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.