Valencia Park News

Saturday, December 19, 2009 at 1:14 a.m. SAN DIEGO COURTS - Two men convicted of a long list of felonies stemming from a series of gang-related crimes, including two 2006 murders, were sentenced yesterday to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

Monday, December 7, 2009 at 1:47 a.m. Peggy Peattie / Union-Tribune Deeshon Charles Swafford, 6, marched for peace up Euclid Avenue yesterday.

A fire razed about an 1 1/2 acres of growth in the San Diego River bed near Old Town Thursday, but no injuries were reported, officials said.

Sunday, November 22, 2009 at 9:51 a.m. SAN DIEGO a ' A teenage driver was arrested and his friend was hurt Friday night after leading officers on a high speed chase that started in Valencia Park and ended in Alta Vista when the car they were in crashed.

A suspected arson fire engulfed a detached garage in a Valencia Park neighborhood Wednesday, causing an estimated $65,000 worth of damage and leaving a suspect in police custody.

Tuesday, November 17, 2009 at 7:46 a.m. SAN DIEGO - A 22-year-old man who admitted killing a 17-year-old boy in a gang-related shooting in Valencia Park is scheduled to be sentenced today.

Monday, November 9, 2009 at 8:57 p.m. A fire caused damage to a two-story home Monday evening and left six adults and three children homeless, said Maurice Luque, a San Diego Fire-Rescue Department spokesman.

Firefighters are working to extinguish a house fire in the 5500 block of Bonita Drive, near Euclid Avenue in the Valencia Park district of southeastern San Diego.

SAN DIEGO: Two men were pulled from a bluff at the Torrey Pines Gliderport yesterday in separate but near-simultaneous cliff rescues.

Two people were injured in a possibly gang-related drive-by shooting late Friday afternoon in the Valencia Park neighborhood, a San Diego police officer said.

A brush fire broke out in a Valenica Park-area canyon Sunday, a San Diego Fire-Rescue Department dispatcher said.

SAN DIEGO a ' A registered sex offender suspected of recently kidnapping a girl pleaded not guilty Thursday in Superior Court to two felonies.

SAN DIEGO a ' A registered sex offender suspected in the attempted kidnapping of a 9-year-old girl was arrested Tuesday.

San Diego police arrested a man in the shooting death of a 26-year-old Valencia Park resident, authorities said Sunday.

San Diego police Monday are investigating the attempted abduction of a young girl in the Valencia Park neighborhood, 10News reported.

An attempted kidnapping in Valencia Park has parents on alert. Police said a nine-year-old girl was walking on Latimer Street Monday on her way to Valencia Park Elementary School when a man grabbed her and forced her into a van.

A 9-year-old elementary school student who fought off a would-be kidnapper as she walked to school described her terrifying morning after the incident.