TUESDAY * Broadway: A battery was reported...

TUESDAY

* Broadway: A battery was reported in the 300 block at 11:05 p.m.

* Catalina Avenue: Identity theft was reported when a man told

police someone had used his name and driver’s license number to write

fraudulent checks in the 31500 block at 4:29 p.m.

* Laguna Canyon Road: A woman reported a counterfeit $10 bill was

used at a ticket booth in the 900 block at 12:11 p.m.

* Laguna Canyon Road: A man reported two amplifiers were missing

from his car when he picked it up from impound in the 1800 block at

3:01 p.m.

* Ocean Avenue: A Laguna Beach man was arrested on suspicion of

being under the influence of a controlled substance in the 200 block

at 11:47 p.m.

* Wave Street: A red Jeep Liberty was reported stolen in the 100

block at 7:55 p.m.

* Wave Street: Two men in a truck were reportedly using

flashlights to look into garages in the 200 block at 12:34 p.m.

MONDAY

* Acacia Drive and Cedar Way: A pedestrian was reportedly hit when

a teenager threw a water bottle out of a car at 6:47 p.m.

* Anita Street: A watch and a digital planner were reported stolen

out of a car in the 500 block at 6:39 p.m.

* Broadway: Several passengers reportedly harassed a bus driver in

the 300 block at 9:09 p.m.

* Hillview Drive: A brick was reported thrown through a window

overnight in the 2100 block at 7:57 a.m.

* Nyes Place: Sewage was reported dumped on the street after a

truck carrying portable toilets became stuck in the 400 block at 8:56

a.m.

* South Coast Highway and Vista del Sol: A Mission Viejo man was

arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence, possession of

marijuana and speeding after police responded to a report of a race

at 2:22 a.m.

* Sunset Avenue: A man reported his table saw was stolen in the

32000 block at 2:16 p.m.

SUNDAY

* Cozumel Court: A Harley-Davidson motorcycle was reported stolen

overnight in the 200 block at 8:47 a.m.

* Forest Avenue: A transient was arrested on suspicion of

commercial burglary in the 200 block at 12:38 p.m.

* Jasmine Street and Monterey Street: A man reported he had been

shot by a paintball gun at 2:21 p.m.

* South Coast Highway: A surveillance camera was reported stolen

in the 1000 block at 9:53 a.m.

SATURDAY

* Brooks Street: Hit-and-run was reported by a woman who told

police another driver rear-ended her vehicle and drove away in the

500 block at 7:43 p.m.

* Glenneyre Street: A woman reported someone has been trespassing

at her home in the 600 block when she is away at 9:30 a.m. She also

told police her phone bill shows charges for calls she did not make.

* Seacliff Drive: People were reported having sex on the beach in

the 31700 block at 7:28 p.m.

* Shadow Lane: Police received a report that a man wearing all

black with a hood covering his head broke into a Mercedes and ran

away in the 400 block at 5:45 a.m.

* South Coast Highway: A Dana Point man was arrested on suspicion

of driving under the influence and hit-and-run in the 2800 block at

7:20 p.m.

* South Coast Highway: A woman reported her purse was stolen out

of her room in the 800 block at 9:44 p.m.

FRIDAY

* Forest Avenue: Three men were reported yelling profanities at

passersby outside a store in the 200 block at 7:07 p.m.

* Glenneyre Street: A man was reportedly screaming at people in

the 800 block at 11:37 a.m.

* South Coast Highway: Police received a report that a woman

continuously left threatening letters to hotel managers in the 400

block at 11:46 a.m.

* Victoria Drive: A man reported his neighbor’s dog killed his cat

in the 2600 block at 10:03 p.m.

* Victory Walk: A man reported finding a used syringe at a work

site in the 1200 block at 2:19 p.m.

* The POLICE FILES are compiled and written by Andrew Edwards 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.