SAN DIEGO — Meet Freeway. He's a teenage mischief maker, a land-loving sea lion fishing for freedom.
And now the pinniped, who earned notoriety in January when he shut down a busy San Diego freeway a couple miles from the ocean, is back.
Last month, someone spotted him wandering up a storm drain in Logan Heights, about a half-mile from where the drain hits San Diego Harbor. A SeaWorld Rescue team plucked him from the muck April 7. It took some coaxing to catch him, SeaWorld Rescue team supervisor Jeni Smith said last week.