A look at some of this week's police, fire and courtroom stories from across San Diego County.
Firefighters are containing a 10-inch brush fire on the Otay Mountain Truck Trail.
A driver attempting to enter the country at Calexico had 43 packages of Fentanyl in his gas tank, authorities say.
Crews have managed to contain a 70-acre wildfire burning on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border. Two firefighters were hospitalized.
A wildfire burned across rugged open terrain east of Otay Mesa and just north of the U.S.-Mexico border Tuesday.
Firefighting crews say they have stopped the spread of a 30-acre brush fire burning near Otay Mesa.
Criminal proceedings were suspended in the case of Larry Millete, who is accused of killing his wife, May "Maya" Millete.
A teen was stabbed in the lower abdomen during a Wednesday afternoon fight, police say. One suspect has been arrested.
San Diego rescue crews helped a woman stranded on the Mexican border fence, and recovered a dead man from the ocean below.
The fire sparked outside the building of the former Anthony's Fish Grotto in Chula Vista.
A mother and her child were taken to a hospital after being thrown from their bikes by a pickup, authorities said.
None were injured and all were detained.
A man was arrested in connection with a shooting that left a man dead four months ago in a South Bay alley.
Prosecutors allege that in both incidents, Serenity Nieblas, 19, was the driver, and her boyfriend, Gillio Repetto, 19, was a passenger.
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Gillio Calais Repetto, of Bonita, is accused of shooting a motorist during an apparent road-rage dispute at a Chula Vista intersection.
Members of a U.S. Marshals Service fugitive task force captured Raymond William Lynde, 30, at San Ysidro Port of Entry, authorities said.
Authorities said one man was pronounced dead at the scene. Five other people were transported to a hospital.
The shooting appeared to have been an isolated incident, according to police.
A woman accused of stabbing a man in National City pleaded not guilty to a murder charge.
One of President Joe Biden's commutations went to Ruben Lopez Cazares of Chula Vista.
Jesse Sosa of Chula Vista died at the scene.
A man who stabbed two men, killing one of them, pleaded guilty to charges of voluntary manslaughter and assault with a deadly weapon.
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An ultralight aircraft crashed on the runway of Skydive San Diego with just the pilot, a 73-year-old man, aboard.
Officers responding to reports of gunfire near the eatery arrested a man armed with a pistol outside the fast-food restaurant.
A Chula Vista man was sentenced to nearly 16 years in prison for selling fentanyl-laced pills that caused the death of a 20-year-old man.