MONDAY * Beach Street and Forest Avenue:...

MONDAY

* Beach Street and Forest Avenue: Police received a report that a

purse was stolen at 12:37 p.m.

* Forest Avenue: A transient was reportedly bothering passersby at

12:17 p.m. in the 200 block.

* Hillcrest Drive: Police received a report that children were

swearing and throwing objects into trash cans at 9:51 p.m. in the 600

block.

* South Coast Highway: Police received a report that $50 in cash

was stolen from a petty cash box in a Doctor’s office at 2:15 p.m. in

the 31800 block.

SUNDAY

* Bluebird Canyon Drive: Police received a report that tools and

two gun shells were stolen from a truck at 3:57 p.m. in the 900

block.

* Cliff Drive: It was reported that a suspicious-looking blue

duffle bag was sitting by the men’s bathroom at 2:39 p.m. in the 300

block.

* Laguna Canyon Road: Police received a report that a green

Mercedes almost hit a parked vehicle at 10:05 p.m. in the 2200 block.

* Main Beach: Police received a report that a sea lion on the

beach appeared to be sick or hurt at 4:19 p.m. in the 100 block.

* South Coast Highway: Police received a report that men in front

of Jack in the Box were drunk and trying to fight at 2:30 a.m. in the

1300 block.

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

wearing a black shirt was inside a red sedan messing with the wires

and possibly trying to steal the car at 3:33 a.m. in the 30800 block.

* South Coast Highway: It was reported that a father was hitting

his child with a stick at 2:46 p.m. in the 30900 block.

SATURDAY

* Broadway: Police received a report that two men were throwing

beer bottles into the roadway at 7:08 p.m. in the 200 block.

* Broadway: It was reported that someone heard their door handle

jiggle at 9:02 p.m. in the 300 block.

* Broadway: Police received a report that two men threw something

at a bus at 2:13 p.m. in the 500 block.