Man ordered to DMV after driving mishap...

Man ordered to DMV after driving mishap

Laguna Beach police ordered an 89-year-old man to report to the

Department of Motor Vehicles for a re-evaluation of his driving

skills after he nearly drove his car off the cliff at Divers Cove on

Saturday.

Phillip Perry said he hit the gas instead of the brake as he

pulled his Honda into a parking spot at 8:55 a.m. The car went

through a metal railing and stuck on a cinder block, leaving the

front end of the car hanging over the cliff, Sgt. Jason Kravetz said.

Perry and his girlfriend were able to get out of the car on their

own, with neither suffering any injuries.

“If he would have been speeding when making the turn into the

parking spot, they would have ended up on the beach,” Kravetz said.

Case of missing parking boot solved

Police arrested a Laguna Beach resident early Wednesday on

suspicion of possessing methamphetamine and a stolen parking

immobilization boot he’d allegedly removed from his car in September.

While off duty, Sgt. Jason Kravetz recognized 31-year-old Adrian

Dobbs’ convertible Chrysler Le Baron as the car that had turned up

missing after it had been booted on Sept. 17 for having six

outstanding parking tickets. When Kravetz returned to the site of the

car on Sept. 20, there was no boot and no car.

Kravetz saw a man sitting in the car in the Broadway Liquor

parking lot at about 7:30 a.m. and confronted him.

“I knocked on his window and said, ‘Where’s my boot?’” Kravetz

said. “Then he said, ‘It’s in the trunk.’”

Police recovered the boot, found a small amount of a controlled

substance on Dobbs and arrested him. He had apparently been parking

his car away from his home on Lower Cliff Drive to avoid being

caught, Kravetz said.

Police put boots on cars that have five or more outstanding

tickets. Four boots have been stolen in the last 15 years, Kravetz

said, and every one has been recovered.

Police find shotgun, shells in car

Police pulled over a 49-year-old man on suspicion of drunken

driving Oct. 10 and arrested him after finding a concealed, loaded

shotgun and armor-piercing shells in the back of his Ford Explorer.

Leroy Young, a Santa Ana resident who works as a security guard in

Huntington Beach, said he used the shotgun and shells to hunt deer,

moose and antelope. He said he had been hunting the week before and

had forgotten to take them out of the car.

“He couldn’t explain why it takes more than a week to remember to

take a shotgun out of your car,” Sgt. Jason Kravetz said.

Shells were found in different areas of the car, from the glove

compartment to the backseat floor.

Young was arrested on suspicion of carrying a concealed, loaded

weapon, armor-piercing ammo, driving under the influence of alcohol

and an outstanding warrant for reckless driving. Only the

armor-piercing ammo carried a felony charge, Kravetz said.