Santee Votes Tuesday on Council Races and a City Sales Tax
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Santee heads into Election Day with a contested council ballot that marks a genuine departure from recent cycles. Both Council District 1 and District 2 feature opposition candidates this year — a notable change given that both incumbents ran unopposed in their most recent elections.
Santee voters will also weigh a proposed one-cent city sales tax increase that is separate from the county's Measure B half-cent proposal. Depending on how both measures land, Santee residents could face two distinct local tax increases simultaneously.
The suspicious-death investigation on Graves Avenue — detailed in the public safety segment — remains the dominant news story out of East County. Investigators have described the incident as apparently isolated, and the Medical Examiner has yet to rule on cause and manner of death. The Homicide Unit is asking anyone with information to call 858-285-6330.
A sentencing from El Cajon also closes out a long-running case. Jafet Prieto, 34, was sentenced to life in prison without parole plus 25 years to life for the March 2020 drive-by shooting death of Tony Montantes on an El Cajon street. A jury previously convicted Prieto of first-degree murder and found the special-circumstance allegation — shooting from a vehicle — to be true. The sentencing was reported this past week.