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Caleb Lunetta

Caleb Lunetta is a staff writer at The San Diego Union-Tribune, with his primary focus on breaking news and public safety issues. Before coming to San Diego, he worked as a breaking news and education reporter at The Signal newspaper in Santa Clarita. He is a graduate of California State University-Northridge.

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Police arrest man suspected to be intruder who fatally shot woman in California apartment

July 23, 2024 at 5:13 a.m.

San Diego police have arrested a man they believe was the intruder who fatally shot a woman as she tried to stop a robbery at a Talmadge apartment last week.

Jonathan Christopher Laroche was accused of putting a detained man in a stranglehold and hitting the handcuffed man's head into a wall at Naval Base San Diego

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Navy investigator pleads guilty to excessive force, concealing prior California police record

July 12, 2024 at 11:05 a.m.

Jonathan Christopher Laroche was accused of putting a detained man in a stranglehold and hitting the handcuffed man's head into a wall at Naval Base San Diego

Victor Medrano, 44, and Eliceo Flores, 36, were sentenced Tuesday in connection with a May 2022 kidnapping that involved two women being held at gunpoint and beaten, prosecutors said

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Alleged cartel associates sentenced to life in prison for California kidnapping

July 10, 2024 at 4:52 a.m.

Victor Medrano, 44, and Eliceo Flores, 36, were sentenced Tuesday in connection with a May 2022 kidnapping that involved two women being held at gunpoint and beaten, prosecutors said

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2-month-old California baby who died after being left alone in hot car ID’d

June 25, 2024 at 4:57 a.m.

Diana Sofia Aleman Roman was left inside a car for about nine hours after her family returned to their home on Settle Road near Dalehurst Road, sheriff's officials said

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Pursuit suspect accused of driving SUV through California homeless man’s tent arrested

June 25, 2024 at 5:10 a.m.

A man accused of driving an SUV through a homeless man’s tent before leading officers on a high-speed pursuit, from El Cajon to downtown San Diego, was arrested Monday, police...

Nicole Virzi, a doctoral candidate at SDSU and UCSD, was babysitting 6-week-old Leon Katz when he suffered multiple skull fractures, authorities say

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California Ph.D. student accused of killing infant, abusing twin brother

June 21, 2024 at 4:33 a.m.

Nicole Virzi, a doctoral candidate at SDSU and UCSD, was babysitting 6-week-old Leon Katz when he suffered multiple skull fractures, authorities say

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