TUESDAY * Laguna Canyon Road: Police arrested...

TUESDAY

* Laguna Canyon Road: Police arrested a 35-year-old Laguna Hills

resident after he was reported having followed a 19-year-old for

three blocks and grabbed her breasts. The victim was able to escape

to her home in the 2600 block at 9:17 p.m. and called police. Police

detained the suspect, who was positively identified by the victim. He

also had an outstanding warrant for kidnapping.

* Carmel Court: A resident called police at 5:48 p.m. saying

another resident was making terrorist threats over the phone. The

victim told police the caller warned him that he owned a handgun, and

then said, “It’s on.” Police are investigating.

* Alta Vista: A resident said he saw a coyote with a cat in its

mouth across the street from his house in the 3100 block late Monday

and asked that his sighting be documented to encourage neighbors to

be on the lookout for more coyotes. He reported the incident at 2:08

p.m.

* Divers Cove: Police found an 18-year-old Phoenix resident

wandering the streets in the 600 block at 4:10 a.m. She said she

didn’t know where she was staying and was arrested for being drunk in

public.

MONDAY

* South Coast Highway: A person in the 700 block reported at 8:02

p.m. that a transient was passed out on a couch in the alley and

feared a car might hit the man. Police arrested the Costa Mesa

resident for being drunk in public and contacted Municipal Services’

to pick up the couch.

* Cypress Drive: A resident in the 200 block called police at 7:22

p.m. saying her neighbor had stolen her mail Saturday and again on

Monday. She added that he’d used her bathroom with her consent. She

said she’d had ongoing problems with her neighbor.

* Del Mar Avenue: A resident in the 1700 block told police at 2:49

p.m. that someone with access to her home had stolen an $8,000 watch.

She said she noticed the watch missing on July 25. Police are

investigating.

* South Coast Highway: Police questioned a woman they believed had

taken three credit card checks from the trash and charged more than

$5,000. Police didn’t have enough evidence to arrest the woman, but

are investigating her.

* South Coast Highway: Two co-workers at a business in the 1400

block, who police said had a history of problems, had a dispute in

which one accused the other of putting bleach in her water. The

accuser reported at 9:31 a.m. that a water bottle was placed in her

vicinity that was murky and diluted, and felt her co-worker was

trying to poison her. The other woman denied the claim, and police

didn’t find any evidence of malicious intent.

SUNDAY

* Glenneyre Street: A resident in the 2200 block allegedly bit her

husband of 13 years on the upper arm at around 9 p.m. The victim said

his wife bit him after a long argument. Police made no arrests.

* Cliff Drive: Police received a call from a trolley driver at

7:42 p.m. saying five to 10 people had thrown beer cans at the back

of the trolley, striking its windshield. Police saw no suspects in

the area of the 300 block.

* Laguna Canyon Road: Police received a call that $530 worth of

seascape tile paintings had been stolen from a booth at the Sawdust

Festival at around 2:50 p.m.

* South Coast Highway: A resident reported his friend visiting

from Iceland missing at 10:48 a.m. He told an officer his friend had

been missing for about two hours at around 3 a.m. and the officer

told him to report it to police in the morning if he was still gone.

* Noria Street: A resident reported at 11:47 a.m. that a skunk was

on her front porch in the 1000 block that looked like it was dying.

SATURDAY

* Crescent Bay Beach: Police arrested an 18-year-old Laguna Hills

resident for possession of Vicodin without a prescription and cited

two minors for possession of alcohol at around 11 p.m. Police had

responded to a report that kids were drinking on the beach.

* Broadway: Police received a call at 11:06 a.m. of possible lewd

conduct in the men’s bathroom from a passerby who saw two men enter

one stall. Police interviewed the reporting party, but found no lewd

conduct and made no arrests.

* Cliff Drive: Police arrested one man and cited another for lewd

conduct at Heisler Park at around 2:30 a.m. A 67-year-old Dana Point

resident was arrested for performing oral sex upon a 41-year-old

Laguna Beach resident. Police said it was the second time in two

weeks the 67-year-old had been caught at Heisler Park doing the same

thing.

JULY 25

* Fisherman’s Cove: A Lake Forest resident was cited for trying to

remove sealife from the area at 5:30 p.m.

* Mar Vista Drive: A resident admitted she purposely drove her car

through a garage in the 31000 block because she believed it was a

meth lab. Police arrested the 49-year-old on suspicion of felony

vandalism and resisting arrest. Police found no evidence of the

garage’s use as a meth lab.

JULY 24

* Bern Drive: Police arrested a resident in the 3100 block on

suspicion of willful cruelty to a child when he allegedly lifted his

17-year-old daughter by the throat and threw her. The suspect’s wife

said her 14-year-old son told her his dad had been drinking and was

afraid he’d hurt somebody. He reportedly choked his daughter when she

told him to leave her room.

* South Coast Highway: Police arrested a 31-year-old Irvine

resident for unauthorized use of another’s credit cards, fraudulently

obtaining another’s credit cards and identity theft in the 30000

block at around 2 p.m. The suspect was taken to Orange County Jail

and held on $30,000 bail.

* 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.