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Crime & Safety

Multiple Graffiti Sightings Reported

Police briefs from around Fountain Valley.

Graffiti was reported from Fresh & Easy on Harbor Boulevard near Edinger Avenue, May 15 at 10:50 p.m. Unknown suspect(s) used aqua blue spray paint to write "chino" on the south and north walls of the business. Damage was estimated at $100.

Vehicle vandalism was reported on Bishop Place and Moran Street, May 15 at 3:20 p.m. Unknown suspect(s) used an unknown tool to scratch the rear panel and doors of the vehicle, causing an estimated $800 worth of damage.

Vehicle vandalism was reported on Loya River Avenue, May 15 at 4:06 p.m. Unknown suspect(s) used an unknown tool to dent and scratch all four sides of the vehicle, causing an estimated $1,000 worth of damage.

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Theft was reported from a vehicle parked on a residential driveway on Puffin Avenue, May 15 at 11:30 a.m. Unknown suspect(s) gained entry into the unlocked vehicle and fled undetected with $79 worth of property.

Graffiti was reported on Mount Prieto Circle and Lilac Avenue, May 14 at 9:10 p.m. A witness claimed that one of two unknown male subject in a black sedan had exited the vehicle to write "Jerry" in red and orange paint on a brick wall located on Mount Prieto before fleeing westbound on Lilac Avenue. Damage was estimated at $400.

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A $120 navigation device was reported stolen from a parked and secured vehicle on Mount Erin Circle, May 14 at 7:08 a.m. Unknown suspect(s) gained entry by using an unknown tool to break the driver's side window, causing $250 worth of damage before fleeing undetected.

A $139 television set was reported stolen from Big Lots on Magnolia Street and Talbert Avenue, May 13 at 3:52 p.m. An unknown suspect had left the business with the set, taken from a display near the front entrance, and was last seen traveling northbound on Magnolia Street in an unknown vehicle with a second suspect.

Graffiti was reported from Magnolia Street and Rhine River Avenue, May 13 at 6:38 a.m. Unknown suspect(s) used black paint to draw a six-foot tall picture resembling a phallus and wrote beside it, "nice place to make $," in letterings that measured approximately one-foot tall. Damage was estimated at $500.

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