Crime & Safety
Half-Dressed Teens and a Suspicious Guitarist
Plus: a strange van full of strange people, a missing shrub and other calls from Aliso Viejo to the Orange County Sheriff's Department, Oct. 12-16.
Other highlights from the Orange County Sheriff’s Department blotter:
Reckless driving. 6:09 p.m. Tuesday. Pacific Park Drive and Heather Ridge Road.
Camry hijinks. 4:41 p.m. Tuesday. 0 block Groveside Drive. A caller asked deputies to check for two men in their 20s who were riding in a gold Toyota Camry and possibly using drugs.
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Car vs. hands. 7:22 a.m. Cape Victoria and Sanborn. Deputies and emergency personnel responded to reports that a black BMW hit the hands of a crosswalk aide.
MIA plant. 10:04 p.m. Monday. 0 block of Enterprise. A resident said someone was pounding on her door. She then discovered a plant was missing and dirt was spread all over.
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Suspicious guitarist. 8:39 a.m. Monday. Deerhurst and Pacific Park Drive. A caller asked deputies to check for a man playing guitar behind a brown Chevrolet Suburban and stopping female passersby to talk.
One-man lynch mob? 8:50 p.m. Sunday. 26900 block La Paz Road. A caller said a bearded man was walking with a rope in his hand after sitting inside a white vehicle for several hours.
Suspicious biker. 12:02 p.m. Sunday. 26700 block Aliso Creek Road. A caller reported a motorcylist racing a car behind a business area.
A glut of strangeness. 4:18 p.m. Saturday. Pacific Park Drive and La Paz Road. A caller reported a strange van occupied by strange-looking people, one of whom was wearing a costume and asking for donations.
Bird hunters. 7:20 a.m. Saturday. Windsong and Aliso Creek Road. A caller asked deputies to check for four males carrying rifles to possibly hunt birds.
Half-dressed or half-naked? 9:36 p.m. Friday. Pacific Park Drive and Canyon Vistas. A caller asked deputies to check for a black Chevrolet Suburban with a group of half-dressed teenagers hanging out and blasting music behind nearby office buildings.
Sharp pointy teen. 5:03 p.m. Friday. 0 block of Cloudcrest. A caller said a 15-year-old pulled a knife on her 13-year-old child at a park earlier in the day.
Deputies and emergency personnel responded to reports that a black BMW hit the hands of a crosswalk aide.
The incident happened around 7:22 a.m. Tuesday, near the intersection of Cape Victoria and Sanborn
