Police files - Aug. 9, 2000
COSTA MESA
* West Baker Street: Someone smashed a car window in the 700 block and
stole a bank deposit bag containing $1,100 between 5:40 and 5:45 p.m.
Thursday.
* Bristol Street: A woman probably learned a lesson after a shopping
bag filled with $750 worth of clothing and jewelry was stolen while she
left it unattended at a cash register at Nordstrom in the 3000 block
between 7:15 and 7:30 p.m. Friday.
* Bristol Street: A clothes-hungry thief made off with $6,372 worth of
women’s jackets, pants and skirts from high-end retailer Bisou Bisou at
South Coast Plaza in the 3000 block between 2 and 5 p.m. Saturday.
* Bristol Street: Two men stole $25 from a South Coast Plaza employee
while he was using a pay telephone near Sears in the 3000 block at 9 p.m.
Saturday.
* Mission Drive: Evidently the Fourth of July wasn’t enough for one
pyromaniac, who blackened the earth in the 900 block with an explosive
device at 4:25 p.m. Friday.
* Shalimar Drive: The notion of working and saving money to buy
something apparently didn’t occur to the thief who stole a $350 bicycle
in the 700 block between 8:30 and 10:30 p.m. Thursday.
* West 19th Street: Dancing at the Lion’s Den all night wasn’t
stimulating enough for an unidentified person, who punched a cab driver
in the face in the 700 block at 12:45 a.m. Saturday. The would-be
customer apparently was miffed at being expected to pay the $1.90
starting fare.
NEWPORT BEACH
* Bison Avenue: A preoccupied customer at the Chevron gas station in
the 1000 block left behind a $5 wallet between 9:30 and 10:15 p.m.
Friday.
* Harbor Island: Someone ransacked a car in the 10 block between Saturday and Sunday, getting away with $5 from the glove box and ash
tray.
* Newport Center Drive: Someone stole a license plate from the back of
a car in the 600 block at 10:30 a.m. Thursday.
* Newport Boulevard: A customer at Woody’s Wharf in the 2000 block may
have been having a good time until realizing that a flip-top cellular
phone valued at $430 was missing between 10 and 11:15 p.m. Saturday.
* Scholz Plaza: Someone with an eye for trendy merchandise stole a
pair of tortoise-shell sunglasses and a $250 garage door opener from a
car in the 100 block between Sunday and Monday.
* Sherington Place: Someone dented the top of a car in the 1000 block
between Sunday and Monday, jumping up and down on it until the roof caved
in, causing $1,000 in damage.
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