? Two women assaulte near SDSU campus: Last week, two women in their 20s were grabbed while they were walking near San Diego State University. The first incident occurred on April 15 at 9 p.m. on Campanile Drive. A man described as wearing glasses and a hood drove up beside the victim in a four-door Toyota Tacoma and grabbed her arm. The following Sunday around 3 a.m. in an alley off of Montezuma Road, a tall Asian man with spiked hair and glasses tried to pull a woman by her arm and leg. Each woman managed to break free from the assailants.
? Man dies after being pinned on trailer by wife: Last Wednesday, police began investigating the death of a 64-year-old man who was pinned between a trailer and a car by his wife in La Mesa. The wife was backing her car up when the accident occurred around 1 p.m. on Tuesday. According to a police report, the man died on the scene on the 4400 block of Dale Avenue.
? Horton Plaza Jewelry Thief: San Diego Police have released a photo in hopes of identifying a man suspected of taking $20,000 worth of custom jewelry. The suspect stole the jewelry from a car parked in the Westfield Horton Plaza Mall downtown on April 1. A man caught on a surveillance video was seen taking a red Lulu Lemon yoga bag filled with necklaces, earrings, rings and watches from the passenger seat of a car. The thief is described as between 20 and 25 years old; of medium to normal muscular build; and wearing a silver and black watch, tan pants and a striped polo shirt.
? Decreased Homelessness in the San Diego County: The Regional Task Force on the Homeless of San Diego County announced Thursday morning that there has been a 7.7 percent decrease in homelessness from the previous year. The annual report on homelessness was accounted for by 900 volunteers who walked and drove around San Diego on Jan. 25, counting the number of homeless in temporary shelters and on the streets. Of the 8,900 people in shelters, on the street or sleeping in other means of shelter, 5,747 of them were in the city of San Diego. “It’s not an exact number,” said Dolores Diaz, the executive director of the Regional Task Force on the Homeless, “We will never know the exact number of homeless in San Diego.”
? Teenagers light a car on fire: Two teenage boys were taken into custody after they had stolen a car on Sunday, April 21 after they were involved in a hit-and-run accident and lit a car on fire in the grounds of an Imperial Beach school. According to San Diego Police Officer Dan Lasher, the 16 and 17-year-old boys were involved in the car accident near Mar Vista Middle School around 3:30 a.m.. They fled the scene, leaving behind a license plate. Later, witnesses said they saw the two boys light the car on fire at Thermal Avenue and Grove Avenue and then walk away. They have been taken to juvenile hall.
