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JULY 24, 2009
THE COAST NEWS
HOT OFF THE BLOCK
How do you feel about the state giving the sheriff’s department $5m to secure the border
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Prelim hearing set in stabbing By Randy Kalp
SEAN KEATING OCEANSIDE
BRETT MITTS SAN MARCOS Mexico is crazy dangerous — killing five cops a day, lots of drugs, lots of bad stuff. If we’re going to spend money on something I’d like it to be keeping that out of here. The last thing we need is San Diego turning into another Mexico with cops dying and people getting kidnapped.
I want to know why the sheriffs are getting $5 million from the state of California when (the government) can’t even afford to pay their own state income taxes, giving IOUs to people. The sheriffs are supposed to protect the public, not our borders. That’s what Homeland Security is for, what they were created to do; they haven’t done their job.
ANGELA BOLES OCEANSIDE Basically they’re taking away from the schools and they could be spending money on that.They’re taking away programs and they’re hurting kids for something that’s never really going to make a difference. It’s never going to keep immigrants from coming over to California because they’re always going to find a way.
JACK FRANCES DEL MAR I think that the sheriff’s department should either be given jurisdiction to arrest illegal immigrants and bring them to the Border Patrol, or the Border Patrol should step up and not have so many restrictions on themselves. Sheriffs should definitely have a role in it, but they shouldn’t be given money. What is money going to do?
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and park supporters. The goal of the San Dieguito Wetlands Restoration Project, along with two companion environmental projects, is to fully offset any adverse impact on ocean ecosystems caused by the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station. The plant uses ocean water for one of three cooling systems. Although innovative technologies prevent more than 90 percent of marine life near the plant’s intake system from being affected, the system does impact some small fish and fish larvae. SCE and SDG&E also hope to preserve, improve and create a variety of habitats in order to increase and maintain fish and wildlife and to ensure protection of endangered species. Additional information about the San Dieguito Wetland Restoration Project is available at www.sce.com/ wetlands.
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OCEANSIDE — A 29year-old man accused of killing an acquaintance pleaded not guilty to firstdegree murder July 15. Kade Joseph Kundrat is charged with murdering David Allen Jacobson, 23, with a knife sometime in the early morning hours of July 13 at the Seaview apartments in the 100 block of South Pacific Street in Oceanside. At the arraignment, Superior Court Judge Marshall Hockett kept Kundrat on a no bail hold because he was on parole at the time of the killing. Hockett set a July 29 date for Kundrat’s preliminary hearing. If convicted, Kundrat faces up to life in prison. When authorities arrived around 2:30 a.m., they found Jacobson dead sitting in a pool of blood near a staircase in the apartment complex, Deputy District Attorney Katherine Flaherty said outside the courtroom. Paramedics were not summoned to the scene, Flaherty said. A large gaping wound was found on the back of Jacobson’s neck, which she said appeared to be caused by a knife. While an exact motive for the killing is still unclear, Flaherty did say Kundrat had kicked Jacobson out of his apartment after an argument ensued between Jacobson and Kundrat’s two roommates, a male and female, earlier in the evening. After Jacobson left, Flaherty said there was an effort to bring the victim back to apartment and that is when the stabbing occurred. “When you have people that are arguing, it really doesn’t matter what
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