Driver of stolen car arrested after chase

San Diego Union Tribune – San Diego,CA,USA
CARLSBAD: A man who was spotted driving a stolen car led officers on a
chase into Encinitas yesterday, where he was bitten by a police dog
before being …

CARLSBAD: A man who was spotted driving a stolen car led officers on a chase into Encinitas yesterday, where he was bitten by a police dog before being taken into custody, police said.

At 9 a.m., a detective saw the stolen black Acura Integra driving southbound on Interstate 5 at Poinsettia Lane. At 9 a.m., a detective saw the stolen black Acura Integra being driven south on Interstate 5 at Poinsettia Lane. Carlsbad police officers tried to pull over the driver near Leucadia Boulevard, but ended up chasing him to Jasper Street and Neptune Avenue in Encinitas, police said. The 25-year-old driver was found hiding behind a trailer and arrested and was arrested with the help of a police dog. –K.D.

MiraCosta official’s home vandalized

OCEANSIDE: The initials “KKK” were found scrawled on the home of a MiraCosta College official yesterday morning, and police are investigating the vandalism as a hate crime.

Board President Charles Adams, who is black, found the large letters on an an exterior an exterior wall of his home on Saratoga Street, said Oceanside police Sgt. Rick Favela said. The letters often refer to the Ku Klux Klan, a white supremacy white-supremacy group. The letters appeared to have been written with an off-white rubbery a rubbery, off-white substance similar to glue or caulk.

Adams has been the target of an angry faculty at MiraCosta for the past year since year, since an investigation into the illegal sale of palm trees grown on campus for private profit resulted in the forced departure of three popular administrators.

The Academic Senate Council at the college unanimously voted no confidence in the MiraCosta board in March.

College President Victoria Muñoz Richart said it is the third incident involving a MiraCosta official since the palm-tree controversy began. Richart said that F first, she said, trustee Carolyn Batiste, who also is black, and then Richart herself received a death threat. Anyone with information is asked to call police at (760) 435-4900. –K.D. & L.S.

Pickup rams into stopped patrol car

ENCINITAS: A sheriff’s deputy conducting a field-sobriety test on a driver early yesterday was narrowly missed by a pickup that slammed into his patrol car, authorities said.

The deputy had pulled over the female driver of a Ford Mustang on Vulcan Avenue near F Street shortly after 1 a.m. and had began to conduct the sobriety test when he saw a white pickup heading straight for them.

Deputy David Toner pulled the woman to safety before the truck hit the rear of his patrol car with such force that it struck the Mustang.

“They are lucky they didn’t get sandwiched,” sheriff’s Lt. William Donahue said.

The truck driver didn’t stop, and the vehicle went on to hit a metal sign and go over the side of an embankment off Vulcan. The driver abandoned the truck and fled.

Deputies were still trying to locate the driver. –K.K.

Man pleads guilty in pusher’s death

VISTA: Florida man accused of fatally shooting a drug dealer to steal methamphetamine in Vista 13 years ago pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter yesterday. Fri jun1

As part of a plea deal, the prosecution dropped a murder charge against Kevin Hanshew, 36. The case fell apart when three witness who testified they testified that they heard Hanshew confess to the slaying later recanted their testimony, prosecutor Jodi Breton said. in an interview.

There was still enough evidence to prove Hanshew was present when Adrian Marshall, 23, was shot twice in the head July 29, 1994, on Oak Ridge Way near Park Center Drive. Defense attorney Herb Weston credited “good legal and investigative work” for the abrupt end to the case. Hanshew, a tow-truck driver, is scheduled to be sentenced to four years in prison June 27.

However, Hanshew, who has been jailed since his November 2004 arrest, is expected to be released from jail July 6 with credit for good behavior. –J.L.J.