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61-629: The Mira Mesa neighborhood, as defined by the San Diego Police Department 's neighborhood map, is roughly bounded by Interstate 15 to the east, Camino Santa Fe to the west, the Los Peñasquitos Canyon to the north and Carroll Canyon to the south. Prior to European settlement, Mira Mesa was inhabited by the Kumeyaay peoples who lived along Penasquitos Creek. After Mexican independence , the land became part of

122-711: A Hungarian-language book about the United States. He traveled widely through the United States to gather material for the book, which praised American life and enterprise. The two-volume book was published at Pest in 1844 under the title of Utazás Éjszakamerikában ( Travels in North America ). A second edition was published in 1850. This was the second book about the United States to be published in Hungarian. In Wisconsin, Haraszthy and his cousin attempted to settle on some land at Lake Koshkonong . This effort

183-551: A board of trustees , and provide relief for the indigent in San Diego. He also led an unsuccessful movement to divide California into two states. While attending the legislature, Haraszthy began to buy real estate near Mission San Francisco de Asís (Mission Dolores) in San Francisco. His first purchase there was made on March 25, 1852. He tried to raise grapes in San Francisco but found the climate too foggy. He acquired

244-611: A Polish family, though they had lived in Hungary for many centuries and in 1272 were accepted into the Hungarian nobility . Ágoston and Eleonóra Haraszthy were the parents of six children: Géza, Attila, Árpád , Ida (later wife of lawyer Henry Hancock who owned Rancho La Brea ), Béla, and Otélia. Traveling with a maternal cousin named Károly Fischer, Haraszthy left Hungary for the United States in March 1840. Moving through Austria , Germany, and England, Haraszthy and his cousin crossed

305-581: A ferry that crossed the river, connecting Roxbury with Sauk City. Although he obtained the approval of the Wisconsin Legislature to build a bridge across the river, it was not built, for before he could get the project under way he left Wisconsin for California. Like many others, Haraszthy was excited by news of the discovery of gold in California in 1848, and by the end of that year he completed plans to leave Wisconsin. Early in 1849, he

366-666: A group of Hungarian metallurgists . He formed a partnership under the name of Haraszthy and Uznay and built a large private refinery facility, called the Eureka Gold and Silver Refinery. When a branch of the United States Mint opened in San Francisco in April 1854, Haraszthy became the first U.S. assayer . In August 1855, he became melter and refiner at the Mint. A grand jury investigation of alleged defalcations of gold from

427-488: A judge to get a search warrant in a homicide case. The investigation led to the suicide of the suspect and in 2021, a six-million dollar ruling against the department. Lambert later retired. Since the department's establishment, 37 officers have died in the line of duty. Agoston Haraszthy Agoston Haraszthy ( / ˈ ɑː ɡ ə s t ən ˈ h ær ə s t i / ; Hungarian : Haraszthy Ágoston , Spanish : Agustín Haraszthy ; August 30, 1812 – July 6, 1869)

488-474: A jury found him guilty of several charges, including felony charges of sexual battery by restraint and assault and battery by an officer. Lawsuits against the city resulted in agreements to pay more than $ 2 million relating to Arevalos' crimes. In 2011, Motorcycle Officer Christopher Hall, suspected of DUI after hitting a car and fleeing the scene in Costa Mesa , committed suicide by shooting himself in

549-495: A large sugar plantation near the seaside port of Corinto, Nicaragua , where he planned to produce rum and sell it in American markets. On July 6, 1869, he disappeared in a river on his Nicaraguan property. Whether he fell into the river and was thereafter washed out to sea, or was dragged under the water by alligators which infested the area, was never finally established. His body was never found. The claim that Haraszthy brought

610-541: A large tract of land near Crystal Springs on the San Francisco Peninsula (now part of San Mateo County ) and planted it to vineyards, but eventually gave up the effort to make wine there, again finding the climate too foggy to ripen the grapes. In both San Francisco and Crystal Springs, Haraszthy continued to import a wide variety of European grape vines and experimented with their planting and cultivation. In San Francisco, Haraszthy became friendly with

671-707: A part of southern Hungary called the Bácska , now a part of Serbia. Ágoston's father-in-law was Ferenc Dedinszky, the superintendent of a large estate at Futak on the Danube River where, among other things, vines were cultivated and wine was produced. Both of the Haraszthys were engaged in the wine business in and around Futak. On January 6, 1833, Ágoston Haraszthy married Eleonóra Dedinszky in Bács-Bodrog County, Hungary . The Dedinszkys were originally

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732-504: A partnership with Juan Bandini, a prominent Spanish-Californian, and launched a host of business and agricultural projects. He planted fruit orchards, operated a livery stable and stagecoach line, opened a butcher shop, and organized a syndicate to subdivide a large section of the San Diego Bay shore into streets, parks, and building lots. The land lay between Old Town and New San Diego and was called Middle San Diego, or Middletown. It

793-636: A private contractor, he built a jail for the city of San Diego, which was completed in 1851. Haraszthy was elected to the California State Assembly from San Diego in September 1851. He served from January 5 to May 4, 1852, advancing proposals to relieve flooding on the San Diego River, build a state hospital in San Diego, ease tax burdens on Southern California landowners, replace the debt-ridden San Diego city council with

854-474: A small vineyard northeast of the town and renamed it Buena Vista . He moved his vines there from Crystal Springs and began to expand the vineyards and hire Charles Krug as his winemaker. In 1857, he began to bore tunnels into the sides of a nearby mountain and build stone cellars at their entrance. He eventually had two large stone winery buildings, equipped with tunnels and the latest wine-making equipment in California. Haraszthy’s cellars at Buena Vista were

915-717: A steamboat that carried passengers and freight on the Wisconsin and Mississippi Rivers . He donated land on which the first Roman Catholic church and school in Sauk City were built. On the east side of the Wisconsin River, in what became the Town of Roxbury , Haraszthy planted grapes and dug wine cellars into hillside slopes above the river. The cellars and slopes are today home to the Lake Wisconsin AVA and

976-529: A trip to Europe to investigate the best European vine-planting and winemaking practices and to gather cuttings of European vines. He traveled through France, Germany, Switzerland, Spain and also his native Hungary before returning to California in December 1861 with more than 100,000 cuttings of more than 350 different varieties of vines. He offered to sell the vines to the state, propagate them in his Sonoma nursery, test them to determine which were best suited to

1037-632: Is located on New Salem Street near the main Mira Mesa Park and Recreation Center. Fire Station #44 is located at the corner of Black Mountain Road and Maya Linda Road. It includes Engine 44, Truck 44, and HAZMAT 1 and 2. Mira Mesa is served by the Northeastern division of the San Diego Police Department . A police storefront located adjacent to the Epicentre along Mira Mesa Boulevard serves

1098-715: Is the Latin form of the name, which was used in official government business and in Catholic Church records in Hungary. In the United States, Haraszthy was known as Agoston Haraszthy. As a Hungarian nobleman, Haraszthy was entitled to be addressed as Spectabilis Dominus (in Latin) or Tekintetes Úr (in Hungarian). These titles were the equivalent of Honorable Sir or Noble Lord in English. When he lived in Wisconsin in

1159-736: The Atlantic to New York, then proceeded by way of the Hudson River , the Erie Canal , and the Great Lakes to Wisconsin , eventually settling there. In Haraszthy's own words, he came to America "for one reason only–namely, to see this blessed country for myself." Haraszthy was a writer in his native Hungarian, in German (which he spoke from birth ), and later in English. When he returned to Hungary in 1842, he made arrangements to write

1220-603: The Buena Vista Winery in Sonoma, California , and an early writer on California wine and viticulture . He was the first Hungarian to settle permanently in the United States and only the second to write a book about the country in his native language. He is remembered in Wisconsin as the founder of the oldest incorporated village in the state. In San Diego , he is remembered as the first town marshal and

1281-646: The Los Angeles Police Department . Prior to the establishment of the San Diego Police Department, law enforcement services were provided by the San Diego City Marshal beginning in 1850. The first City Marshal, Agoston Haraszthy , appointed Richard Freeman a marshal, making Freeman the first African American lawman in California. In 1852, due to lack of willing individuals to take up the position,

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1342-536: The Rancho Santa Maria de Los Peñasquitos land grant to Francisco María Ruiz in 1823. Around the time of World War II the area now called Mira Mesa was used by the United States Army as a test area. Just west of U.S. Route 395 (now Interstate 15) was a Navy auxiliary landing field, known locally as Hourglass Field because the layout of the runways was a single piece of asphalt in

1403-721: The Wollersheim Winery , the second oldest winery in the United States, after the Brotherhood Winery in Washingtonville, New York in one of Wisconsin's best-known wine producing regions. Haraszthy, a legendary hunter, built a hunting lodge opposite his home, on a bluff in Roxbury overlooking the river. He also donated 100 acres (0.40 km ) of land in the town for the founding of a church and for sale at cost to immigrants. Haraszthy established

1464-415: The 1840s, the local settlers, mostly German-speaking immigrants, called him "Count" Haraszthy, although he was never addressed by that title in Hungary, California, or Nicaragua. In California, he was addressed as "Colonel" Haraszthy, an honorary designation commonly given to distinguished "gentlemen" and vaguely derived from his military service in Hungary. Both Ágoston and Károly Haraszthy owned estates in

1525-832: The California State Fair and received the highest awards. On April 23, 1862, he was elected president of the California State Agricultural Society. In 1863, Haraszthy incorporated the Buena Vista Vinicultural Society, the first large corporation in California (perhaps in the United States) organized for the express purpose of engaging in agriculture. With the support of prominent investors, he greatly expanded his vineyards in Sonoma, making wine which

1586-404: The California soil and climate, and distribute them to would-be winemakers throughout California. The Legislature refused the offer, leaving Haraszthy to distribute the vines at his own expense. It was a financial setback, as Haraszthy had expended large sums of money in gathering the vines and bringing them back to California. In Sonoma, Haraszthy became friendly with Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo ,

1647-557: The City Marshal disbanded. In 1885 the office of City Marshal was reestablished, and in 1889, with a new city charter, the police department was established. All but one police officer at the time of the establishment were White , except for one Hispanic sergeant. The sixth police chief, Edward “Ned” Bushyhead , also co-founded the San Diego Union , a predecessor to the current San Diego Union-Tribune . In 1939,

1708-460: The Mint led in September, 1857, to a federal indictment charging Haraszthy with the embezzlement of $ 151,550 in gold. A long investigation led to the dismissal of the criminal charges. A civil trial then followed, which fully exonerated Haraszthy in February 1861. While the mint investigation was pending, Haraszthy moved to Sonoma , about fifty miles north of San Francisco. In 1856, he bought

1769-854: The Mira Mesa area. Mira Mesa has about 80,000 residents, including students, families, and single people. There are over 23,000 homes in the community, averaging 3.09 people per household. The median age is 32.4 years. The neighborhood's schools are in San Diego Unified School District . In the early 1990s the Minato School (a Japanese weekend school ) held its classes at Wangenheim Junior High. However it moved to Chula Vista in 1996. The San Diego Fire-Rescue Department provide fire services to Mira Mesa through Fire Station #38 and Fire Station #44. Fire Station #38, which includes Engine 38, Truck 38, and Paramedic 38,

1830-632: The Mokcsai branch of the Haraszthy family, signifying that at one time or another his ancestors owned estates at places called Mokcsa and Haraszth (today villages in Slovakia: Krišovská Liesková , Chrasť nad Hornádom ). In Hungary, he was formally known as Mokcsai Haraszthy Ágoston. (In Hungary, family names are written first and given names last. See Hungarian names .) The name has sometimes been written as Agoston Haraszthy de Mokcsa. This

1891-407: The San Diego area. They were trying to steal prescription painkillers to feed their drug addiction. They were both subsequently terminated from SDPD, and sentenced to three years in prison. On March 15, 2015, at 5:00 a.m., SDPD officers responded to a domestic disturbance call, waking resident Ian Anderson and his six-year-old pit bull service dog, Burberry. Anderson opened the door and informed

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1952-579: The Society’s debt. Shareholders forced Haraszthy out of the Vinicultural Society in 1867 and replaced him with another manager, who tore out all of his layered vines. Haraszthy left Buena Vista for another vineyard in Sonoma owned by his wife. While living there, he filed for bankruptcy. In 1868, Haraszthy left California for Nicaragua . He formed a partnership with a German-born physician and surgeon named Theodore Wassmer and began to develop

2013-509: The United States. The Haraszthys became United States citizens and never returned to Hungary. Haraszthy formed a partnership with an Englishman named Robert Bryant and threw himself into a myriad of ambitious projects. Besides the town that he laid out, he built mills, raised corn and other grains, and kept sheep, pigs, and horses. He kept a store and opened a brickyard. Many of the oldest houses still standing in Sauk City were built with bricks from Haraszthy’s brickyard. He owned and operated

2074-579: The back, and he died immediately. An investigation concluded that the uniforms worn did not allow the policemen to be easily identified as law enforcement and that the team did not allow enough time for the family to open the door. The investigation recommended no action be taken against any of the officers. They all returned to duty. In February 2011, Sergeant Ken Davis was charged with one count of felony stalking and three counts of repeated harassment by phone or electronic contact relating to his conduct towards another police officer. Davis pleaded not guilty and

2135-549: The department moved into their headquarters on Harbor Drive, which they used until moving to their current building in 1986; in 1998 the former headquarters was placed onto the National Register of Historic Places . During World War II , one third of the department was drafted into the United States Military . In 1973, the first uniformed female officer joined the department. During the 1980s,

2196-478: The first Zinfandel vines to California is a subject of controversy. In the 1870s and 1880s, Haraszthy's son Arpad Haraszthy stated that his father brought the first Zinfandels to California in the early 1850s, possibly as early as 1852. Arpad was then a well-known sparkling wine producer in San Francisco and President of the California State Board of Viticultural Commissioners, and his statement

2257-633: The first county sheriff. In California he introduced more than three hundred varieties of European grapes. Haraszthy was born in 1812, in Pest , Hungary. He was the only child of Károly Haraszthy and his wife, Anna Mária (née Fischer). It had been previously claimed that he was born in Futak , Hungary, but that was disproved in 1995. The Haraszthys were a Hungarian noble family who traced their roots to Ung county in northeastern Hungary, now part of Hungary , Slovakia and Ukraine . Agoston Haraszthy belonged to

2318-413: The first stone wineries in the state. He added acreage to his original purchase, eventually holding more than 5,000 acres (20 km ) of valley and hillside. He was a proponent of hillside plantings, arguing that vines should be permitted to grow without irrigation . He divided some of his acreage into smaller plots, inducing prominent Californians to come to Sonoma, where he planted vineyards for them. He

2379-504: The former comandante general of Mexican California, founder of Sonoma, and a neighboring landowner and well-respected winemaker. On June 1, 1863, the Haraszthy and Vallejo families were united in a double wedding, with two of the Haraszthy sons marrying two of the Vallejo daughters. In that wedding, Natalia Vallejo became Mrs. Attila Haraszthy, and Jovita Vallejo became Mrs. Arpad Haraszthy. One of Agoston Haraszthy's great-grandchildren

2440-487: The head. In July 2012, Officer Daniel Dana pleaded no contest to committing a lewd act in public, a misdemeanor charge, in exchange with having the felony charge of sexually assaulting a prostitute dropped. It stemmed from a May 2011 event in which Dana coerced a prostitute to have sex with him in his patrol car. Dana left the police force following the charge. In November 2014, two married SDPD officers, Bryce and Jennifer Charpentier, were arrested for burglarizing homes in

2501-678: The help of Lázár Mészáros , former Hungarian Minister of War and an avid horticulturalist who was then operating a nursery in New Jersey. This evidence would tend to corroborate Arpad Haraszthy's recollections. Sullivan does not discuss it in his book, thus leaving the issue in controversy. In March 2007, Haraszthy was inducted into the Vintners Hall of Fame by the Culinary Institute of America . Seventy wine journalists cast ballots, honoring Haraszthy for his contributions to

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2562-531: The history of the American West" and "an important force in the history of California winegrowing", he argues that there is no credible evidence that Haraszthy brought the Zinfandel to California and that Arpad Haraszthy's claim about it was a "myth". In his biography of Haraszthy, however, historian Brian McGinty presents evidence that Haraszthy may well have obtained Zinfandel vines as early as 1852 with

2623-455: The local area including Scripps Ranch. San Diego Police Department The San Diego Police Department ( SDPD ) is the primary law enforcement agency of San Diego, California . It was established on May 16, 1889. The department employs 1,731 officers and 601 civilian staff. It covers 343 square miles of service area with a population of over 1.4 million people. It is the second-largest municipal police department in California, after

2684-541: The misconduct section of the police department's Misplaced Pages page five times since January 2014. ... The edits, which eliminated references to negative information, came as the police force faced several scandals over officer misconduct." Also on March 17, 2015, a U.S. Department of Justice review recommended that the SDPD overhaul its supervision practices following misconduct in which officers took advantage of women sexually. In January 2020, Detective Michael Lambert lied to

2745-559: The northernmost "real community" of San Diego, and was separated from the rest of the city by NAS Miramar for many years. By the late-1990s, the Mira Mesa area had undergone extensive expansion to accommodate the thousands of new residents attracted by its proximity to major employers like the University of California, San Diego , Marine Corps Air Station Miramar , Qualcomm , and dozens of biotech and pharmaceutical companies. Several commercial and industrial centers have been built within

2806-515: The officers that they had the wrong address. Video surveillance showed Burberry running up to one of the officers who "put his hand out in an attempt to calm the dog," Burberry then ran towards a second officer who can be seen, in a neighborhood surveillance video, to be retreating. The officer then drew his gun and shot and killed the dog. On March 17, 2015, a U-T San Diego watchdog reported: "A San Diego Police Department dispatcher and anonymous Misplaced Pages users have edited or deleted paragraphs from

2867-407: The planting of grapes throughout the state. In later years, Haraszthy’s “Report” was recognized as the first treatise on winemaking written and published in California, and praised as the “first American explication of traditional European winemaking practices.” Haraszthy contributed articles to newspapers and made speeches to gatherings of agriculturalists. He entered his wines in the competition of

2928-566: The police department was at the center of a case that came before the Supreme Court of the United States and Ninth Circuit , Kolender v. Lawson , 461 U.S. 352 (1983), which held unconstitutional laws that allow police to demand that "loiterers" and "wanderers" provide identification; this continues to affect other departments nationwide. The decade also saw officers responding to the San Ysidro McDonald's massacre ; it

2989-555: The shape of an hourglass. The Navy also used the surrounding area as a bombing range. Starting in 1969 there was a housing boom in the area that now extends from the I-15 freeway in the east to I-805 in the west and is approximately 10,500 acres (42 km). This was one of the earliest areas of urban sprawl along the I-15 Corridor. Hourglass Field became the site of San Diego Miramar College and Hourglass Field Community Park. The area

3050-455: Was a Hungarian American nobleman, adventurer, traveler, writer, town-builder, and pioneer winemaker in Wisconsin and California , often referred to as the "Father of California Wine ", alongside Junípero Serra , as well as the "Father of California Viticulture," or the "Father of Modern Winemaking in California". One of the first men to plant vineyards in Wisconsin, he was the founder of

3111-514: Was a vocal advocate of Chinese immigration, arguing that Chinese should be permitted to come to California and provide much-needed labor. He built a villa in the middle of the Buena Vista vineyards, in which he lived with his family. In 1858, Haraszthy wrote a 19-page “Report on Grapes and Wine of California,” which was published by the California State Agricultural Society. With practical advice for planting vines and making wines, it encouraged

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3172-454: Was actress Natalie Kingston . Haraszthy's management of the Buena Vista Vinicultural Society was both visionary and reckless. He borrowed large sums of money to expand the vineyards and cellars. He employed layering as a planting technique. This resulted in quicker propagation of vines but also exposed the plants to soil diseases. By the middle of the 1860s, the vines at Buena Vista were growing brown and weak. Haraszthy’s critics believed this

3233-465: Was also a decade where the department had the highest mortality rate for officers of any major American city. On March 12, 1987, a team from the SDPD raided the home of Tommie DuBose, a civil servant working for the U.S. Navy. They were attempting to serve a warrant on his son, Charles. They apparently knocked on the door, then broke it down before anyone inside could open it. After a struggle, Officer Carlos Garcia shot DuBose five times, including four in

3294-401: Was built so quickly that it lacked schools, shopping centers, or other services for its thousands of residents. In 1971 Pete Wilson started his political career running for mayor with the slogan "No more Mira Mesas!" as a promise to stop quick, unplanned growth in San Diego. Since its inception, Mira Mesa was largely influenced by the military located at the adjacent NAS Miramar. Mira Mesa was

3355-460: Was due to his layering. In fact, it was the result of the first infestation of the phylloxera ever known in California. Almost unknown before it made its appearance in Sonoma, the phylloxera spread in subsequent years throughout the California vineyards and even crossed the Atlantic to France, where it caused devastation. With production lagging, profits from Buena Vista wine were inadequate to pay

3416-512: Was elected captain of a train of wagons destined for California via the Santa Fe Trail . Although most California-bound travelers were lured westward by dreams of gold, Haraszthy said that he was going to California "to settle, not for the gold", and that he intended to plant a vineyard near San Diego . Traveling with his entire family, he left Wisconsin in March 1849 and arrived in San Diego the following December. In San Diego, he formed

3477-445: Was informally known in San Diego as “Haraszthyville”. While in San Diego, Haraszthy imported grape vines by mail. Some came from the eastern United States, others from Europe. He planted a vineyard on a tract of land near the San Diego River. On April 1, 1850, in the first election held under the new American administration of California, Haraszthy was elected sheriff of San Diego County . He also served as city marshal. In his capacity as

3538-450: Was put on paid administrative duty while on trial. He later pleaded guilty in exchange for a sentence of three years of probation and ten days of community service. On March 11, 2011, San Diego policeman Anthony Arevalos was arrested on 18 charges related to traffic stops he conducted between 2009 and 2011. He was accused of sexual assault in one instance and for asking women for their underwear in exchange for not being cited. In November,

3599-585: Was sold as far away as New York. In 1864, an article in Harper's Magazine proclaimed that Buena Vista was “the largest establishment of the kind in the world. In 1861, Haraszthy was appointed by California Governor John G. Downey as a commissioner to report to the Legislature on the “ways and means best adapted to promote the improvement and growth of the grape-vine in California”. He decided to make

3660-665: Was unsuccessful, however, so they went on to the Sauk Prairie , on the Wisconsin River west of Madison . There Haraszthy purchased a large tract of property on the west bank of the river and laid out a town. First called Széptáj (Hungarian for "beautiful place"), later Haraszthy (or Haraszthyville or Haraszthopolis), the town was renamed Westfield and finally Sauk City after Haraszthy left for California in 1849. In 1842, Haraszthy returned to Hungary to bring his parents, wife and children to Wisconsin as permanent residents of

3721-415: Was widely accepted. A century later, however, California wine historian Charles L. Sullivan began to challenge Arpad's statement. In 2003, Sullivan published a book in which he showed that other men brought the Zinfandel to the East Coast of the United States as early as the 1820s and to California at unspecified dates in the 1850s. Although Sullivan praised Agoston Haraszthy as a "truly important figure in

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