IN BRIEF

-- Greg Risling

Police are looking for the culprits who defaced some of scenic Corona del

Mar State Beach over the weekend.

Beachgoers arrived Monday morning to find several walls and rocks defaced

with blue spray paint on the north end of Big Corona beach. Police

believe the graffiti was put up sometime Sunday night or early Monday

morning.

“We really don’t see any graffiti in a particular part of town,” said

Sgt. Fred Heinecke. “When we do, we try to take care of it right away.”

Although the graffiti wasn’t painted over by late Monday, the city

planned to have the work done today.

Police said the graffiti appears to be the work of gang members. An

anonymous tipster called the city’s Graffiti Hotline to inform them about

the vandalism.

No one has been arrested in connection with the crime.