By Tad Heitmann, Special to the Independent Laguna Beach High School’s Park Avenue Players have forged their own intense interpretation of Arthur Miller’s classic American cautionary tale, “The Crucible,” which opens a seven-performance run on Friday, May 24, at 7:30 p.m. Featuring an entirely original prologue depicting the forbidden events that unleash the subsequent hysteria, [...]
Five hours after police released the identity of a suspect in a sexual assault in April, the 26-year-old man turned himself in to the Laguna Beach Police Department. Earlier in the week, police obtained a warrant for the arrest of Babak Azadgilani, also known as “Bobby”, of Laguna Niguel, but he had evaded custody at [...]
Police investigators are seeking the public’s assistance in locating a 26-year-old man suspected in a sexual assault of a Laguna Beach woman in April. Earlier this week, police obtained a warrant for the arrest of Babak Azadgilani, also known as “Bobby”, of Laguna Niguel, said Capt. Jason Kravetz in a statement. “Attempts to arrest him [...]
A throng of people with quarts of paint doused a boarded-up, ocean-front Laguna Beach structure with balloon-like messages, wall-length streaks and artistic giant-sized lettering last Saturday. The “graffitiers last hurrah,” was the description of Morris Skenderian, the property’s architectural advisor hired by owner Gary Groves to demolish the deteriorating former boathouse at the south end [...]
Fearing more traffic congestion and heart-stopping driving encounters with downhill skateboarders, Arch Beach Heights residents voiced overwhelming opposition to the addition of a skateboard park atop one of Laguna Beach’s steepest inclines despite testimonials from one of the best-known park builders, the Tony Hawk Foundation. After 90 minutes of comment from about 150 people, City [...]
An assault involving three men escalated into a struggle with Laguna Beach police, who ultimately deployed a taser twice to subdue the younger combative suspect in the 300 block of Cozumel around 1:15 a.m. Friday, May 10, police said. Police ultimately arrested Laguna Beach resident Sergio Gabriel Borgognone, 51, for allegedly resisting arrest and his [...]
Former professional surfer and groundbreaking beachwear designer Michael Elliot Tomson was arrested for suspicion of felony drug charges after causing a two-car traffic collision in Laguna Beach on Monday, April 29, police said. A 65-year-old woman suffered injuries as a result of the 9:17 a.m. rear-end collision, which led to the temporary closure of Glenneyre [...]
Mission Hospital will seek permission of state Public Health Department regulators to allow admitted patients to recover in under-used private rooms of the intensive care unit in the Laguna Beach campus. City officials who last week learned of the initiative initially feared that hospital administrators intended to close the unit altogether, which would also trigger [...]
Two men who are reputed members of a notorious South Los Angeles street gang were arrested for suspicion of armed robbery in the pistol-whipping last October of occupants of a Laguna Beach home, Laguna Beach police announced Tuesday. Tyrone Lamont Beasley, 21, was arrested at a South Los Angeles home, while Jyvontaye Demetric Harris, 20, [...]
The death of a 51-year-old diver, who was unresponsive when pulled from the ocean at a popular dive spot in Laguna Beach, remains under investigation, according to the county coroner. An autopsy was performed on the body of Mark Gibbs, of Tustin, but no ruling was made on the cause of death pending the outcome [...]
Mission Hospital made an informal inquiry of state Health Department regulators about seeking permission to change the sort of patients that could make use of its underused 10-bed intensive care unit at the Laguna Beach campus, officials confirmed on Friday. City officials who learned of the initiative initially feared that hospital administrators intended to close [...]
Accident investigators expect details recorded in the black box of a Tesla involved in a double fatality earlier this month on Laguna Canyon Road will tell them if the driver was racing. A search warrant will be required to extract information from the event data recorder known as a black box from the Tesla, which [...]
Forgery Inquiry Leads to Drug Arrests Detectives following up on a lead in a check forgery investigation involving a Laguna Beach business found themselves observing a drug deal in Santa Ana last Thursday, police Sgt. Louise Callus said. Before they could contact Jonathan Parker, the subject of the inquiry, he walked out of a house [...]
Editor, I’ve lived here for about seven years. During this time, I acquired the belief that this city was not interested in any change whatsoever, and the vocal majority had the muscle to resist change, sometimes as a matter of principle. I had no reason to speak out and I didn’t; but in private conversations, [...]
The coroner’s office will perform an autopsy this week to determine what caused the death of a 51-year-old diver, who was unresponsive when pulled from the ocean bottom in Laguna Beach’s Shaw’s Cove on Friday, lifeguard officials said. The diver was identified as Mark Gibbs, of Tustin, according to the coroner’s office’s website. Gibbs was [...]
Police Use Taser to Subdue Assault Suspect
An assault involving three men escalated into a struggle with Laguna Beach police, who ultimately deployed a taser twice to subdue the younger combative suspect in the 300 block of Cozumel around 1:15 a.m. Friday, May 10, police said. Police ultimately arrested Laguna Beach resident Sergio Gabriel Borgognone, 51, for allegedly resisting arrest and his [...]
