Latest reporting from the Public Safety desk.
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The U.S. Postal Inspection Service is investigating a sticky substance found at collection boxes outside La Jolla's main post office on Wall Street, the third such report in the neighborhood since 2023.
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The San Diego Police Department received a $60,000 state grant to fund undercover operations targeting alcohol sales to minors and intoxicated patrons at bars and restaurants.
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San Diego County recorded 58 flu hospitalizations in a single week, more than 11 times last year's count, as the county launches a new forecasting tool built with UC San Diego's Resilient Shield project.
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The National Weather Service issued a Tropical Storm Watch for San Diego County on Friday as Tropical Storm Rachel approaches, threatening La Jolla with 5- to 9-foot surf, near-record tides, sustained winds above 39 mph and coastal flooding starting Sunday.
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Hurricane Rachel, currently a Category 1 storm 800 miles offshore, is projected to reach the San Diego-Tijuana area as a tropical storm by Saturday night or Sunday morning, bringing dangerous surf, flooding and rip currents to La Jolla's exposed coastline.
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Hurricane Rachel is sending surf up to 6 feet and tides near 7 feet to La Jolla's southwest-facing beaches through Friday, prompting a National Weather Service coastal flood advisory and beach hazards statement that overlap with an extreme heat warning expiring Thursday evening.
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La Jolla Cove and WindanSea Beach are under active bacteria advisories as of Oct. 3, joining the Children's Pool's decades-long warning, after a collapsed Tijuana sewage pipeline sent transboundary flows surging from 10 million to 34 million gallons per day.
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The search for sexually violent predator Merle Wakefield, who cut off his GPS ankle monitor at a Rancho Bernardo Amazon facility on Sept. 25, has entered a second week with no arrest, prompting a $1,000 Crime Stoppers reward and federal involvement in the manhunt.
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The California Highway Patrol begins a 12-hour statewide Maximum Enforcement Period at 6 p.m. Friday, Oct. 2, with all uniformed officers on patrol through early Saturday morning targeting impaired drivers.
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An Extreme Heat Warning is in effect for La Jolla and San Diego County's coast from Friday, Oct. 2, through Thursday, Oct. 8, with coastal highs in the upper 80s to low 90s, while SDG&E has notified about 35,000 inland customers of possible power shutoffs through Monday.
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The ACLU Foundation of San Diego & Imperial Counties filed suit Wednesday seeking to force the city to dismantle its 500-camera Flock license plate reader network and delete all stored data, citing California constitutional privacy rights and two wrongful arrests.
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La Jolla's Children's Pool remains under a bacteria advisory exceeding state health standards as Imperial Beach's shoreline was closed due to Tijuana River sewage and a coastal flood advisory brings hazardous surf through Wednesday, Sept. 30.