Tag: San Diego County court news
“I stuck him.”
That’s what a Lakeside woman, Julia Gonzalez, told a sheriff’s detective about the stabbing of a Lakeside man, Justyn Nicholas Preston, 32, according to testimony on Sept. 9.
El Cajon Superior Court Judge Robert Amador ordered Gonzalez, 24, to stand trial for murder after hearing testimony from two sheriff’s detectives and a mechanic in the preliminary hearing.
Detective Brian...
A man who stabbed a 75-year-old man in El Cajon has been sentenced to 14 years in state prison, the District Attorney’s office said on Sept. 3.
Lester Kenji Riley, 41, was convicted earlier this year of attempted murder by a jury in El Cajon Superior Court, said District Atorney spokesperson Tanya Sierra.
The jury also convicted Riley of elder abuse...
A Jan. 21, 2021, trial date was set Aug. 10 for the husband of Blake Synowski, an El Cajon dentist, who is charged with murder in the force feeding of the dentist who died.
Thomas Wayne Zupner, 66, posted $250,000 bond a few days after a judge lowered his $2 million bail at his preliminary hearing on July 27.
Zupner pleaded...
A sheriff’s deputy from Santee has pleaded not guilty to 20 sex charges involving molestation of three girls.
Jaylen Devon Fleer, 27, appeared in a jail uniform from a room at the Vista Detention Facility on July 29.
Bail was set at $800,000 by Chula Vista Superior Court Judge Garry Haehnle.
He pleaded not guilty to 18 felonies and two misdemeanor charges.
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A July 16 preliminary hearing was set for the husband of El Cajon dentist Blake Synowski who is charged with murder in the asphyxiation death of the dentist.
Thomas Wayne Zupner, 65, appeared on a video screen in a room from jail in El Cajon Superior Court on June 17.
The attorneys also appeared remotely.
Synowski, 62, died from obstruction of...
