Police looking into possible hate crime Costa...

Police looking into possible hate crime

Costa Mesa Police are investigating telephoned threats to a beauty

academy as a hate crime.

Somebody on Thursday afternoon called the offices of the Paul

Mitchell Academy in the 2900 block of Bristol Street, Costa Mesa

Police Sgt. Marty Carver said.

The caller made disparaging comments about homosexual employees

and threatened to kill them, Carver said.

A second call was made to their location in the 1500 block of

Adams Avenue about an hour later, Carver said.

Police don’t have any suspects but are investigating the case as a

hate crime.

Confrontation leads

to arrest at ‘Rack’

A man was arrested Thursday after he tussled with security guards

at Nordstrom Rack in Costa Mesa, police said.

Huntington Beach resident Jawad Akram Nesheiwat, 25, came into the

store and attempted to open a credit card account in someone else’s

name, Costa Mesa Police Sgt. Marty Carver said.

When employees became suspicious, security guards confronted the

man, Carver said.

Nesheiwat struggled and fought with guards, and police arrested

him, Carver said.

Nesheiwat, is being held on $20,000 bail on suspicion of

commercial burglary and attempting to open a fraudulent account,

Carver said.