WEDNESDAY * South Coast Highway: A resident...

WEDNESDAY

* South Coast Highway: A resident in the 31000 called police at

3:25 a.m. after swallowing two mouthfuls of hydrogen peroxide,

thinking it was water. Police connected her to poison control, who

said she had nothing to worry about.

TUESDAY

* Ninth Avenue: A resident in the 31000 block reported at 8:12

p.m. that his $2,500 bike was stolen from his closed garage some time

in the morning while he worked.

* Ocean Way: A resident in the 1900 block told police at 4:21 p.m.

that a mail carrier had been harassing her dogs. She also asked for

an animal services officer.

* Bonn Drive: A resident in the 3000 block told police that a

large rattlesnake was in the house at 4:18 p.m.

* Forest Avenue: Police got a call at 2:16 p.m. that a man 50 or

60 years old had been playing his saxophone for the last hour at the

corner of South Coast Highway and Forest Avenue.

MONDAY

* Shaw’s Cove: Police arrested a 46-year-old Hemet resident on

suspicion of being drunk in public after receiving a call that a

woman was out on the rocks at Shaw’s Cove obviously drunk at 4:28

p.m. The caller was right, police said.

* South Coast Highway: Police arrested a 61-year-old Dana Point

resident on suspicion of drunken driving after a call at 10:35 p.m.

that he’d almost sideswiped some cars at South Coast Highway and Nyes

Place.

SUNDAY

* Temple Terrace: A resident in the 1200 block wanted some advice

from police after having dislodged a bay dove from its nest at 1:06

p.m.

* Cozumel Drive: Police arrested a man on suspicion of possessing

less than an ounce of marijuana and of being under the influence of

narcotics after finding him on the roof of a building lying in a

fetal position with his eyes wide open in the 100 block at around 3

a.m. Officers had responded to a report that a suspicious person was

smashing windows.

SATURDAY

* Main Beach: Someone reported that a man was trying to lure

children into a fort he had built on Main Beach at 5:18 p.m. Police

found neither a lurer nor a fort.

* Laguna Canyon Road: Police received a call at 4:10 p.m. that a

pit bull puppy kept running across the street near the 900 block,

causing several drivers to slam on their brakes.

* South Coast Highway: A resident called police from the 400 block

at 11:10 a.m. because a girl 14 to 16 years old was selling cookies

without a permit.

AUG. 22

* Monterey Street: A resident in the 31000 block said a purple

hearse with a coffin in the back was parked in front of her house at

4:16 p.m. She said she wanted it moved if possible because some

teenagers were coming over soon who shouldn’t see it. She said she

believed the hearse belonged to a “hippie” who owned a head shop.

* Glenneyre Street: An employee at an insurance company in the

1100 block said an injured squirrel was in his office at 9:49 a.m.

Animal services couldn’t catch the squirrel, so officers called

Critter Catchers to deal with it.

AUG. 21

* Brooks Street: Police arrested a 32-year-old Santa Margarita

resident on suspicion of drunken driving in a motor home. She was

reportedly swerving. An officer responded to the corner of South

Coast Highway and Nyes Place after a call from a cell phone reporting

a possible drunken driver. The woman, who was talking on a cell

phone, pulled over without waiting for the officer to flash his

lights. When the officer knocked on her window, the woman jumped and

closed the drapes. Police had to enter the motor-home forcibly.

AUG. 20

* South Coast Highway: An employee at a Chevron station called

police saying that a woman was repeatedly yelling at him about the

price of gas. He said she might be drunk. Police couldn’t find the

woman.

* 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.