Sailor dies of a heart attack during...

Sailor dies of a heart attack during regatta

A 63-year-old man died Monday night after he had a heart attack on

his sailboat during a regatta in Newport Harbor.

Leo Vincent Collin, of Huntington Beach, had a heart attack at the

midway point of an American Legion Yacht Club race, office manager

Linda Christensen said. He died later at Hoag Memorial Hospital

Presbyterian.

Firefighters got a call a little before 7 p.m. that a man on a

boat was complaining of chest pains, said Sgt. David Ginther with the

Orange County Sheriff’s Department Harbor Patrol. The Harbor 20

sailboat, called “Poacher,” was in the main channel near Collins

Island.

Both agencies responded to the boat, which had Collin and a second

person on board. A Harbor Patrol boat took him to a nearby dock and

paramedics took him to the hospital, Ginther said.

Collin was pronounced dead at 7:35 p.m., according to the Orange

County Coroner’s Office. He has a sister who lives in Redwood City.

Collin was a member of the club for about six years, Christiansen

said. She described him as “a nice guy” who looked younger than his

63 years.

“He was feisty,” she said.

It was the first race of the season for the club.

Juvenile arrested in high school parking lot

Costa Mesa police officers who were arresting a boy on suspicion

of marijuana possession last week at Costa Mesa High School also

found guns in his car’s trunk.

An officer responding to a call at 9:20 a.m. on April 29 of a

suspicious juvenile at the high school found the drugs on the boy,

Lt. John FitzPatrick said. A search of his vehicle in the school’s

parking lot turned up a rifle, shotgun and .44 Magnum revolver in his

trunk.

Police took the boy, whose name is being withheld because he is a

minor, into custody.

He told officers that the guns belong to his father and they were

in his trunk because he is moving, Fitzpatrick said. The boy’s story

checked out and he is not facing weapons charges.

The juvenile, recently expelled from Estancia High School, was

booked on charges of drug possession and driving without a license,

FitzPatrick said.