BRIEFLY

A Newport Beach parent found a sharp piece of glass in the sand at

Muir Beach Circle Park Tuesday.

This marks the fourth such incident in the city’s parks. Similar glass

shards were found twice in Buffalo Hills Park at the corner of Port

Margate Place and Port Charles Place on May 2 and at Cliff Drive Park on

April 27, when a police volunteer found the glass wedged between slats of

a park bench.

Barbara Foster had taken her children to the park on Muir Beach Circle

on Tuesday when she found the one-inch shard in the sand next to the

monkey bars, according to the police report.

Her husband, John Foster, said his wife reported the incident to the

police because it looked like the glass fragment was planted deliberately

in the children’s play area.

“That was the only piece of glass in the area,” he said. “It just

didn’t make sense.”

Over the last two months, razor blades were found on playground

equipment in several parks in Costa Mesa and Newport Beach. The cities’

police departments are working together on the case. Officials had said

they were not sure if the same people were involved in all of the

incidents or if they were copycat attempts.

Police have not made an arrest on the case. No one has been hurt in

any of these incidents so far.