovered Rabush suffered a heart condition from contact with Agent Orange. He encountered the chemical during his five and a half years of service.

“In Vietnam, I was fighting the Viet Cong. This is a more vicious enemy. These are people who hide behind bureaucracy not to serve veterans," Rabush told NBC 7 Tuesday.

When Rabush filed for benefits in 2010, the VA granted them. Officials are not disputing Rabush’s ailments or their cause, but when the benefits should start.

Rabush said he should get them retroactively to 1974, but the VA says they should start in 2010 when he filed his new claim.

At issue, says VA Pension Management Center Manager Gary Chesterton, is a form Rabush submitted in 1974, which the VA says was a procedural form, not a claim form.

Disabled American Veterans representative Guy Anastasia told NBC 7 Rabush’s checks say otherwise.

“I did research. I went to the legal staff here and in D.C. to verify it can be used for adjudication purposes. It can be,” Anastasia said.

VA officials say it could be months before a decision is made in Rabush’s case.

The veteran said the fight isn’t about the more than $250,000 he stands to get if he wins. Instead, Rabush said it’s more about making sure he and other veterans who risked life and limb get the benefits they need to lead a healthy life.

“It’s common knowledge that VA claims their motto is — for those that are veterans — is ‘Delay, deny until they die.’ And believe me, I’ve felt all of that,” said Rabush.

Chesterton said 87 percent of the people who work in the office are veterans, and they grant benefits as the law allows.

The Disabled American Veterans office is working with congressional leaders to craft legislation to prevent similar issues in the future.

The Chula Vista City Council has filled the seat left vacant by former councilwoman and current Mayor Mary Salas.

Steve Miesen was appointed Tuesday after hours of debate and indecision. At one point, Salas, who was overseeing the meeting, excused herself after becoming frustrated with the proceedings.

When Salas left mid-term, the city council was required to appoint someone by Jan. 23, or the decision would go to a special election – at a cost of at least $600,000 to the city.

Miesen is the division manager of Republic Services, a waste collection service in Chula Vista. He also serves on the executive committee of the Chula Vista Chamber of Commerce and the Port of San Diego’s Chula Vista Cultural and Design Committee.
 

Good news for pet owners in Little Italy: the downtown neighborhood is getting a dog park.

The field connected to Washington Elementary School is already used by many dogs and their owners.

Now, the San Diego Unified School District and the Little Italy Association have new plans to split the field at Amici Park on Date Street in half and fence off the southern half to use as a permanent dog park.

That way the four-legged furries can still use the field during school hours and the school avoids the health and safety issue of having dogs and children so close.

“It’s fantastic,” said Little Italy resident Marc Crawford. “It’s a huge amenity for Little Italy and for all of downtown to have an accessible dog park … It’s great for me. It’s close and it’s a great opportunity to meet new people and meet new dogs.”

A nearby historic home will be converted into a public restroom for the park and the Little Italy Association will maintain and run it.

Officials plan to have the new dog park open before 2020.

The park will help accommodate the estimated 2,000 dogs in the Little Italy neighborhood.

A boat caught fire in Mission Bay on Tuesday morning, fire officials said.

Smoke was seen coming from the “Bahia Belle” vessel at about 10:30 a.m.

The boat was in Mission Bay undergoing trials with a new engine when a lifeguard on a nearby boat noticed the black smoke, San Diego Fire-Rescue officials said.

After the captain returned the Bahia Belle to the Catamaran Hotel Dock on Sail Bay, marine firefighters as well as San Diego firefighters found smoke in the engine compartment.

No one was injured.

Fire officials said they suspect oil leaked onto exhaust pipes, triggering it to smoke and flare.

A mother of seven accused of murder sobbed in court Tuesday as officials testified about the day her son died.

Nine-month-old Kevin Machado died Sept. 5, 2013 after suffering blunt force trauma to his head. Family members claimed Kevin fell off the bed, but medical tests found his injuries inconsistent with that story.

The baby’s mother, 32-year-old Guadalupe O’Campos, was arrested more than a year later for first-degree murder.

San Diego Police Officer Riter Flores was called to Rady Children’s Hospital the night of Kevin’s death and interviewed O’Campos.

“She immediately appeared to start crying. She said right away, ‘I dropped the baby’,” Flores said at Tuesday’s preliminary hearing. “'Se me cayo el bebito’.”

The defense argued O’Campos’ words, “se me cayo el bebito,” can also be interpreted as “the baby fell while under my responsibility.”

Flores testified O'Campos said she was in bed with the baby and the baby's father, Alexis Machado, when the accident happened.

“As they were talking, the baby stood up -- or got on its fours -- lunged forward and fell off the bed,” Flores said. “She said he went face-first and landed on his face on the ceramic tile floor.”

Flores noted the mother's behavior at the hospital, saying she was "going through the motions, but no actual tears were coming out." The defense argued the officer didn't interview O'Campos until hours after the incident and that individuals express grief in different ways.

SDPD Sgt. Michelle Velovich, a homicide detective on the case, testified there were also inconsistencies in O'Campos' accounts of what happened.

“She was in the living room visiting with a friend from Tijuana, and she and Alexis weren’t even in the room when the baby fell, that they ran in there, picked up the baby and found him,” Velovich said O'Campos told her in January 2014.

Much of Tuesday's testimony focused on the baby's injuries, subdural bleeding outside the brain.

"We see children all the time in the emergency department at Children’s Hospital who fall off the bed, and of course their parents are worried if they hit their head," said Dr. Marilyn Kaufhold, the child abuse pediatrician who was on-call that night. "Sometimes they get a skull fracture. But they don’t get this kind of bleeding, that kind of symptomatology where they lose consciousness, have a severe, space-occupying bleed and expire.”

“It’s not consistent with an accident of any kind. I believe it’s from shaking. It’s non-accidental,” she said.

O’Campos was pregnant with her seventh child when she was charged. In an exclusive interview with NBC 7 last October, she said she got pregnant again to ease the pain of her son’s death.

Check back for updates.

Border Patrol officers came across a car on Tuesday morning with seven suspicious packages attached to its undercarriage, a day after a similar such case at a San Diego gas station.

Border Patrol officers conducting an inspection of a Kia Forte, which had stopped at the Otay Mesa Port of Entry, spotted the packages attached with high-powered magnets to the undercarriage, according to a news release from U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

Border Patrol officers said the packages contained nearly 35 pounds of marijuana. They interviewed the driver and say they are continuing to investigate the incident.

On Monday, a man notified police after finding several suspicious packages beneath his SUV while at a Chevron station on Murphy Canyon Road just west of Interstate 15.

Police described those packages as shoe-sized, cylindrical, metallic and electrical devices, which are being tested for chemicals.

San Diego police detectives were taking over the investigation and at last word, it wasn’t clear if those packages contained drugs.

It wasn't known whether the cases were connected.

Border Patrol officers recommend drivers who routinely cross the border keep a close eye on their vehicle, secure it when it’s outside of view and vary their routine.

Another case of measles has been confirmed in San Diego County, county health officials confirmed to NBC 7 Tuesday.

Officials say the case is linked to the outbreak at Disneyland resort last month. This brings the number of confirmed measles cases in San Diego County to three.

There was concern two siblings who contracted measles at Disney could have spread the disease to shoppers at Plaza Parkway Mall in El Cajon on Dec. 29. However, officials say the new patient did not catch the disease from the siblings.

Unlike the siblings, this latest patient did not expose the public to measles. The patient was not hospitalized and is currently doing well, according to health officials who could not release further details.

Thousands of people were exposed to the contagious disease at Disneyland and Disney California Adventure between Dec. 17 and Dec. 20, 2014. Symptoms include fever, cough, runny nose, red eyes and a red rash that usually first appears on the face and spreads to the rest of the body, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

On Monday, the California Department of Public Health said 26 people in four states have been linked to the Disneyland outbreak. There are 22 cases in California, not counting the latest case in San Diego. County health officials expect the total number of California cases to grow as counties continue to confirm instances of the disease.

Last year, there were more than 600 measles cases in the United States, the highest on record in almost two decades. Some doctors are blaming the anti-vaccine movement.

Former San Ysidro Superintendent Manuel Paul was sentenced to two months in jail Tuesday for threatening to withhold work from a contractor unless he gave Paul political contributions.

The former superintendent, who resigned in 2013 amid the school district’s pay-to-play scandal, told the court he is deeply sorry that he caused humiliation to the community. He pleaded guilty last August to a misdemeanor charge of deprivation of benefits for political contributions.

"I'm very sorry for what I did," Paul told the court prior to the sentencing. "I'm very sorry that I have offended and humiliated, if I did I humiliate and offend anybody in the San Ysidro school district and the community of San Ysidro where I have spent my entire professional career. Since my childhood, I lived there and worked there 57 years. If I did anything to cause any humiliation to any of the students or my community, I am deeply sorry."  

After his jail time, Paul will undergo community service as part of his one year of supervised release. He will also pay a $5,000 fine.

Magistrate Judge William Gallo said Paul used his considerable influence and authority to shape elections in a way that "runs afoul of everything a democratic society believes in."

In his plea agreement, Paul admitted to asking contractor Loreto Romero to make a $3,600 campaign contribution to three members of the San Ysidro school board, each of whom was running for re-election in 2010.

Paul made it clear to Romero that if he made the payment, he would be included on a list of potential contractors for future school building projects, funded by the district’s bond program.

“It is not a little thing because what happened is: He did it just because he could,” said former teacher Josie Hamada. “And that’s an attitude that we can’t, as educators, allow.”

NBC 7 Investigates' reporting helped prompt a federal probe into Paul’s actions. We were the first to report that Paul admitted to accepting $2,500 in cash from Romero while at a Chula Vista steakhouse’s parking lot in 2010.

Part of the defense's arguments Tuesday asserted that much of what the media reported was unverified. Gallo did not fully accept the argument, overruling most of the defense's objections.

The judge told the defendant it was extremely difficult to consider Paul's long and honorable career against what he called a "wrong turn" made by the ex-superintendent in accepting the cash.

"By all accounts, you've had an outstanding career in San Ysidro from the very beginning," Gallo told Paul before handing down his sentence. "You are well-respected, well-regarded individual who progressed up through the ranks to achieve the highest level of work as superintendent .... People look up to you. They respect you, and expected they could trust your judgment and decisions that you made would be in the best interest of the school district." 

But, the federal court judge said he had to balance those considerations against a fair sentence for the crime, as well as the need to send a message to others in the position of authority and to the community.

"They are disappointed in you. You let them down. You abused the trust that they had in you. They are rightfully, rightfully outraged," he said. 

Gallo also said the consequence of that action was the disastrous state of the district's finances.

"I think that the court put way too much weight on that and the idea that somehow Mr. Paul is bankrupting the San Ysidro district is ridiculous," said Paul's attorney Daniel Rodriguez, after the hearing. "That is not what has placed them in financial trouble, and to lay that on him was very unfair."

Last year, a jury awarded a contractor $12 million in a civil case centered on the wrongful termination of a solar panel agreement. The plaintiffs' initial arguments focused on the parking-lot cash exchange as proof of a corrupt culture in the small South Bay school district. The civil jury never heard of that cash drop-off, but Paul was unable to testify in the school district's defense because of his legal concerns about the pending criminal charges.

Rodriguez told NBC7 that Paul's name was eventually dropped from the civil lawsuit, which began in 2012, and he argued in court that factor not be considered in the judge's sentencing.

"I think it's right for me to consider the consequences," Gallo told the defendant. "You can't look at these things in a vacuum. By your conduct and your actions, you really have placed the school district, a small school district with limited financial resources, in financial jeopardy." 

Also, Paul said in 2013 that he would return his $186,000 severance package to the district if he was found guilty, but it's unclear if he still plans to do that. He declined to comment at the sentencing hearing Tuesday.

In a separate prosecution through the district attorney's office, Paul previously pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge related to filing paperwork, under penalty of perjury, that did not include all gifts he received from contractors.

Paul is one of 18 South Bay administrators, elected officials, educators and contractors implicated in a widespread corruption case prosecuted by the district attorney. By last April, the majority of the defendants had entered guilty pleas to various charges.

Another development in the San Ysidro seat played out over the weekend when current Interim Superintendent George Cameron tendered his resignation.

NBC 7's Wendy Fry was in the courtroom for Paul's sentencing, and she tweeted all the developments as they were unfolding.

When her son and his pal reach the summit of the hardest climb in the world, probably no one will be more thrilled, and relieved, than one of the climber's moms.

Gaelena Jorgeson left her home in Santa Rosa, Calif., early Wednesday morning and drove the more than four hours to Yosemite National Park. She made the trek  to witness her 30-year-old son, Kevin Jorgeson reach the top of El Capitan, and set a record for climbing the 3,000-foot granite monolith with just his hands and feet.

“I'm anxious,” Gaelena Jorgeson told NBC Bay Area before the sun came up on Wednesday. “But this is his dream.”

He and his climbing buddy Tommy Caldwell, 36, of Colorado have been “free climbing”  what’s known as the Dawn Wall on El Capitan since Dec. 27. And the world has been watching thanks to the duo’s Facebook, Twitter and Instagram feeds, along with photographers and bloggers who have been documenting their unprecedented climbing mission, which has been billed as the hardest climb in the world. The two climbers, who are climbing without the use of any gear, which they use only if they slip, are hoping to reach the top around 1 p.m. PT. Jorgeson fell however, mid-morning, putting the exact finish time in question.

Not only has Gaelena Jorgeson been watching the climb, she's also been on a roller coaster of emotions during the 18-day journey.

On the one hand, she’s worrying nearly all the time and wishes she could just “pluck Kevin from the wall and put him on the summit." But those motherly fears are overshadowed by her immense pride.

“I’m just so proud," she said. "It would be so uncool for me to voice anything negative. So I don’t.”

Gaelena Jorgeson, who is now semi-retired and rents her home out through Airbnb, said she and her ex-husband, Eric Jorgeson, enrolled young Kevin in all types of team sports when he was a kid. But nothing stuck. Until she took him to Vertex Climbing Center in Santa Rosa when he was 11.

“He just fell in love,” she said, noting that her son loves competing with himself and moves like a ballerina on the rock wall. “He’s just so deliberate and graceful. When he moves alone on the wall, it’s like poetry.”

Recognizing her son’s early passion is how she gets through the worrying, which is fueled by knowing that her eldest is sleeping in a tent suspended on ropes high above the ground and that his fingers are raw with blood from pulling himself up along the granite face. She reads everything from National Geographic to the New York Times, tunes into NBC Nightly News, and watches videos and social media to keep up with his whereabouts. And, thanks to a solar charger, she can speak to him nearly every day on his cell phone.

Kevin Jorgeson has always been determined and calm, his mother said, traits he inherited from his father. And traits that his brother, Matt, 23, does not share, as the two are quite different. Matt Jorgeson is more of a gregarious, tech-minded guy, who now manages a Verizon store in Idaho.

Gaelena Jorgeson noticed these characteristics in her firstborn starting when he was 5 months old. His soft spot grew too fast, she said, and he needed surgeries to fix some bone growth on his skull, which is when he earned the nickname, “Zipper Head.”

Those surgeries made him “mentally tough,” she said, which is what got him through Pitch 15 on the Dawn Wall.

Jorgeson tried unsuccessfully 10 ten times to climb that pitch, while Caldwell, who is more experienced, waited for him. The 11th time on Jan. 9 was a charm.

“Pure joy,” Kevin Jorgeson wrote on his Facebook page. “It took everything in my power to stay positive and resolved that I would succeed.”

His mother is sure that he will succeed.  He’s made a life out of climbing, something that is pretty rare for anyone to do. After graduating Maria Carillo High School in Santa Rosa, Kevin Jorgeson then attended Santa Rosa Junior College. But he’s been earning money since he was 16, his mom said when Marmot began sponsoring him for his international climbs. When he was a teen, he traveled to Europe and Austria to compete in World Cup climbing tours.

And when he’s not actually climbing on rocks, Kevin Jorgeson is promoting rock climbing through his business, Pro Climbers International. One of the climbers he’s climbing in memory of is Brad Parker, a good friend of his who died in August while falling off the top of Cathedral Peak in Yosemite National Park after proposing to his girlfriend. Kevin Jorgeson’s girlfriend, Jacqui Becker, and Parker’s fiancée are also close, Gaelena Jorgeson said.

“He’s paying it forward for the climbing community,” she said.

For Gaelena Jorgeson, her son’s achievement is not just about breaking a climbing record. It’s about showing people that people’s dreams can be realized.

“Everyone has their own Dawn Wall, the thing that you crave and desire,” she said. “I think Kevin is showing that the impossible is possible. ”

The threat level has been raised at the New Castle Air National Guard Base after five attempted security probes by unknown individuals this week, several federal and base sources tell NBC Philadelphia and NBC News.

One of the probes happened on Monday and four on Tuesday at the base along West Basin Road in New Castle, Delaware, counterterrorism and military sources said.

Base officials confirmed Wednesday morning that the base had increased security because of the security threat.

Vice President Joe Biden has used New Castle Air National Guard Base as it is close to his Delaware home. President Barack Obama has also visited the base twice.

The probes took place along the base's perimeter and the main gate by individuals inside vehicles who were described as "Mideastern" in appearance, sources said. A senior U.S. Defense official tells NBC News "no specific threat or individuals" have been identified.

A Delaware Air National Guard public information officer tells NBC Philadelphia's Tim Furlong the individuals drove up to several gates and asked for directions or said they were lost. In one case, the car drove away when a soldier approached the vehicle. They would not comment on the possible race of the individuals.

The threat level was raised two levels from normal to "THREATCON BRAVO" and the base has put in place a 100-percent identification check, locked gate policy and a search of all deliveries, according to sources. Base officials said it was done out of an abundance of caution.

Counterterrorism sources said the FBI, Joint Terrorism Task Force, Delaware State Police and U.S. Air Force are all investigating the incidents.

Delaware State Police tells NBC Philadelphia they have increased patrols around the base and other military facilities across the state at the request of the Delaware Air National Guard. The largest military installation in Delaware is Dover Air Force Base in Kent County.

This is a developing story. Check back for updates.

A driver tossed a wounded pit bull from a car in Brooklyn over the weekend, then intentionally backed over the animal and drove away, a witness told the rescue group that found the pooch.

Sean Casey Animal Rescue, a nonprofit no-kill shelter in the borough that also helps with rescues and places animals in loving homes, says it got a call from the person who reported witnessing the driver toss the dog and drive over it around 8:30 p.m. Sunday.

Shelter workers headed to the location the witness described -- on Pacific Street between Buffalo and Rochester avenues -- and found the female pit bull badly hurt and "clinging to life."

"We picked her up to put her in the van and found she had several bite wounds that were badly infected," the group wrote in a post on its website.

The group took the pup, which it named Meadow, to an emergency veterinary center, but said she could not be saved.

"The doctors pronounced Meadow dead on arrival," the group said.

Anyone with information about Meadow or her owner is asked to called the 77th Precinct at 718-735-0611 or Sean Casey Animal Rescue at 718-436-5163.

The fear of flying golf balls has a Riverside County family too afraid to venture outdoors.

The Ramos family bought a home that borders the Moreno Valley Ranch Golf Club in 2013, after falling in love with the gorgeous view of the greens.

Two years later, they say, incoming golf balls shattered windows constantly and have left them fearful for their safety.

"We can't even be in our backyard to enjoy the weather, enjoy the view," said adult son Armando Ramos. "We have to constantly worry about getting hit with a golf ball. We can't even have pets. It's a terrifying thing."

Ramos says the seller never disclosed any danger posed by golf balls. He'd like the golf club to pay the repair bills, which now top $400, but the club has refused.

"Moreno Valley Ranch Golf Club was built in 1987," General Manager Charlie Kong said in a statement. "Houses surrounding (the club) were built by homebuilders after the course was constructed.

"While we are sympathetic to any homeowner who may suffer damages from an errant golf ball, the fact is ownership of a home on a golf course comes with just that risk."

After being turned down by the club, the Ramos family is considering moving.

"We don't want to move, but if it keeps happening, that's something we have to do," Ramos said.

IKEA is recalling some 169,000 crib mattresses that they say pose a potential danger to infants.

The recall by the Swedish furniture retailer came in response to two reports from customers that their infants were trapped in a gap between the mattress and the crib, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission announced Tuesday. The agency said the toddlers were not injured.

“Consumers should inspect the recalled mattress by making sure there is no gap larger than the width of two fingers between the ends of the crib and the mattress,” the CPSC said in a statement. “If any gap is larger, customers should immediately stop using the recalled mattresses and return it to any IKEA store for an exchange or a full refund.”

The mattresses that are on recall are the IKEA Vyssa style with model names Vackert, Vinka, Spelevink, Sloa and Slummer. They were made in Mexico and manufactured on or before May 4, 2014, the company said.

The mattresses were sold at IKEA stores in the United States and online from August 2010 to May 2014 for about $100.

For more information on the recall, click here.

A San Diego police officer was rushed to the hospital after a suspect jumped into his patrol car and rammed the officer in Barrio Logan Tuesday night. 

The officer, identified as Officer Jeffrey Swett, was interviewing witnesses to a burglary in an alley near Main and Una streets just after 10:30 p.m.

Suddenly Swett was struck by his own patrol car, officials said.  A man at the scene had gotten into the vehicle and continued to accelerate the patrol vehicle with the officer still on the hood, according to SDPD spokesperson Lt. Mike Hastings.

Swett fell from the hood of the SUV and suffered what are being described as "serious, serious" injuries.

The Ford Explorer ended up on a wire connected to a power pole with part of the SUV suspended in the air.

“The police car is standing up on a cable wire. It’s just something from the movies. Unreal,” said Felipe Hernandez, who owns a business nearby.

The 25-year veteran officer is currently at the UCSD Medical Center in Hillcrest and expected to survive.

Homicide investigators say the man behind the wheel of the Explorer was 25-year-old William Frank Bogard.

He was shot once in the waist by a second officer at the scene. A canine officer helped get Bogard into custody. He was taken to a nearby hospital for treatment.

Hastings said the suspect suffered a wound in the lower extremity that was non-life threatening.

The SDPD shut down the Interstate 5 off-ramp to Main Street as they investigated the incident.

As to how the suspect gained access to the patrol SUV, an official statement said Swett had gotten out of the patrol vehicle and "stayed near the vehicle as he assisted with the investigation."  

Volunteers joined search crews on Wednesday in the hunt for a Los Angeles executive who went missing during a business trip in Palm Desert.

Omar Arce Meza, 33, a vice president with AIG Financial Distributors, was last seen at the Desert Springs Marriott in Palm Desert around 11 p.m. Jan. 8, officials said.

"I have my own child, and if it was my child I would want local people looking," one volunteer said.

Meza was traveling for work when he failed to show up for scheduled business meetings the following day.

"We're just in shock right now," friend Eddie Petil said. "This is just very unlike him."

He and his wife spoke on the phone as he was leaving a dinner with colleagues and said he would call her when he got to his hotel.

He was staying at the Courtyard by Marriott, but security cameras captured him walking out of the Marriott Desert Springs Resort instead. His jacket and wallet were found on the resort's golf course.

"One of his co-workers put him in an Uber cab. The intention was to send him to his hotel. I think there was probably some confusion on which Marriott to go to," wife Diane Meza said earlier this week. "He was absolutely the best thing that ever happened to me. He made everything better."

Divers searched golf course ponds Monday after bloodhounds pointed in the direction of water traps on the golf course. He was still missing as of Wednesday.

"We're not releasing anything about the investigation," Riverside County Sheriff's Deputy Armando Munoz said. "We're not saying it is foul play and we're not saying it's not foul play. We're considering all angles."

Meza was described as 5 feet 10 inches tall and about 160 pounds. He was wearing a gray pants and a white shirt when he was last seen.

Anyone with information or who may have seen Meza is asked to call the Palm Desert Sheriff’s station at 760-836-1600.

A representative with AIG declined an interview with NBC4 but said the company is working with authorities and their thoughts are with family and friends.

Christopher Barry, the son of late Mayor Marion Barry, is accused of threatening a bank employee who told him his account was overdrawn and of hurling a trash can in a Tuesday outburst.

Barry, who is a candidate to replace his father on the D.C. Council, is being investigated by police over the alleged threat. He has not been arrested.

Multiple sources familiar with the incident said Barry entered a PNC Bank on 7th Street NW Tuesday and got into an argument with bank staff.

He tried to make a large cash withdrawal, but a bank employee told him that it was too much money and that his account was overdrawn, according to court documents.

"You always give me a hard time," Barry is accused of telling the employee, according to court documents. "I'm going to have somebody waiting for you when you get off work, you [expletive]."

According to the documents, Barry then threw a trash can over the security glass, striking and breaking a security camera valued at $1,000.

Barry, 34, has a history of brushes with law enforcement. He pleaded guilty in July 2011 to charges of possession of marijuana and PCP, and he was charged with driving under the influence in 2013.

On Jan. 5, Barry filed papers for the special election to fill his father's Council seat to represent Ward 8. The elder Barry died in November at age 78.

News4 has reached out to Christopher Barry and his campaign for comment. They have not returned the calls.