Crime & Safety
A Thanksgiving Cat Killing?
SHERIFF'S BLOTTER: Also, an man gets verbal with employees, a group of teens celebrates the end of fall by throwing pumpkins, and someone didn't make it home from Thanksgiving.
At 2:12 a.m. Thursday Nov. 28, a worried caller told deputies about a disturbance in the 200 block of Avenida Palizada. The caller explained two men were running around screaming they had just killed a cat.
Also:
At 9:37 a.m. Wednesday Nov. 27, someone reported a disturbance in the 900 block of Avenida Pico. The caller said a 30-year-old man was being verbally aggressive toward employees of a local business. The angry man then walked out of the building towards a local Walmart.
At 4:28 p.m. Wednesday Nov. 27, deputies received a report of a disturbance in the 600 block of Calle Vincente. A group of teens was throwing pumpkins and trash down a hillside.
At 3:38 a.m. Thursday Nov. 28, deputies stopped a vehicle for reckless driving near the cross streets of West Canada and El Camino Real. They discovered the man was drunk and arrested him. The 22-year-old has since been released from jail.
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.
