Police looking for assailants in robbery, sex assault
SAN DIEGO
San Diego police are searching for two men who sexually assaulted a 22year-old woman after trying to rob her and her boyfriend last week, authorities announced Tuesday.
The incident happened Thursday at 1 p.m. at Skyline Hills Park — on Skyline Drive next to Freese Elementary School — when two men, pretending to have guns in their belts, walked up to the couple and demanded money.
While the boyfriend left to get money to comply with the demand, the attackers sexually assaulted the woman, police said.
The assailants were last seen headed through the park, traveling south.
Police described one of the attackers as a Black man, about 29 years old, 5 feet 10 inches tall, with thin build and weighing between 180 and 190 pounds. The man had a goatee and was wearing a white tank top and blue jeans.
Authorities described the other person as a Black man, about 29 years old, 5 feet 9 inches tall and 200 pounds. The man had tattoos on his left arm and both wrists, and was wearing a white tank top, blue jeans and blue shoes.
Police are asking anyone with information on the incident to call the city police sex crimes unit at (619) 531-2210 or Crime Stoppers at (888) 580-8477.
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Man fatally struck in E. Village parking garage is identified
SAN DIEGO
Authorities have publicly identified a 47-year-old man who was fatally injured last week in an East Village crash.
Joseph Taylor, of El Cajon, was walking along 11th Avenue, just north of Broadway, when he fell onto the driveway of an underground parking garage about 8:30 p.m. Friday, according to the San Diego County Medical Examiner’s Office.
Soon after the fall, a driver in a 1999 Toyota Camry turned into the garage and ran Taylor over, pinning him beneath the car’s undercarriage, officials reported.
After emergency crews freed Taylor, paramedics took him to a hospital in Hillcrest, where he died.
Man who walked away from re-entry program sought
SAN DIEGO
Authorities were searching for a man who walked away from a community reentry program for incarcerated people in San Diego on Tuesday morning, state corrections officials said.
Officials said Rosario Castro, 40, was last seen around 11:05 a.m. while he was visiting a senior citizens care facility at the intersection of Sierra Way and Broadway in Chula Vista, the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said in a news release.
Castro had an approved community pass, but it was not immediately clear why he was granted permission to go the senior-living apartment complex, said Program Manager Michael Hagemann.
A search was launched, and local law enforcement agencies were notified, officials said.
State prison officials said Castro is 5 feet, 10 inches tall and weighs about 215 pounds. He has black hair, brown eyes
and was last seen wearing a gray tshirt, dark gray cargo shorts and black tennis shoes. They did not describe his race or ethnicity.
Castro was sentenced in February 2020 to four years in prison for carjacking and vehicle theft, authorities said.
Investigators asked anyone who sees Castro or has information about his whereabouts to contact law enforcement, 911 or Hagemann at (213) 200-9771.
The Custody to Community Transitional Reentry Program allows inmates to serve their sentence in a reentry center, where they are offered rehabilitation services to help them transition back into the community.
Since 1977, 99 percent of all offenders who have left an adult institution, camp, or community-based program wi thout permission were apprehended, officials said.