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Wednesday, Dec. 14 Battery. 600 Park Ave. 3:42 p.m. Ehadaie Babak, 37, of Laguna, was arrested for suspicion of battery for assaulting a female Uber driver after she asked him to exit the vehicle. The driver reported she was hit in the face and treated for a contusion over her...

Monday, Dec. 5 Vandalism. 900 block of Quivera St. 9:42 a.m. A homeowner who had obtained estimates for demolition work returned after a week’s absence to find four exterior walls demolished even though she had yet to hire anyone. Burglary. 1500 block of Skyline Dr. 11:34 a.m....

Monday, Nov. 28 Vandalism. 1300 block of Skyline Dr. 7:33 a.m. A neighbor is suspected in pruning five trees on a property and causing an estimated $20,000 in damage. Tuesday, Nov. 29 Brandishing weapon. 3:53 p.m. Camel Point. Michael Cowan, 45, identified as a Laguna Beach...

Monday, Nov. 28 Vandalism. 1300 block of Skyline Dr. 7:33 a.m. A neighbor is suspected in pruning five trees on a property and causing an estimated $20,000 in damage. Tuesday, Nov. 29 Brandishing weapon. 3:53 p.m. Camel Point. Michael Cowan, 45, identified as a Laguna Beach...

Police are investigating who might be responsible for inflicting deep cuts in the base of six mature eucalyptus trees in the previous week. Damage done to five trees on the Montage resort property was found early Monday, Nov. 21, and another discovered Saturday, Nov. 26, at the...

Fire Department arson investigators are looking to determine the cause of a 6:15 p.m. fire that erupted near the Dog Park and led to the evacuation of the city’s 45-person overnight homeless shelter and the closure of Laguna Canyon Road for several hours Friday, Nov. 18,...

Seventeen firefighters extinguished a blaze that caused nearly $400,000 in damage to two homes on Wildwood Drive Saturday, Nov. 12. While the blaze broke out three short blocks away from the city’s South Laguna fire station, that engine company had been dispatched to another call...

Two weeks after a masked gunman known as “the faceless bandit” held up banks in Laguna Beach and Seal Beach, a 36-year-old state prison parolee suspected in the heists was arrested by Ventura police, authorities said Tuesday, Nov. 15. Kyle Jason Korte, 36, of Beverly Hills, was...

Laguna Beach police say they arrested an Uber driver for suspicion of raping a customer he was driving home to Laguna Beach at 2:31 a.m. from Huntington Beach on Saturday, Nov. 5, The driver fled the scene of the assault, which took place near the customer’s home, police Sgt. Tim...

Laguna Beach police say they arrested an Uber driver for suspicion of raping a customer he was driving home to Laguna Beach at 2:31 a.m. from Huntington Beach on Saturday, Nov. 5, The driver fled the scene of the assault, which took place near the customer’s home, police Sgt. Tim...

Tuesday, Nov. 1 Grand theft. Coast Hwy. 2:42 p.m. $1,300 worth of tools vanished from a vehicle. Stolen vehicle. 31100 block of Coast Hwy. 1:47 p.m. Police arrested Clavel Rosita Altamirano, 19, San Diego, for suspicion of auto theft. Thursday, Nov. 3 Citizen. 1200 block of S....

Police suspect the same bandit in a pair of bank heists that occurred in Laguna Beach and Seal Beach last week. The bank robbery is the first in Laguna Beach since a bandit committed a similar crime at Wells Fargo in 2014, police said. A man with a silver revolver wearing a ski...

Police suspect the same bandit in a pair of bank heists Thursday, Oct. 27. A man with a silver revolver type handgun wearing a mask and dark gloves approached a Union Bank teller in Laguna Beach and demanded money about 3 p.m., Sgt. Tim Kleiser said Friday. After the robber...

Laguna Beach police arrested a 16-year-old male from Huntington Park for suspicion of auto theft Tuesday, Oct. 25. A 15-year-old girl and an infant child accompanied the driver in the car, Sgt. Tim Kleiser confirmed. Police pulled  the car over near Beach and Broadway streets...

A Playa Del Rey man allegedly caused $5,700 worth of damage in a four-block long vandalism rampage in Laguna Beach during the pre-dawn hours of Wednesday, Oct. 13, police said. Windows in six sites, from shops to hotels to cars located between the 1100 and 1500 block of Coast...