Crime & Safety
Chaos Erupts at Local Restaurant
SHERIFF'S BLOTTER: Also, a man found sleeping in a parking lot, a Sea World bus tour gone wrong and a group of teens disrupting neighbors.
At 1:50 a.m. Sunday, Aug. 18, someone reported a disturbance in the 400 block of El Camino Real. Two men and two women were physically assaulting each other inside Taka-O Japanese Restaurant. The chaos continued when an employee reported three men pounding on the door, moving benches outsid, and urinating in the parking lot at 2:12 a.m. The rabble-rousers fled on foot before deputies arrived.
Also:
At 12:07 a.m. Sunday, Aug. 18, a caller reported a suspicious person in the 200 block of El Camino Real. A man was sleeping in a local parking lot beside two SUVs.
At 9:30 a.m. Sunday Aug. 18, a caller reported a disturbance near East Avenida Pico and the I-5 Freeway. A Sea World tour bus had pulled over as the driver and a passenger were in a verbal fight. The passenger was asked to leave the bus, but refused.
At 1:16 a.m. Monday, someone told authorities about a disturbance in the 1500 block of Avenida de Nogales. A group of teenagers was yelling in a backyard next door to the informant and disrupting neighbors.
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.
