Three San Diego firefighters will stand trial Nov. 21 on charges of robbery, dissuading a witness, and making a criminal threat to two brothers in an alcohol-laced incident in which both the victims and the firefighters yelled anti-gay comments to each other. After an 8-day preliminary hearing last month, a judge threw out felony charges…
Alcohol, testosterone and anti-gay slurs are not a good mix and three San Diego firefighters will learn Sept. 20 whether they will stand trial for felony assault, battery, making a criminal threat and robbery of two brothers they encountered in Normal Heights. Both the alleged victims and the off-duty firefighters made remarks about the masculinity…
A gay bank robber whom the FBI dubbed as the “Mr. Magoo Bandit” because of his baldness and prescription glasses was sentenced March 23 to three years and one month in federal prison. Scott James Larson, 44, was ordered to pay $21,798 to all 12 banks he admitted to robbing in a series of crimes…
T odd Clayton, 22, has been generating a lot of buzz lately. The former student chaplain at Point Loma Nazarene University (PLNU), who came out of the closet a year ago amid a flurry of publicity, has just had his writing work published in the Huffington Post and twice on Sojourners. He has had 40,000…
BY MIKE SPRADLEY The San Diego Police Department (SDPD) is currently looking for any information that leads to the arrest of a suspect linked to several robberies in the Hillcrest, North Park and Uptown neighborhoods. The suspect, who was described as a black male, approximately mid-to late 40s, 6 feet 2 inches tall and weighing…
Police say the man suspected of shooting a transgender woman Thursday in Hollywood may have also been the same man who robbed and shot fire toward another transgender victim in West Hollywood just 45 minutes after the heinous murder. Cassidy Nathan Vickers, 32, died Thursday from gunshot wounds before police arrived on scene. She was…
