Injured dog found under building An injured...

Injured dog found under building

An injured dog was reportedly abandoned in a cage underneath an

apartment building at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday in the 100 block of Cliff

Drive, police said.

David McVicker, the apartment manager at 100 Cliff Drive, said he

heard a car pull into the parking area beneath the building and heard

the car doors open and shut. After several minutes, a blond-haired

woman drove off in a red four-door BMW, McVicker said.

Immediately after the car left, a dog could be heard barking from

the same area where the car had been parked, McVicker said. When he

went down to see what the dog was barking at, McVicker said he found

a small dog cage covered with a towel. McVicker lifted the towel and

saw a small dog he described as a poodle, shaking and standing in

feces, he said.

“I couldn’t stand seeing the dog in there,” McVicker said.

After he called the police, McVicker took the dog out of the cage

to clean it off, he said. When the dog started walking, he could see

that the dog was leaving bloody footprints., McVicker said.

“It was pretty disgusting,” McVicker said.

Animal services arrived at the scene and took the dog away,

McVicker said. The dog is being treated at the local animal

hospital, police said.

Police respond to false alarm

Laguna Beach police closed down the northbound lane of Pacific

Coast Highway at Diamond Street after they responded to call that

someone had been shot at 11:06 a.m. Friday in the 200 block of

Diamond.

A man reported to a Laguna Beach fire station that a man had been

shot and the man who shot him had barricaded himself in a nearby

house, police said. Due to the nature of the call and the potential

danger of the situation, police closed down northbound Pacific Coast

Highway and both lanes of Diamond Street, said Sgt. Darin Lenyi, of

the Laguna Beach Police Department.

When police arrived on the scene they found no one who had been

shot, police said. The man who said he had been shot was arrested on

suspicion of public intoxication and possession of drug

paraphernalia, police said. Police located the man who was inside the

house and found that he was not involved in the incident, Lenyi said.