Former federal prosecutor, Del Mar council member dies. ‘Justice was the word that defined her.’

Former federal prosecutor, Del Mar council member dies. ‘Justice was the word that defined her.’

Gay Hugo-Martinez, a former federal prosecutor who served as a Del Mar City Council member at the same time she was trying a former Del Mar mayor in a high-profile Ponzi case, has died. She was 82. Hugo-Martinez was an assistant U.S. attorney in San Diego from 1984 to 2000, served from 1988 to 1992 on the Del Mar council and in 1997 helped found the Sandpiper, a community journal in Del Mar. She served as board president of the San Diego Chamber…