TUESDAY * Pearl Street Beach: Two males...

TUESDAY

* Pearl Street Beach: Two males and two females were reported

smoking marijuana on the beach with a large glass tube at around

noon. One of the four was cited for possessing less than an ounce of

marijuana, and the glass tube was confiscated.

* South Coast Highway: Police received a call that more than

$4,000 worth of jewelry had been stolen from a visitor’s motel room

at around 10 a.m. There was no apparent forced entry.

MONDAY

* North Coast Highway: Police arrested a 52-year-old resident on

suspicion of public intoxication when two waste management workers

complained that she was screaming and blocking entrance to their

truck at around 3 p.m.

SUNDAY

* Jasmine Street: Police temporarily seized several firearms after

a resident reported that her boyfriend had bitten her while they were

having a fight in the car. Police searched their house and

confiscated the guns until the situation “cooled off,” Sgt. Jason

Kravetz said.

* Ocean Way: A resident reported at 7:31 p.m. that partygoers next

door were flicking lighted cigarette butts from their roof toward his

house, burning several holes in his patio cover. He said he also

found condoms and bottle caps.

SATURDAY

* Oak Street: Police arrested a man on a $15,000 warrant for

driving with a suspended license after receiving a call at 4:18 p.m.

that a man riding a bicycle was urinating on the caller’s lawn.

* Alta Laguna Boulevard: The fire department reported that bees

had taken up residence in the fire house at 1:42 p.m. Police notified

a beekeeper, who removed them.

* Quivera Street: A resident reported at 10:10 a.m. that a very

big spider was in her house. Police found a tarantula, and took it

into custody.

* Aster Street: Police arrested a 31-year-old resident under

suspicion of driving under the influence and driving with a suspended

license after pulling him over twice in one day. The first time they

pulled him over in his orange Hummer, the driver was given a ticket

for driving with a suspended license. While making another traffic

stop in the 400 block, the same officer saw the suspect stagger into

his car and drive off. The officer pulled him over again and arrested

him at 3:12 a.m.

MAY 30

* Temple Hills Drive: A truck towing a trailer full of tar smashed

into a resident’s wall while driving downhill at 2:56 p.m. The driver

said his brakes stopped working, but police said they found no

evidence of that.

* Bluebird Canyon Drive: A resident reported at 12:08 p.m. that

someone above his house had been driving golf balls onto his property

for six to eight weeks, some of which had come dangerously close to

striking him. He said he had a few ideas of who was doing it, and

that he felt it might be intentional.

* Cliff Drive: Police responded to a domestic dispute at 8:28 a.m.

A man claimed his ex-wife ripped off his glasses, threw picture

frames at him and an 18-inch piece of firewood at his car after

seeing that he was with another woman. The victim had gone to his

ex-wife’s house to pick up their 8-year-old daughter. He said his

ex-wife, to whom he had been married for 10 years, lost it upon

seeing a woman in his passenger seat.

* The Police Log is compiled and written by Mike Swanson from oral

and written reports from the Laguna Beach Police Department and other

sources. Not all police activity is included. Arrests indicate

suspicion of violations, not charges filed nor the results of court

action unless noted.