Four immigrants rescued near Buckman Springs EAST COUNTY:
Four people believed to be illegal immigrants were rescued in the mountains near Buckman Springs yesterday, Cal Fire officials said.
Capt. Brian Christie said a sheriff's helicopter airlifted three of the people to hospitals. He said the fourth was able to walk down to safety.
“They were definitely suffering from heat exposure,” Christie said.
Cal Fire was on the scene for 2½ hours – from about 3 p.m, when the immigrants' plight was noted by the Border Patrol, until after 5:30 p.m., Christie said.
He said the immigrants were in the mountains near the long-closed Border Patrol station on Old Highway 80 south of Buckman Springs Road.
The National Weather Service's San Diego office logged the temperature in the area yesterday afternoon in the low 90s. –L.S.
CRIME WATCH
Investigation under way
in stabbing of boy, woman
CORONADO: Police are investigating a double stabbing that left a teenage boy and young woman injured Friday night.
Someone called police about 9:45 p.m. to report an assault on Coronado Cays Boulevard and Bahama Bend, a police dispatcher said.
Officers arrived to find a 16-year-old boy and 21-year-old woman lying in the road with stab wounds.
The teen was flown to a hospital, and the woman was taken by ambulance. She was treated and released.
Officers interviewed five people seen leaving the area, but no arrests have been made. Anyone with information is asked to call Coronado police at (619) 522-7350. –K.D.
Dog sniffs out marijuana;
vehicle's owner arrested
SOUTH COUNTY: A drug-sniffing dog found 15 pounds of marijuana inside a spare tire in a vehicle yesterday, and the vehicle's owner was arrested by the county Probation Department's Field Action Specialty Team.
The probation officers were conducting a search when the department's canine alerted them to the drugs.
Officers said they found an additional 5 pounds of marijuana hidden beneath a mobile home on the property, on Palm Avenue.
The man who lived at the home was booked into County Jail for violation of probation and faces felony charges of possession of marijuana with intent to sell. –L.S.
Staff writers Lola Sherman, Kristina Davis and Susan Shroder and Enlace writer Omar Millán González contributed to this report.
