Police files - Dec. 20, 2001

*Beach Boulevard and Edinger Avenue: An elderly male was reported

driving extremely slow while waving both hands in the air at 11:19 a.m.

Saturday.

*Beach Boulevard: Trespassing was reported in the 17800 block at 9:28

a.m. Thursday.

*Beach Boulevard: A blue Buick Century was reported stolen from a

parking lot in the 18300 block at 4:37 p.m. Saturday.

*Bluewater Lane: A suspicious male sitting on a resident’s porch was

reported in the 16800 block at 6:19 p.m. Friday.

*Boardwalk Drive and Algonquin Street: A mentally ill male was

reported to be living in a red vehicle at 3:50 p.m. Friday.

*Briarcliff Drive: A man either taking pictures or looking at a

woman’s home with binoculars was seen in the 6200 block at 12:04 p.m.

Friday.

*Brookhurst Street and Hamilton Avenue: An unknown person shot a Beebe

and hit a woman’s foot at 7:09 p.m. Thursday.

*Brookhurst Street and Hamilton Avenue: A suspicious man claiming to

be a fireman collecting money for the New York relief fund was seen at

10:34 a.m. Sunday.

*California Street: Someone threw a corrosive liquid onto a parked car

in the 1200 block at 11:18 p.m. Thursday.

*Dairyview Circle: Three males were seen smoking marijuana in the

17300 block at 8:03 p.m. Sunday.

*Edinger Avenue: A male transient wearing dirty clothes was seen

sleeping in front of a business in the 7200 block at 6:40 p.m. Saturday.

*Elmwood Lane: A woman returned home to find her house ransacked in

the 18700 block at 12:47 p.m. Friday.

*Heil Avenue: Two trespassers were seen in a resident’s backyard in

the 4800 block at 12:12 a.m. Sunday.

*Heil Avenue: People were offering to sell used compact disc players

from a blue Honda in the 4800 block at 3:49 p.m. Saturday.

*Jon Day Drive: A resident came home to find his front door open in

the 10000 block at 10:20 p.m. Sunday.

*Main Street: A customer was hit by a Taco Bell sauce packet in the

100 block at 7:19 p.m. Friday.

*Mandrell Drive: Four males in the rear alley were seen smoking

marijuana in the 7700 block at 3:10 p.m. Thursday.

*Pacific Coast Highway and Brookhurst Street: A transient set up a

tent and was camping in the Talbert Marsh at 10:30 a.m. Sunday.

*Pacific Coast Highway: A male transient in his 60s was seen pulling

his pants down while inside a store in the 17100 block at 9:23 p.m.

Saturday.

*Pacific Coast Highway: A 65-year-old male was seen scaring people

near a walkway in the 16400 block at 10:45 a.m. Thursday.

*Pacific Coast Highway: Two males were loitering, soliciting and

harassing employees in the 300 block at 5:21 p.m. Thursday.

*Palisade Drive: Golf clubs and a Sony PlayStation were reported

missing from a garage in the 6000 block at 10:29 a.m. Sunday.

*Portland Avenue: A 1992 Lexus was vandalized in the 200 block at 9:02

a.m. Sunday.

*Queens Lane: Four juveniles were seen kicking down a fence in the

17400 block at 4:37 p.m. Friday.

*Regina Circle: A child threw a rock through an apartment’s front

window at 16600 block at 3:13 p.m. Sunday.

*Reilly Drive: A white Toyota pickup gardening truck was reported

stolen from the 8200 block at 11:06 a.m. Thursday.

*Slater Avenue: A man reported that day laborers outside his apartment

were drinking beer, urinating on his property and talking inappropriately

in the 7800 block at 7:07 p.m. Friday.

*Warner Avenue: A male wearing a tank top and blue jeans, 5-feet-9

with a stalky build refused to leave a store in the 7100 block at 7:16

p.m. Friday.