Here's something you might be interested in.
Ask a Hipster — Advice you didn't know you needed
Big Screen — Movie commentary
Blurt — Music's inside track
Booze News — San Diego spirits
Classical Music — Immortal beauty
Classifieds — Free and easy
Cover Stories — Front-page features
Drinks All Around — Bartenders' drink recipes
Excerpts — Literary and spiritual excerpts
Feast! — Food & drink reviews
Feature Stories — Local news & stories
Fishing Report — What’s getting hooked from ship and shore
From the Archives — Spotlight on the past
Golden Dreams — Talk of the town
The Gonzo Report — Making the musical scene, or at least reporting from it
Letters — Our inbox
Movies@Home — Local movie buffs share favorites
Movie Reviews — Our critics' picks and pans
Musician Interviews — Up close with local artists
Neighborhood News from Stringers — Hyperlocal news
News Ticker — News & politics
Obermeyer — San Diego politics illustrated
Outdoors — Weekly changes in flora and fauna
Overheard in San Diego — Eavesdropping illustrated
Poetry — The old and the new
Reader Travel — Travel section built by travelers
Reading — The hunt for intellectuals
Roam-O-Rama — SoCal's best hiking/biking trails
San Diego Beer — Inside San Diego suds
SD on the QT — Almost factual news
Sheep and Goats — Places of worship
Special Issues — The best of
Street Style — San Diego streets have style
Surf Diego — Real stories from those braving the waves
Theater — On stage in San Diego this week
Tin Fork — Silver spoon alternative
Under the Radar — Matt Potter's undercover work
Unforgettable — Long-ago San Diego
Unreal Estate — San Diego's priciest pads
Your Week — Daily event picks
Churro vendor calls the law on Tijuana policeman
A stop is put to cop’s extortion racket
Tijuana police have arrested one of their own for allegedly extorting money from a woman trying to make a living by selling churros on a well-traveled public sidewalk in the eastern part of the city, El Sol de Tijuana reports.
Churros are a popular snack in Tijuana, and virtually any visitor to the city has likely seen vendors on a street corner selling the warm confection made of extruded deep-fried dough and sprinkled with sugar. A small paper sack of six to eight churros typically costs around a buck.
According to the El Sol account, published May 8, an officer with the police department's commercial section told a woman selling churros without a city permit in the Villas del Sol neighborhood that she would have to pay him 400 pesos (about $33) if she wanted to stay in business. According to the woman, the officer had already extorted 1000 pesos (about $83) from her on prior occasions.
The woman had only 200 pesos at the time and told the officer she needed to go get the rest of the money in order to pay him, El Sol reported. But instead of getting the money, she contacted city code-enforcement officers and municipal police officers, who were waiting for the crooked cop when he returned to collect the bribe. Other street vendors also complained that they had been extorted by the same officer, the newspaper account said.
Authorities arrested Enríquez César Augusto Velázquez on charges of extortion. They said he had already been suspended from his post as an officer with the city's commercial police division, but did not say why, El Sol reported.
Here's something you might be interested in.
Churro vendor calls the law on Tijuana policeman
A stop is put to cop’s extortion racket
Churro vendor calls the law on Tijuana policeman
A stop is put to cop’s extortion racket
Tijuana police have arrested one of their own for allegedly extorting money from a woman trying to make a living by selling churros on a well-traveled public sidewalk in the eastern part of the city, El Sol de Tijuana reports.
Churros are a popular snack in Tijuana, and virtually any visitor to the city has likely seen vendors on a street corner selling the warm confection made of extruded deep-fried dough and sprinkled with sugar. A small paper sack of six to eight churros typically costs around a buck.
According to the El Sol account, published May 8, an officer with the police department's commercial section told a woman selling churros without a city permit in the Villas del Sol neighborhood that she would have to pay him 400 pesos (about $33) if she wanted to stay in business. According to the woman, the officer had already extorted 1000 pesos (about $83) from her on prior occasions.
The woman had only 200 pesos at the time and told the officer she needed to go get the rest of the money in order to pay him, El Sol reported. But instead of getting the money, she contacted city code-enforcement officers and municipal police officers, who were waiting for the crooked cop when he returned to collect the bribe. Other street vendors also complained that they had been extorted by the same officer, the newspaper account said.
Authorities arrested Enríquez César Augusto Velázquez on charges of extortion. They said he had already been suspended from his post as an officer with the city's commercial police division, but did not say why, El Sol reported.
Comments