Improving the Pacific Beach community for everyone to enjoy
The San Diego Union - Tribune. San Diego, Calif.: Jul 22, 2007. pg. B.3
IMPERIAL BEACH — Sheriff’s deputies arrested seven motorists on suspicion of drunken driving during a six-hour DUI checkpoint Friday night and Saturday morning in Imperial Beach.
They also arrested one other driver on suspicion of drug possession and impounded 11 vehicles.
I sometimes listen to a police scanner that is available online at the following website: scansandiego.net. The scanner works with your computer audio. For instance, click on the top scanner and you’ll hear Northern Division (the Pacific Beach San Diego Police Division) scanner traffic along with all the other SDPD divisions - including ABLE, our Police helicopter.
The Beach Alcohol Task Force (BATF) was created by District Two Councilman Kevin Faulconer to be a ‘holistic’ review of alcohol-related issues in the beach communities of Pacific Beach, Mission Beach, Mission Bay Park and Ocean Beach. To that end he convened 10 meetings from October 2006 - June 2007. These meetings were initially well documented by then staffer Alison Stanley.
From my understanding of alcohol marketing most makers and distributors of alcohol products advertise to gain market share of their particular brand. Of the entire drinking universe each market segment already consumes the level they are comfortable with – some extremely high and others low levels. With that fact already a given alcohol producers need to get the drinking segments to switch brands.
This is the fourth installment to today’s Café San Diego. Please feel free to contribute to any section posted today which you will see below. To read others’ comments, click the link at the end of this section. I’ll do my best to add other elements of the dialog which may be helpful to consider.
Original Headline (below): Man Accused Of Bar Brawl Murder Pleads Not Guilty
07/5/2007 Beach and Bay Press
Jury deliberations continued this week in the murder trial of Michael Sullivan, who is charged with stabbing Jonathan Lefler-Panela outside a Pacific Beach restaurant in Jan. 2006.
July 5, 2007 - Beach and Bay Press
Two young men were ordered to stand trial on conspiracy and assault charges that indirectly involved the traffic death of their friend in Pacific Beach. The judge dismissed all charges against a third man.
Following an all-day preliminary hearing on June 29, San Diego Superior Court Judge Peter Deddeh ordered Matthew Lexin, 24, and Edward Vitela, 23, to appear in court on July 16 to set a trial date. Deddeh said testimony indicated that Justin Nizer, 23, was not near the scene of the incident and dismissed the case against the Clairemont resident.
According to testimony, Vitela and Timothy Easton, 22, both of Encinitas, left a St. Patrick’s Day party in Pacific Beach and went to a service station. Both had been drinking heavily, and they fought with some teenagers. Easton suffered a cut above his eye in the fight, and both then returned to the party.
The men then left the party to try to avenge Easton’s injury by trying to stop a motorist who was not involved in the earlier incident. According to witnesses, Lexin, Vitela and Easton surrounded a red Jeep on Agate Street and yelled obscenities to the occupants.
The bewildered motorist and his girlfriend were driving around the neighborhood looking for an apartment to rent in Pacific Beach and didn’t know who the men were or why they started kicking the car. Easton was reported to have jumped on the hood of the car. In an attempt to get away from the men, the motorist drove off, running over Easton, who later died in a hospital.
Agust n Armendariz, Brooke Williams. The San Diego Union - Tribune. San Diego, Calif.: Jul 4, 2007. pg. B.1
CORRECTION: FOR THE RECORD | In a story Wednesday about people arrested for public drunkenness, the last name of San Diego police Lt. David Rohowits was misspelled as Rohowitz. The Union-Tribune regrets the error. (Jul. 6, 2007, B-2)
Agust n Armendariz, Brooke Williams. The San Diego Union - Tribune. San Diego, Calif.: Jul 4, 2007. pg. B.1
CORRECTION: FOR THE RECORD | In a story Wednesday about people arrested for public drunkenness, the last name of San Diego police Lt. David Rohowits was misspelled as Rohowitz. The Union-Tribune regrets the error. (Jul. 6, 2007, B-2)
Part Six: Some Questions
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This is the sixth installment of the general topic: The Predominant Culture of Alcohol in Pacific Beach, CA . Please feel free to contribute to any section posted, which you will see below. To read other’s comments click the link at the end of this section.