Sun, Fun and Felonies
A summer sampling of one week in Orange County crime*
Three men armed with hammers and baseball bats assaulted each other on a residential street.
Several adults threw food at other customers inside a Del Taco.
A group of men tossed a dead body into a trash dumpster.
A man took off his clothes and drove away in a black Camaro.
A fight broke out in a pet store.
Two men carrying rifles walked through a public park.
A man hurled obscenities and threatened his neighbor's children for singing.
Two eighth-grade students smoked marijuana as they walked down a street.
An intoxicated female drove her convertible Mercedes in endless circles in a parking lot.
A cement mixer was stolen.
Four drunk, homeless men in the park verbally abused passersby.
Someone fired a gun at the beach.
An obese, 5-foot-4-inch man robbed a Carl's Jr.
Middle-aged neighbors fought because one leaned on the other's car.
A man walked up to a woman, said, "Good morning," and then exposed himself.
A man holding a black bag screamed at an unoccupied school building for 35 minutes.
Juveniles poured soap into a hot tub.
A man shot a neighbor's dog with a rifle.
Prosecutors said a middle school teacher was "grooming" her 14-year-old student for sex.
A man locked himself in his bedroom for three weeks in order to kill himself, emerging only to buy liquor.
The driver of a Dodge Intrepid sped through a front yard.
A customer ordered $600 worth of food at a restaurant, fled without paying and returned to complain about the food's poor taste.
A woman lay down on her apartment balcony, screamed, cried and knocked over furniture.
A man went door-to-door asking residents if they've seen Jesus.
Three teens stole a 30-pack case of beer from a store.
A drunk man hid in a lady's bushes and moaned.
Someone dumped a clothes dryer in the middle of the road at night.
Two 17-year-olds smoked marijuana inside a church.
A man with a handgun stole beer from a 7-Eleven.
Police shot a 19-year-old man with a taser after he tried to enter a vehicle already occupied by two women.
A man wearing a red bucket over his head and somehow driving a van stopped near a 12-year-old girl and said, "You're hot!"
A waitress went ballistic after her boyfriend tossed her drugs away, attacked him and was then arrested.
A 49-year-old man admitted he was drinking alcohol and arguing with his wife, but claims he wasn't drunk when he fired his .357 Magnum at a neighbor's window.
Three men fought in the street, finished, put their shirts on and then ate lunch together at Panda Express.
An illegal immigrant with five aliases was arrested for peeking into a woman's bedroom window.
A police raid found drugs in 10 middle school lockers.
A man drove his car into a wall.
An intoxicated woman walked in and out of traffic on the highway.
Someone spray painted "Why?" onto a car.
*Culled from news and police accounts during the first week of June
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