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vessel, a 57-foot craft named the Commander, to sea from Mission Bay. They later made an emergency call to the Coast Guard, saying their boat was sinking. A helicop- ter went looking for them. A Dana Point Harbor Patrol rescue/fire boat found the two atop the partially sub- merged vessel. On February 1, the duo
admitted it was an insurance scam. They had planned to sink the vessel and collect payments. To pull off the scheme, they had destroyed the PVC piping in the engine room, causing sea water to flood in. They pumped sea water onto the craft and punctured the bulkhead to let the water spread through- out the boat. The craft was towed back
to San Diego Bay, where investigators figured out the attempted scam. Switzer
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and Gillette initially lied to officials about the incident. They face a maximum
of ten years in prison and a maximum fine of $250,000. They also have to pay more than $15,000 to the Coast Guard for the expense of the rescue operation.
Don Bauder
MTS responds to Baja Rail charges Agency confident of progress on binational railroad Metropolitan Transit System officials say that in spite of new litigation, progress is being made on the rehabili- tation of the 100-year-old binational railroad. Last week, the Reader
reported on a new lawsuit filed by a group of Pacific Imperial Railroad sharehold- ers who claim the railroad company’s new president Arturo Alemany and its longtime legal counsel and
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former president Donald Stoecklein made backroom deals to wrest control of the rail line from them. The shareholders allege
that Alemany had ties with Mexican nationals who own and operate the 38-mile stretch of track south of the border, which links up to the U.S. track. During the course of the past year, the share- holders claim, Alemany bro- kered a deal that allowed the Mexican company, Baja Rail, to take over the lease and then, without any notice, put Pacific Imperial Railroad in bankruptcy in order to com- plete the takeover. The latest lawsuit is just
a small part of the larger story, which included dozens of lawsuits from investors, allegations of fraud, and drug smuggling. All the while, Metropoli-
tan Transit System officials, including CEO Paul Jablon- ski, have remained onboard
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with the company. During that time, few repairs have been made to the line. Dead- lines imposed by the transit agency to ensure work is occurring have lapsed. As seen in a January 31,
2017, YouTube video, weeds and large boulders obstruct the track. More alarming, tunnel number six — located a few hundred yards from the Goat Canyon Trestle — recently collapsed. According to an MTS
spokesperson, despite the reports, progress is being made. “[Metropolitan Transit
System] is certainly frus- trated that continued in- fighting between [Pacific Imperial Railroad’s] prin- cipals, past and present, obscures the progress that is being made on this proj- ect. This legal action cur- rently has no impact on the sublease with Baja Rail,” reads a statement from
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Sunshine tax squeeze
Childless single adult has to make almost $28,000 According to the federal gov- ernment, 13.8 percent of San Diego County residents are living in poverty. But accord- ing to a study released January 31 by the Center on Policy Initiatives, that fed- eral figure is too optimistic. Actually, one-third of people in the county (one million persons in 269,000 house- holds) have incomes too low to meet their expenses. The federal poverty rate
doesn’t take into account a critical factor: the high cost of living in the county. It’s one of the highest in the United States, but incomes are only moderately higher. San Diegans are squeezed by what’s called the sun- shine tax.
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