El Cajon News

A La Mesa resident was behind bars Friday on suspicion of severely beating a 76-year-old man during a road-rage confrontation outside an East County drugstore, leaving him with injuries that required hospitalization and several rounds of surgery.

Thomas Clayton Sikes, 56, was taken into custody Thursday and booked into jail about 3:30 p.m., El Cajon police said Friday.

Parts of San Diego County were seeing cooler weather and rain Friday, but temperatures in the triple digits are again expected in the deserts, forecasters said.

Denied earlier this year by the city's Planning Commission for conditional-use permits to sell liquor at the franchises at 1021 W. Washington St. and 500 N. Second St., the attorney representing the convenience stores appealed to the city at the July 22 council meeting, but the stores were denied in a 5-0 council vote.

The Fallbrook Family Resource Center will be at 202 West College Street once the relocation is complete.

In an unincorporated part of El Cajon, property owner Tommy Matthews is fighting a court order obtained by the county to access the property in order to remove weeds, trash, and other debris.

Earlier this month, the San Diego County Sheriff's Department became the first law enforcement agency in the state to have their deputies carry Naloxone NBC 7's Matt Rascon reports on the San Diego County Sheriff's Department's new practice of carrying overdose medication.

The mother of the 37-year-old man called 911 about 8:10 a.m. Wednesday and said her son was unconscious and not breathing, sheriff's Lt.

By a 3-1 vote, with Voepel in opposition and Councilman John Ryan excused, the council agreed to give the task force $2,000.

An El Cajon man's life was saved Wednesday after a sheriff's deputy administered a drug to reverse the effects of a heroin overdose.

Matt Guthmiller, 19, completed the more than 29,000-mile journey in a leased single-engine airplane late Monday night when he touched down at Gillespie Field in El Cajon, California.

"My family moved to El Cajon in 1960," says Clift, who celebrates his Granite Hills 40-year reunion this year.

A previously paroled sex offender arrested on suspicion of sexually assaulting a 70-year-old Jacumba resident in her home is scheduled to be arraigned Wednesday at the courthouse in El Cajon.

After a public hearing Tuesday, the El Cajon City Council voted unanimously to prohibit any more electronic vapor inhalation businesses from opening in the city.

Tassie Behrens, 28, faces up to seven years and four months in prison at a sentencing hearing scheduled for Sept.

After spending the last six months in jail, Kenneth C. Moureau will enter an El Cajon, California Superior Courtroom on July 22nd.

Sheriff's deputies tell CBS News 8 the victim has been taken to a hospital, and lost one of his arms in the incident.

Sheriff's detectives are looking for two possibly armed and dangerous persons of interest in the fatal shooting of a Jamaican man in El Cajon last month.

"Yes, you can ride it on the highway, and yes it is plenty fast," explained Suzuki's media rep, former MotoUSA-scribe and AMA Superbike young gun Frankie Garcia as parts and accessories man Jeff Walters tugged the cover off the new-for-USA 200cc Burgman.

An Aberdeen teen looks to make the Guiness Book of World Records by flying around the world.