Crime & Safety
That Wasn't the Halloween Spirit: Pumpkins Thrown at Cars
SHERIFF'S BLOTTER: Also, a stubborn drunk, a suspicious blanket-wrapped man, and an abusive girlfriend.
At 1:19 a.m. Sunday Oct. 29, a caller phoned the sheriff’s office to report a disturbance in the 200 block of Avenida Serra. The informant claimed people were throwing pumpkins at vehicles. The caller also stated that a victim of the pumpkin-induced terror was outside yelling at the rowdy vandals.
Also:
At 6:22 a.m. Sunday Oct. 29, someone reported a drunk man in the 4100 block of Calle Bienvenido. A heavily intoxicated man was wandering around the informant’s yard. When the caller asked the man to leave, he refused.
At 9:55 a.m. Sunday Oct. 29, a caller told deputies about a suspicious person in the 600 block of Camino de Los Mares. A man wrapped in a blanket was approaching cars and asking them to roll their windows down.
At 2:20 p.m. Sunday Oct. 29, deputies received a report about a disturbance near the cross streets of North El Camino Real and Canada. The informant saw a 20-year-old woman beating and screaming at her boyfriend behind a green electrical box. No arrest was made.
These are selected reports from the San Clemente Police Dispatch Services log throughout the past few days. The calls represent what was told to a sheriff's deputy in the field by the radio dispatcher. No presumption of criminal guilt or affiliation should be drawn from the information provided.
