Anonymous tip leads to burglary suspect Police...

Anonymous tip leads to burglary suspect

Police are investigating a suspect in a residential burglary after

finding a stolen item while responding to an unrelated call.

At 6:58 p.m. Sunday evening, Laguna resident Michael Reynolds,

after returning from a weeklong vacation, reported his house in the

200 block of Fairview Road had been burglarized. Items reported

stolen from Reynolds home were valued at about $2,600, and included a

laptop computer, champaign and credit cards.

A Chevron credit card turned up after police received an anonymous

tip that a man in a hotel in the 900 block of North Coast Highway was

having sex with a minor. When police arrived, they searched the man,

a 21-year-old Laguna Beach resident and found a legal knife and a

Chevron card identified as being stolen from the Reynolds’ residence.

No arrest was made, but the man is being investigated on suspicion of

receiving stolen property or committing the burglary.

Police did not confirm the caller’s allegation that illicit sex

had occurred.

“We don’t know if that did or did not happen,” said Sgt. Darin

Lenyi.

Carrie Reynolds, Michael’s wife, said she felt discouraged no

arrest was made after the man was found with her credit card.

“I don’t think I’m going to get my stuff back,” she said, adding,

“I still feel at risk.”

Teen reported missing twice

A local teen has been reported missing twice in one week.

At 6:50 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 20, the teen’s mother filed a missing

person’s report on her 15-year-old son, who suffers from short term

memory loss as a result of a skateboarding accident.

The teen, who did not return home the day before, after being

dropped off at Laguna Beach High School, eventually returned home,

but was reported missing again on Tuesday by his father, who lives in

Newport Beach.