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VOL. 38, N0. 10
March 8, 2024
‘It’s an atrocity’
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Escondido cat killer gets 8 years
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By Samantha Nelson
ESCONDIDO — An Escondido man who tortured and killed at least 10 cats was sentenced to eight years in state prison on Friday morning at the Vista Courthouse. Joshua Tyler Boyer, 31, pleaded guilty to 10 felony counts of animal cruelty after law enforcement discovered at least 10 deceased felines in and around a toolshed at his family’s property on Reed Road in Escondido. Judge Robert J. Kearney denied the defendant’s request for probation and sentenced Boyer to eight years, the prosecution’s requested full term. Boyer was granted credits for time served and will likely serve between three and six years for LEONARD what prosecutors called one of the worst cases of animal cruelty in San Diego County. The sentence follows a thorough, multi-agency investigation led by the San Diego Humane Society’s Humane Law Enforcement in collaboration with the Escondido Police Department, San Diego County Sheriff’s Department and the FBI. Law enforcement officials started looking into Boyer on May 24, 2019, after a GPS tracker on a missing cat named Leonard eventually led to the “gruesome” discovery of several cats’ remains on his property. Investigators found fresh blood and orange hair in Boyer’s toolshed, and Leonard’s GPS tracker collar was located in the backyard of a neighboring property, but his remains were never found. Boyer was not charged with TURN TO CAT KILLER ON 13
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Del Mar defers rail task force By Laura Place
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DEL MAR — A proposal to form a residents task force to monitor plans related to the LOSSAN rail realignment project was stopped in its tracks on Monday by a City Council majority, who suggested that the concept be brought back sometime in the future. The proposed task force was brought forward by Del Mar Mayor Dave Druker and Councilmember Terry Gaasterland, both members of the city council’s rail subcommittee, who recommended a seven-person group that they would chair to review
SANDAG IS considering multiple options to move tracks off the Del Mar bluffs and into tunnels beneath the city by 2035. File photo
the environmental studies for SANDAG’s planned rail realignment project. In just over a month, the agency will kick off the environmental review process for
the project with a notice of preparation, opening a 30day window for stakeholders and the public to proTURN TO TASK FORCE ON 16
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