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Two injured in shooting near Encinitas coffee shop
Two injured in Encinitas shooting
Coffee store owner grazed by bullet in incident
By Laura Place
ENCINITAS — A local coffee shop owner was shot and injured and another person was wounded during an altercation last Thursday morning involving a transient man who had been asked to leave the business located in the 400 block of South Coast Highway 101.
The suspect believed to have fired the gun, 31-yearold Jmar Tarafa, was arrested and charged with assault with a deadly weapon and brandishing a firearm in a threatening manner, according to the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department.
Matthew Delarosa, owner of Ironsmith Coffee Roasters, and Tarafa are believed to have gotten into an argument in the alley behind the coffee shop around 8 a.m. on Oct. 13 after the owner asked the suspect to leave the business.
According to Lt. Christopher Lawrence, the argument escalated into a physical fight and Delarosa pulled out a firearm that was on his person.
During the struggle, the gun was fired once and Delarosa was grazed by the bullet on the back of his head and a bystander was hit in the leg with shrapnel, according to the Sheriff’s release, which also noted it was unclear who actually fired the gun during the incident.
Tarafa then took hold of the gun, prompting Delarosa to flee to a nearby fire station. According to Lawrence, Tarafa pointed the gun briefly at firefighters, but then placed it on the ground before he was detained.
Lawrence said Tarafa is believed to have fired the gun, which is why he was charged with assault with a deadly weapon. However, the department is still trying to obtain surveillance footage from nearby vehicles to make sense of exactly what happened.
Footage from the coffee shop’s surveillance camera did not provide a view of the incident, according to Lawrence. Delarosa is not facing any charges at this time. Lawrence said the case will now go to the District Attorney’s Office.
“Being a business owner, you’re allowed to carry a firearm in your business,” Lawrence said.
Both Delarosa and the bystander were treated for their injuries and are believed to have returned home, Lawrence said.
Marco San Antonio, owner of One Day Signs directly next door to Ironsmith, said Tarafa had frequently been sitting at one of the coffee shop’s outdoor tables without ever buying anything since the summer.
According to San Antonio, Tarafa would also occasionally speak loudly to himself or be seen with sharp objects like knives.
According to arrest logs, Tarafa had been arrested back in June on suspicion of felony burglary at a residence in Encinitas.
Encinitas woman, 62, pleads not guilty to misdemeanor vandalism
A 62-year-old woman pleaded not guilty this week to a misdemeanor vandalism charge after allegedly defacing more than 50 campaign signs belonging to Encinitas City Council candidate Dan Vaughn.
Teresa Conkey, of Encinitas, was arrested on Oct. 2 after witnesses reported observing an individual defacing Vaughn’s campaign signs with black spray paint the previous day along Rancho Santa Fe Road, Village Park Way and Encinitas Boulevard.
Vaughn is one of four candidates seeking the District 4 seat in Encinitas.
Conkey’s defense attorney Scott Salmu told the San Diego Union-Tribune that his client is “a respected member of the community.”
“She has cooperated with law enforcement from the very beginning, and we look forward to a resolution of this matter in the near future,” Salmu said.
The Union-Tribune reported that investigators used area surveillance footage to obtain the suspect’s license plate number before arresting Conkey. Conkey’s charge, which was filed on Oct. 6 by the District Attorney’s office, was reduced from felony vandalism to a misdemeanor charge.
SHERIFF’S DEPUTIES impound a grocery cart filled with a transient man’s belongings after he was arrested in connection with a shooting last week in Encinitas. Photo by Jordan P. Ingram
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By Rick Beavin
As inflation causes us all to stretch our dollars, the majority of Americans — including San Diego's residents — are likely focused on finding the best prices without sacrificing quality.
Health care can be expensive, so picking the right insurance plan that meets your individual or family needs can be critical to maintaining a balanced budget. Right now — during the Annual Election Period through Dec. 7 — people eligible for Medicare have the opportunity to select a plan that provides the affordability, convenience and benefits they want as well as the quality healthcare they deserve. For the 6.4 million individuals in California who rely on Medicare for their health insurance, I encourage you to make a list of what’s necessary to have in your plan and then think about what else you’d like to have included. • Network of doctors and hospitals. If you have specific doctors and hospitals you prefer, make sure they are in network for the plan you select. • More than medical coverage. Determine what benefits are important to you, based on your health status and medication requirements.
Do you want dental, vision and hearing coverage? What about prescription drug coverage? • Additional benefits. If you need transportation assistance to and from doctors’ appointments; allowances to cover out-of-pocket dental, vision or hearing expenses; access to fitness programs; or services to support your mental health, these are all considerations when selecting a plan.
If you’re interested in receiving care in your home, consider looking into a Medicare Advantage plan with providers that can provide care in the home, like CenterWell Home Health which provides care in the home for those with acute or chronic health issues. • Prescription drug coverage. Prescription drug coverage is included in many Medicare Advantage plans, but it is not part of original Medicare.
Have a list of your medications handy, so you can compare estimated prescription costs as you evaluate plan options. Some plans even offer $0 copays for prescriptions.
Your list will help you determine if original Medicare or Medicare Advantage would best fit your lifestyle.
With all-in-one plans that include dental, vision, hearing and prescription drug coverage in addition to consumer savings of nearly $2,000 per year compared with what beneficiaries pay in original Medicare, Medicare Advantage plans are increasing in popularity every year. Take time now to research your options. There are many new Medicare Advantage offerings this year, so it is worth taking the time to evaluate your options to find the best plan for your healthcare needs — and your wallet.
The Medicare Plan Finder on Medicare.gov can help compare plans, benefits and get an estimated cost for each plan.
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Rick Beavin is California Medicare President for Humana, a Medicare Advantage HMO, HMO SNP, PPO, PPO SNP AND PFFS organization with a Medicare contract.
Letters to the Editor County gun owners PAC makes endorsements
Dear Editor,
San Diego County Gun Owners (SDCGO), a political action committee (PAC) promoting Second Amendment rights in San Diego County, is endorsing the following North County candidates for the November general election:
Kelly Martinez as San Diego County Sheriff; Jim Desmond, San Diego County Supervisor, District 5; Keith Blackburn as mayor, Melanie Burkholder as council member, Carlsbad City Council; Jeff Morris as mayor, Encinitas City Council; Kori Jensen, Rick Robinson, Oceanside City Council; Jordan Marks, San Diego County Assessor-Recorder-County Clerk.
It is crucial that voters elect solidly pro-Second Amendment candidates who will speak out and defend the fundamental right to self-defense for law-abiding citizens, oppose an extremist anti-gun agenda, and stand strong in support of our civil rights.
We are proud to support local candidates who believe the purpose of the Second Amendment is an important and valuable individual right.
San Diego County Gun Owners wants to send a message that infringing on our freedoms carries big consequences.
One-size-fits-all vs. the mega-rich
One key principle behind the spate of laws passed in the last two years aimed at increasing California’s housing density is that every city in the state is essentially the same.
That’s why new laws have eliminated single-family residential zoning throughout the state, and not merely in the most sprawling cities and counties. That’s why virtually every street in the state with any commercial elements is now subject to high-rise development, if developers can be found to do the work.
It’s a one-size-fits-all philosophy that was bound to create major conflict when it began affecting the often-quirky cities that make up much of this crazy-quilt state.
One of the more eccentric such places is Atherton, long a haven for the super-rich, sitting in the midst of Silicon Valley, a short distance north of Palo Alto and Stanford University.
This 5-square-mile city of 7,060 is host to a major contingent of the wealthiest dot-com investors and executives. Its residents include the founder of Netflix; the head of video game maker Electronic Arts; the chief of the financial technology firm SoFi, for which the modern stadium housing both the Los Angeles Rams and Chargers is named; top executives of Google and Apple; and a host of venture capitalists who got fabulously wealthy by investing early in some of those firms and others.
The median home sale price there has exceeded $7 million for the last few years.
Now Atherton is being told by the state it must create 348 new housing units or suffer major losses of state funding for police, fire department, water facilities and other public needs.
But how to build that many new units, enough to house 1,000 or more persons, almost one-seventh the current population, in a town where very few homes occupy less than an acre?
And how to do that and still let many of them be priced affordably in a city where homesite land alone sometimes brings upwards of $8 million, which would raise the price per unit well above the $1 million level already seen in some other areas with high land values?
Advocates of denser housing often call local residents who oppose dense new housing developments in single-family areas NIMBYs, for Not in My Backyard.
They could find some classics in Atherton, where billionaire investor Marc Andreesen opposes new multi-family housing near his home, but in a 2020 essay griped about the lack of new housing across the country.
“We should have gleaming skyscrapers and spectacular living environments in all our best cities,” he wrote then, according to The Atlantic magazine. But duplexes and three-floor apartment buildings near his own home, uh-uh.
As conflict neared with the density enforcement unit created this year by state Attorney General Rob Bonta, several Silicon Valley giants with major executives living in Atherton began trying to buy off trouble.
Meta, the new name for Facebook’s parent, pledged $1 billion to help stave off housing woes on the San Francisco Peninsula. Google put in another $1 billion. Apple pledged $2.5 billion and Netflix supported a housing nonprofit.
A letter-writing campaign with a spate of famous signees spurred city officials to cut out the townhouse part of its housing plan, which would need state approval to become official.
Instead, the city government proposed a program encouraging residents to build and rent out additional dwelling units (ADUs) on their properties. These “grandma units” could be fenced off from the main part of large properties, providing privacy for all.
But it’s doubtful that hundreds of mansion owners could simultaneously create rental ADUs. For one thing, they would have a hard time finding enough contractors, plumbers, electricians and other tradesmen to build so many units in short order.
This sets up a seemingly inevitable battle between America’s richest city, with an average household income topping $400,000, and state officials determined to create dense new housing everywhere for even the poorest people.
Which could lead to a far wider crisis if the denizens of this posh small city should decide to take their marbles with names like Google and Facebook and Netflix and Apple and Nvidia and move them to other places.
Talk about unforeseen consequences of a well-intentioned policy!
