Crime and Courts

Streetcar Merchants still has a Yelp page up with 1,500 reviews, plenty of photos and a 3.4 star rating.

A former San Diego restaurant owner has been convicted of a $1.7 million COVID relief-fund fraud, reports NBC 7’s Jackie Crea.

Brian Jeffrey Raymond kept nearly 500 videos and photographs he took of naked, unconscious women.

Zachary Scheich, who prosecutors said identified himself as 17-year-old ‘Zak Hess,’ pleaded guilty to sexual assault and other crimes.

Prosecutors said the suspect first shot one of the victims five times, before turning his gun on the second man, who the prosecutor said was shot “roughly 17 times.”

Fraudsters are calling residents and instructing them to pay fines to avoid jail for alleged violations like “failure to appear,” officials said

A longtime CIA officer who drugged, photographed and sexually assaulted more than two dozen women in postings around the world was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison Wednesday

Disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein pleaded not guilty on an additional sex crimes charge in a New York City courtroom on Wednesday.

Christopher Scott Preston, 55, pleaded not guilty at his arraignment on Friday.

A man who shot and killed his stepmother and half-brother in Imperial Beach pleaded guilty this week to two counts of murder.

A National City resident was behind bars on suspicion of fatally shooting two young men over the weekend in Barrio Logan.

Footage of the suspect in the apparent assassination attempt near Trump International Golf Course has been released by the Martin County Sheriff’s Office.

San Diego police were searching Sunday for the suspect responsible for a shooting in Barrio Logan that left two people dead.

A Pennsylvania man has entered no contest pleas to charges that he killed his father and stepmother with a sword in their Pennsylvania home almost five years ago.

A Bonita man who prosecutors say gave fentanyl pills to a 15-year-old girl in exchange for sex, with the drugs ultimately causing the girl’s fatal overdose, pleaded guilty in San Diego federal court.

An Arizona man who brought two teenage girls and a young woman to San Diego for the purposes of having them work as prostitutes was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison.

Officer Javier Hernandez addressed the shooter in court. NBC 7’s Shandel Menezes reports.

The Hillcrest community is feeling some relief as a man accused in several pellet gun attacks is behind bars. NBC 7’s Jeanette Quezada reports.

A judge is freeing from prison a Colorado paramedic convicted in the death of Elijah McClain, a Black man whose name became part of the rallying cries for social justice that swept the U.S. in 2020.

A man who shot and wounded a San Diego police officer following a car chase in a stolen vehicle was sentenced Friday to 47 years to life in state prison.