TUESDAY * Anita Street Beach: A resident...

TUESDAY

* Anita Street Beach: A resident said his red Victoria skimboard

was stolen from the ice plant he’d stored it in while surfing off the

1000 block at around 6 p.m. The victim said the skimboard is worth

$310.

* Bluff Drive: Police reported to the 31000 block after receiving

a call that a resident’s fireplace was still smoking after having put

it out at 9:26 p.m. Police and firefighters deemed there was no

danger.

* Cliff Drive: A resident in the 1200 block reported at 6:49 p.m.

that 10 to 12 kids in two or three cars were playing loud rap music

by his home. He said they didn’t appear to belong there. The cars

were gone when police arrived at 7:01 p.m.

* South Coast Highway: A resident in the 30000 block reported that

a man had just called her saying she had won the Canadian lottery and

needed to send him a check for $2,450. She told police she only

wanted the call documented for now, and didn’t want to press charges.

MONDAY

* Forest Avenue: A Downtown business owner reported to police at

4:10 p.m. that he’d been getting unwanted mail because of unhappy

customers.

* Park Avenue: Police filed a juvenile report after a student at

Thurston Middle School was caught with marijuana and a pipe at 1:08

p.m. An officer arrived at Thurston and waited with the student until

his parents arrived.

SUNDAY

* Club Drive: A resident called police saying he suspected six

males playing tennis were drunk on the court and thought they might

be drinking at 11:13 p.m. The caller was apparently unhappy that they

were playing 13 minutes after the courts were supposed to close.

* Mountain View Drive: A resident in the 3000 block said his red

Jaguar had been egged for the fourth time, and this time he wanted a

malicious mischief report filed.

* Calliope Street: Police arrested a Laguna Beach resident on

suspicion of drunken driving and hit-and-run after he allegedly hit a

van on Bluebird Canyon Drive, then a tree and a mailbox at the corner

of Calliope and Carolina streets with his 1993 Isuzu at 3:38 a.m.

* Catalina Street: The mother of a 14-year-old called police and

wanted her son charged with possession of marijuana after she said he

brought it into her house at 10:59 p.m. Police took him into the

station at 11:15 p.m., and his parents picked him up 10 minutes

later.

SATURDAY

* North Coast Highway, Broadway, Glenneyre Street, Ocean Avenue,

Regatta Road, Cliff Drive:

Residents on five streets reported swarms of bees in the area,

with one call on Cliff Drive of a bee sting. The concentration of

bees on Ocean Avenue was so great that pedestrians weren’t allowed to

walk on a section of the 200 block until beekeepers handled the

swarm. The police department recommends residents call a beekeeper,

not the police, in case of a swarm or hive sighting.

JUNE 13

* South Coast Highway: All police units responded to a call of an

overturned vehicle in the 600 block at 8:12 p.m. A woman driving a

1994 Ford Ranger, turning left onto Legion Street on a yellow light,

was reportedly broadsided by a BMW also apparently trying to beat the

light while heading north. The driver of the Ford was taken to South

Coast Medical Center, but sustained no significant injuries.

Northbound traffic was reduced to one lane until both cars were

towed. Police weren’t able to determine who was at fault in the

accident.

* Cozumel Court: Police received a call of verbal threats in an

apartment building in the 200 block at 8:41 p.m. The caller said her

upstairs neighbor was yelling continuously, so her male friend went

upstairs and asked him to “chill out.” The neighbor then reportedly

told him that he had a baseball bat and to never come to his door

again. All units were tied up with the overturned vehicle on South

Coast Highway, so they had to delay slightly in sending someone out.

All parties were contacted at 9:14 p.m. and everything was worked out

without arrests.

* The POLICE LOG is compiled and written by Mike Swanson from oral

and written reports from the Laguna Beach Police Department and other

sources. Not all police activity is included. Arrests indicate

suspicion of violations, not charges filed nor the results of court

action unless noted.