Street Beat
September 29 - October 5
DUI Arrests:
Broadway - 200 Block Friday - 11:29 a.m.
Dean Arthur Lauretti, 54, Laguna Beach
Also cited for possession of alcohol & marijuana in a vehicle
S. Coast Hwy - 1200 Block Saturday - 1:44 a.m.
Nelse William Shepard, 41, Laguna Beach, with a prior
Incident Reports:
Monday - September 29
Cozumel - 100 Block Warrant Arrest 10:18 a.m. Stacey Owen, 41, no fixed address, was arrested for two outstanding warrants - one with a charge of prostitution and the other with theft charges. Both warrants had $7500 bail.
Forest Avenue - 200 Block Shoplifting 3:51 p.m. The owner of a business went to the police station to report the theft of items from a Forest Avenue store.
Cliff Drive & Myrtle Street Public Intoxication 8:53 p.m. Officers responded to a disturbance call and arrested Mark Sipprelle, 45, no fixed address, for public intoxication.
Tuesday - September 30
Three Arch Bay (S. La Senda) Petty Theft 3:03 p.m. A briefcase was taken from an unlocked car overnight.
Coast Hwy & Third Avenue Vandalism, vehicle 6:32 p.m. A black Chevy was keyed.
Wednesday - October 1
Ceanothus Drive - 31200 Block Credit Card Fraud 7:25 a.m. The RP told police that when he called his credit card company to inform them that he would be making charges while out of the country, he was told that the card had been reported lost earlier in the year. A replacement card had been mailed to another OC address and $27,000 had been charged since that time.
Thursday - October 2
Catalina & Brooks Street False Personation; Felony Warrant 12:34 p.m. When an officer making a traffic stop asked the driver for ID, the driver replied that he didn't have it with him but gave the officer his name and, police said, "All of the particulars…" associated with the name. Turns out that Laguna Beach resident Norman David Russell, 45, appears to have been trying to hide the fact that he was wanted on a no bail OC Superior Court warrant with a felony charge of narcotics possession. Because the name he gave could have caused that person to be charged with a crime (the traffic offense), Russell was also charged with felony false personation with bail of $20K. After booking at the city jail, he was taken to county jail.
Alta Laguna Blvd Juveniles; Felony Marijuana Arrest 3:14 p.m. Three juvenile boys, two from San Clemente and the other from Oceanside, two aged 17 and one 15, were in a car parked illegally at the end of Alta Laguna Blvd when an officer drove by. When the officer approached the car, he smelled the distinct odor of burnt marijuana. After a search, two of the boys were issued citations for possession of under an ounce of pot and the third boy was arrested for felony possession of marijuana for sales. All were later released to their parents at the police station.
Monument Point Public Intoxication x 2 5:31 p.m. A jogger informed police that two men were passed out near the flagpole I Heisler Park. Mark Lane and Robert Shaw, both 51 with no fixed address, were arrested for public intoxication.
Friday - October 3
S. Coast Hwy - 1100 Block Counterfeit 6:29 p.m. A couple, a Hispanic female and Asian male, ordered a burrito to go from Olamendi's and paid with what turned out to be a bogus $100 bill. They separately went into Dominos and ordered pizzas and paid each time with other counterfeit $100 bills. As an officer took the reports, another officer was taking a report at Hobie Sports for the same crime and same descriptions.
S. Coast Hwy - 500 Block Grand Theft 10:51 p.m. Two cameras, valued at $1000 each, were stolen.
Glenneyre - 2200 Block Public Intoxication 10:53 p.m. Matthew Halloran Pierovich, 37, Laguna Beach, was arrested for public intoxication.
Saturday - October 4
S. Coast Hwy - 1100 Block Burglary, commercial 7:59 a.m. The door of a medical office was kicked in overnight. There were no apparent losses reported at the time.
Cliff Drive & Myrtle Street Burglary, vehicle 11:41 a.m. A window of a vehicle was broken for entry.
Crescent Bay Beach Petty Theft 12:47 p.m. A couple returned to the sand after taking a dip and discovered that their backpack containing a cell phone and clothing items had been stolen.
S. Coast Hwy - 600 Block Public Intoxication 1:45 p.m. Gualterio Montes de Oca, 37, no fixed address, was taken into custody for 647F.
Main Beach Child Annoyance 2:57 p.m. A woman approached an officer on a Coast Hwy traffic stop and said a man at the playground was acting "strange". She indicated that the man was trying to play with children while keeping his hand "down his pants". When the officer walked over to contact the man, other people told him similar stories, one of which signed a citizen's arrest for misdemeanor child annoyance. Michael Cowan, 36, was taken into custody and later transported to county jail in lieu of posting bail.
N. Coast Hwy - 1400 Block Drug Arrest; Felony Warrant + 10:47 p.m. Police received a call from guests in a motel room that there was noise in the adjacent room indicating domestic violence. When officers were on scene, they too heard what police described as "…moaning and slapping". They knocked on the door while identifying themselves. A male opened the door, let them in, and said he was alone and had been exercising. In plain sight, the officers saw cocaine. The man was arrested for the cocaine possession and then gave police a false name. When it was all sorted through, Michael John Torricelli, 52, Laguna Beach, was charged with felony drug possession and possession of paraphernalia. When his true name was checked, a felony warrant out of OC Superior Court with a charge of felony drug possession was found with $75,000 bail.
Sunday - October 5 Broadway Bus Depot Warrant Arrest 11:35 a.m. Long Beach resident Robert Neville Huling, 52, was taken into custody for a warrant for public intoxication.
