Deputy shoots man suspected of burglary, theft
A sheriff’s deputy shot an Alpine man in his leg after the man nearly rammed into deputies while trying to flee in a stolen pickup in El Cajon early Friday, San Diego police said.
After he was shot, the man sped off in the stolen truck, police homicide Lt. Steve Shebloski said.
Sheriff ’s deputies gave chase until they lost sight of him. Eventually, the driver crashed the pickup, and he was found hiding in a shed, the lieutenant said.
The man’s wounds were not considered to be life-threatening. No deputies were injured, he said.
As per a reciprocal protocol agreement, San Diego police homicide detectives investigate when sheriff ’s deputies shoot someone.
Shebloski identified the man as Brenten Kinzenbaw, 25.
The incident started about 10:30 p.m. when a patrol deputy spotted a Toyota truck parked on Oro Street near Sumner Avenue. It had been reported stolen out of Alpine earlier it the day.
Deputies watched for about 90 minutes then decided to recover the vehicle.
When they approached, they saw a man outside the truck on the passenger side, and a man in the driver’s seat.
Shebloski said they ordered the man out of the truck. He then threw the vehicle into reverse and slammed into a parked car.
Then he put the truck in drive — “accelerating quickly,” Shebloski said — and drove forward, nearly hitting deputies then colliding with a patrol vehicle.
A deputy opened fire, striking the pickup and the driver’s leg. After he shook them off during a brief chase, the fleeing driver lost control of the truck and crashed on North Second Street, near Greenfield Drive, Shebloski said.
Soon, someone called police to report hearing someone in the shed in her backyard. Deputies surrounded the area, and Kinzenbaw gave up.
He was taken to a hospital to be treated for his gunshot wound and crash injuries. Kinzenbaw was arrested on suspicion of several charges, including assault with a deadly weapon and auto theft.
The deputy who shot him has been with the department for about five years and works out of the Lakeside station.
His name was not released.
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Person struck and killed by garbage truck in San Marcos SAN MARCOS
A person was struck and killed by a trash truck at an EDCO site in San Marcos on Friday, a sheriff ’s lieutenant said.
Someone called the Sheriff’s Department just before noon to report that someone had been hit at the company’s location on Las Posas Road, just south of state Route 78, Lt. David Collins said.
Deputies went to the scene and found that the person had died, Collins said.
An EDCO spokesperson could not be reached for comment, and no further information was immediately available.
Ex-staffer pleads not guilty to phoning in threat to school VISTA
A former staff member at Rancho Buena Vista High School in Vista accused phoning in a false threat to the school two months ago has pleaded not guilty, the District Attorney’s Office said earlier this week.
Alma Cacho is charged with making a false report of an emergency, a misdemeanor that carries up to a year in a jail and a $1,000 fine, according to the complaint filed by the District Attorney’s Office.
Cacho was initially slated to be arraigned Tuesday in Vista Superior Court, but instead entered her not guilty plea last week, according to prosecutors.
Her attorney did not immediately return a request for comment, and the defendant could not be reached for comment.
Vista Unified School District officials said she resigned her post. They did not say what her job was.
In a news release last month, the Sheriff’s Department said deputies were notified of an anonymous threat of violence made at the high school on Longhorn Drive at Melrose Drive just before 8:30 a.m. Jan. 13.
Students were kept indoors in a “secure campus” status while deputies swept the campus. They found nothing.
Investigators determined the anonymous caller had made the threat using a cellphone app to disguise the call. They were able to locate the origin of the call and determine the caller was a staff member, the department said.