Officer injured in tussle with man Police...

Officer injured in tussle with man

Police officers were engaged in a physical fight and one sustained

minor injuries while trying to take a man into custody who was

reportedly harassing families with small children Saturday afternoon

at Main Beach, police said.

Ronald Adrian, 44, head-butted an officer who was trying to quiet

him down after Adrian threatened at least one person and challenged

another to a fight, police said.

Police responded to a call from the children’s playground at Main

Beach at 12:30 p.m. Saturday, after Adrian had reportedly been

bothering families with children, Sgt. Darin Lenyi of the Laguna

Beach Police Department said.

One woman told police that Adrian approached her and said, “In two

minutes I can rip your eyes out of your skull,” police said. The

woman took her 2- and 4-year-old, who were playing nearby, and left

the area, police said. Another witness told police the man tried to

engage him in a fight.

Once officers were able to control Adrian, he was taken into

custody and arrested on the suspicion of battering a police officer

and challenging people to a fight, Lenyi said.

The officer who was head-butted during the arrest suffered minor

injuries, Lenyi said.

Man lost in wilderness park

It took nearly four hours for police to locate a man who was lost

in the Laguna Coast Wilderness Park on Sunday night, police said.

The man called police and said he had been hiking with a friend

when the friend left him and he got lost around 8 p.m., police said.

The man said he could see the Foothill Corridor but did not know what

trail he was on or how to get down, police said.

After hours of searching, an Orange County Sheriff’s helicopter

finally located the man using infrared technology at 11:25 p.m.,

police said. Laguna Beach lifeguards were then able to reach the man

and bring him back safely, police said.

Trash truck takes out communications lines

Periodic blink-outs were reported Monday in an area surrounding

Summit Drive as lights and computers reportedly blinked on and off

for less than a minute.

“A trash truck hit a communications line and broke it off, and the

hot line was about six feet off the ground, cutting power for about

30 seconds,” Greg Cladopulus, of the Edison Company said. The second

blink-out came when the line was de-energized to clear the problem.

Residential power came back on by itself.