A Miramar-based Marine who allegedly admitted strangling his stripper wife of two months in their Mira Mesa apartment is scheduled for a preliminary hearing Wednesday.Lance Cpl. Patrick Thomas Poteat, 21, is accused in the Jan. 5 death of Kalyn O’Barr-Poteat.At Poteat’s arraignment, Deputy District Attorney Dan Link told Judge David Szumowski that the defendant failed [...]
True, this isn’t the first draconian immigration legislation passed by a
state that is also moving to demand future presidential candidates
provide documentation that they were born in the U.S., but it is
certainly the most hateful in that, if passed, it will put police
officers in the position of immigration [...]
According to a report by San Diego Youth Services child trafficking and organized child sex tourism are so linked to corruption in Mexico that forged documents are readily obtained and government support or at least apathy is easily bought by business owners in Tijuana’s sex industry.Especially now that adult prostitution is legal in Tijuana, the [...]
Kensington originally lay outside San Diego’s municipal boundaries, but residents gradually voted to annex their subdivisions into the city to assure better fire protection. The last annexation took place in 1953.At the beginning, residents got to and from their homes by riding the Adams Avenue streetcar line. Kids attended Benjamin Franklin Elementary, opened on Copeland [...]
The Nation — The footage of a supposed “pimp and prostitute” soliciting advice from ACORN employees inSan Diegoon how to smuggle underage girls into the US was shocking. So shocking it was played ad nauseam on FOX, contributed to a hysteria that led Congress to quickly–and, turns out, unconstitutionally–pass legislation to [...]
The opening performance of Verdi’s La Traviata at the San Diego Opera started with a hiccup but ended on several high notes. The show was delayed due to the last-minute substitution of conductor Karen Keltner for Renato Palumbo, who was to make his house debut on Saturday night. It led to a musically glitchy first [...]
Sentencing was delayed until June 14 for a man convicted of smuggling two women from Mexico to Vista to work as prostitutes in North County migrant camps, a prosecutor said Monday.Adrian Zitlalpopoca-Hernandez was convicted in January of sex trafficking by force, fraud or coercion.The federal charge carries a minimum sentence of 15 years in prison. [...]
Adrian Zitlalpopoca-Hernandez Faces 15 Years In PrisonPOSTED: 4:50 am PDT April 19, 2010UPDATED: 4:55 am PDT April 19, 2010SAN DIEGO — A man convicted of smuggling two women from Mexico to Vista to work as prostitutes in North County migrant camps was scheduled to be sentenced Monday in a downtown federal courtroom.Adrian Zitlalpopoca-Hernandez [...]
Elizabeth Futral’s radiant courtesan above reproachBy Kenneth HermanPosted on Sun, Apr 18th, 2010 Last updated Sun, Apr 18th, 2010…Although much of Futral’s wide-ranging repertory is clearly off the beaten path—she sang in the world premieres of Tan Dun’s The First Emporer at the Met and San Francisco Opera’s A Streetcar [...]
San DiegoCivic Theater04/17/2010 – and 20, 23 and 25 April 2010Giuseppe Verdi: La Traviata Elizabeth Futral (Violetta Valéry), Marius Brenciu (Alfredo Germont), Alan Opie (Giorgio Germont), Joseph Hu (Gaston), Scott Sikon (Marquis dObigny), Flora Bervoix (Suzanna Guzmán), Nicolai Janitzky (Baron Douphol), Kristopher Irmiter (Dr. Grenvil), Rebecca Skaar (Annina), Nick Munson (Giuseppe), Michael Stephen Blinco [...]
