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Courtesy photo Carli Lloyd, center, and her “most favorite teammates of all time,” Courtney Thompson, left, and Christa Dietzen, show off their bronze medals after the medal ceremony for the women’s USA volleyball team on Aug. 20. See the story and more photos on B-1.
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Volume 20, Issue 36
Fallbrook Golf Club owner Jack Lamberson has been served with a notice of default from Chicago Title Company, the trustee for Ronald Richards’ D-Day Capital, LLC. A notice of default, the first step in the foreclosure process, is a notification given to a borrower stating that he or she has not made their payments by the predetermined deadline. It dictates that if the money owed (and sometimes additional legal fees) is not paid in a given time, the lender may choose to take possession of the borrower’s property. Richards, an attorney who operates out of Beverly Hills, purchased the notes on the 116acre Gird Valley property from First National Bank of Denver on June 28. The notice of default was filed with the San Diego County Recorder on Sept. 1 and states that as of Aug. 30, Lamberson owed $53,208.24 in past due payments. The notice of default states: “If your property is in foreclosure because you are behind in your payments, it may be sold without any court action, and you may have the legal right to bring your account in good standing by paying all of your past due payments plus permitted costs and expenses
San Diego Gas & Electric (SDGE) provides power to millions of customers throughout Southern California. It also powers up city and county coffers throughout the region, thanks to more than $110 million in property taxes it paid during the last fiscal year. That amount makes the utility the top taxpayer in San Diego County. It paid more than the next eight taxpayers with the biggest bills combined. Since fiscal year 2003-2004, SDG&E has paid $814 million in property taxes. SDG&E’s tax bill accounted for 2 percent of all the fiscal year 2015-2016 property taxes collected so far in the county. That’s double what the company’s share of local taxes was 10 years ago. The reason is simple: It owns a lot of land. “Consistently (SDG&E is) one of the highest taxpayers in the Southern California area because of all the assets they own,” said Dan McAllister, San Diego County treasurer and tax collector. Records from the county recorder and assessor’s office analyzed by iNewsource found 562 land parcels that SDG&E owns in the county. That includes 156 just in the city of San Diego.
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Warriors defensive back Ethan Martin (15) and linebacker Charlie Bickel (47) tackle a Del Norte rusher in a non-league game at Fallbrook Stadium. See story and more photos on page D-2
Crime rate rises in San Diego County
SAN DIEGO – A jump in homicides, auto thefts and burglaries between January and June led in part to a 4 percent increase in San Diego County’s crime rate compared with statistics from the same period in 2015, according to a study released by the San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG). Compared with 2015 mid-year statistics, the property crime rate in San Diego County was up 4 percent and the violent crime rate rose by 1 percent, according to SANDAG. However, the overall crime rate was 30 percent lower than in the same period in 2006. “Given the confounding factors that can affect crime rates, it is not possible at this point to draw any definitive conclusions as to what exactly is causing these slight increases,” said Cynthia Burke, director of the SANDAG Criminal Justice Research Division. “But despite the uptick, the current crime rate in our region is still far lower than what it was 10 years ago.” Reports of stolen vehicles increased the most during the first six months of the year – up 16 percent from 4,778 in 2015 to 5,551 this year, or an average of four more vehicles stolen per day, according to the agency’s mid-year crime report. Arson reports were close behind with a 15 percent jump from 195 in the first half of last year to 224 this year. The homicide rate rose by 14 percent, or one more per month. In the first half of this year, 49 homicides occurred in San Diego County, compared with 43 during the same time span in 2015, according to the report. Rapes were up 4 percent from 2015, but SANDAG officials said the increase may stem from law enforcement officers using
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