Seeking New Year’s Eve events hosted by local businesses
LODI — The News-Sentinel is seeking New Year’s Eve events hosted by Lodi-area businesses to be included in an upcoming story. The deadline to notify the newspaper is noon Wednesday.
Email events to Lodi Living Editor Kyla Cathey at kyla@lodinews.com. — News-Sentinel staff
Fugitive inmate with skull tattoo arrested in Stockton
STOCKTON — An inmate with a skull tattoo who escaped from a San Joaquin County Sheriff’s Office work crew was arrested in Stockton on Thursday, according to a post on the Stockton Police Department’s Facebook page.
The California Department of Corrections Fugitive Task Force received a tip that Corey Hughes was at a residence on the 9000 block of Don Avenue. Officers arrived at the scene and set up a perimeter. A police K-9 unit was deployed after no one answered the door of the residence, according to the post.
Hughes was taken into custody and treated at a local hospital before being booked into the San Joaquin County Jail.
Hughes was at the San Joaquin County Honor Farm on weapons charges, according to the post, and had escaped from a Sheriff’s Office work crew on Nov. 27. Hughes’ escape drew attention because of his full-face tattoo, which resembled an anatomically correct skull. — News-Sentinel staff
Police release new facts about cold case murder
STOCKTON — In the unsolved homicide of Tim Egkan, the visionary downtown Stockton developer who died more than two years ago from a stab wound, police recently released new information that it was his business partner that Egkan exchanged blows with hours earlier on the Miracle Mile.
“Yes, it was Zac Cort,” Stockton police spokesman Officer Joe Silva said this week, verifying information released previously by cold case Detective Cliff Johnson.
Despite their altercation, police say Cort is not a suspect in the ongoing homicide investigation.
Cort is president and CEO of Ten Space, a development firm playing a significant role in revitalizing Stockton’s core. At the time of his death, Egkan, 32, was Cort’s partner and chief brand officer for Ten Space.
“I have absolutely nothing to say about that,” Cort said Wednesday when given the opportunity to comment on the police department’s statement. —Stockton Record
Body found in Pacifica in 2006 is missing D.C. woman
SAN MATEO — For more than a decade, the remains of a woman found along a Highway 1 service trail in Pacifica went unidentified, but thanks to a DNA specimen contributed by a family member and advances in DNA analysis, authorities finally know her name.
The San Mateo County Coroner’s Office on Tuesday identified her as 41-year-old Christine Martell Kuhn, who had been reported missing from Washington, D.C. in 2005.
The remains, along with multiple religious items and extensive literature, were found June 6, 2006. They were badly decomposed and the woman’s cause of death was not determined.
The coroner’s office submitted her DNA to the California Department of Justice and a so-called short tandem repeat profile to the Combined DNA Index System, or CODIS.
Kuhn might have gone unidentified if not for advances in DNA analysis in recent years, the coroner’s office said.
The coroner’s office lists people it hasn’t identified on its website and Kuhn’s was the most frequently viewed. Reasons included a mugshot photo from her 2006 arrest and the unusual circumstances in which she was found, according to the coroner’s office. — San Jose Mercury News
CORRECTION
A story about the Multicultural Club on the front page of Wednesday’s NewsSentinel misidentified Sandra Vargas.