Ex-MBHS coach faces May 14 arraignment on drug counts A former assistant coach at Mission Bay High School is awaiting a preliminary hearing on July 16 on charges of selling and transporting methamphetamine. Danny Ray Pamaran, 46, pleaded not guilty to the charges during a May 14 arraignment and was allowed to remain free on $20,000 bond. Pamaran was arrested May 7 by San Diego police in Pacific Beach. The eight charges allege he sold, furnished, transported and possessed methamphetamine for sale on May 1 and May 7. Pamaran worked as an assistant baseball coach but he did not teach classes at Mission Bay High. He was reportedly discharged from his duties by school officials following his arrest. The District Attorney’s Office filed four separate charges for each of the two incidents in which Pamaran allegedly possessed meth for sale. Further details were not available. —Neal Putnam

Woman’s fate in balance after setting self ablaze Questions abound after a woman believed to be in her 30s inexplicably and intentionally set herself afire at Mariner’s Point on May 19. The woman, who authorities have declined to identify, is in critical condition with third-degree burns over half her body, according to investigators. Police said the incident unfolded about 6:45 p.m. when the woman doused herself with a flammable liquid and asked someone for a lighter. Refused the request, the woman — possibly a homeless woman — approached a barbecue grill and lit her arm on fire after grabbing a hot coal, police said. The victim was taken to a hospital and the case remains under investigation, police said. Her condition has not been released. Man missing after jumping from Mission Bay bridge Crews scoured the water near Mariner’s Point and Ventura Cove after a man reportedly jumped from a vehicle on the Ventura Street Bridge on Monday night and plunged into the water below. On Tuesday, dive teams from San Diego Lifeguard Services — joined by a Coast Guard helicopter and police helicopter — searched for the man who reportedly told the driver of the vehicle to stop shortly before 8 p.m. The jumper, who lifeguard officials said is a 24-year-old man from Chula Vista, apparently leapt from the car and jumped over the rail into the water. Officials said tidal surges interfered with the dive search, forcing lifeguards to begin anew on Tuesday morning. Authorities said the man was believed to have been drinking. Educator earns Middle School Coach of Year Dennis Gildehaus, a physical educator at Pacific Beach Middle School, has earned the California Coaches Association Middle School Coach of the Year honor. “Dennis is not only recognized as one of the best physical educators in San Diego, but he is recognized at the state level and even internationally,” said Julie Martels, principal at PB Middle. “He runs the intra-murals for our district, pilots numerous electronic fitness programs and new equipment so our students are always on the cutting edge, and his physical education department just finished piloting a new guide for the International Baccalaureate Organization in Switzerland, as well as training three student teachers from the University of Zurich, Switzerland and the University of Heidelberg in Germany,” she said. For more information, call (858) 273-9070, ext 2357, or email [email protected].