Anchor ads are not supported on this page.

4S Ranch Allied Gardens Alpine Baja Balboa Park Bankers Hill Barrio Logan Bay Ho Bay Park Black Mountain Ranch Blossom Valley Bonita Bonsall Borrego Springs Boulevard Campo Cardiff-by-the-Sea Carlsbad Carmel Mountain Carmel Valley Chollas View Chula Vista City College City Heights Clairemont College Area Coronado CSU San Marcos Cuyamaca College Del Cerro Del Mar Descanso Downtown San Diego Eastlake East Village El Cajon Emerald Hills Encanto Encinitas Escondido Fallbrook Fletcher Hills Golden Hill Grant Hill Grantville Grossmont College Guatay Harbor Island Hillcrest Imperial Beach Imperial Valley Jacumba Jamacha-Lomita Jamul Julian Kearny Mesa Kensington La Jolla Lakeside La Mesa Lemon Grove Leucadia Liberty Station Lincoln Acres Lincoln Park Linda Vista Little Italy Logan Heights Mesa College Midway District MiraCosta College Miramar Miramar College Mira Mesa Mission Beach Mission Hills Mission Valley Mountain View Mount Hope Mount Laguna National City Nestor Normal Heights North Park Oak Park Ocean Beach Oceanside Old Town Otay Mesa Pacific Beach Pala Palomar College Palomar Mountain Paradise Hills Pauma Valley Pine Valley Point Loma Point Loma Nazarene Potrero Poway Rainbow Ramona Rancho Bernardo Rancho Penasquitos Rancho San Diego Rancho Santa Fe Rolando San Carlos San Marcos San Onofre Santa Ysabel Santee San Ysidro Scripps Ranch SDSU Serra Mesa Shelltown Shelter Island Sherman Heights Skyline Solana Beach Sorrento Valley Southcrest South Park Southwestern College Spring Valley Stockton Talmadge Temecula Tierrasanta Tijuana UCSD University City University Heights USD Valencia Park Valley Center Vista Warner Springs

Locals’ parking only?

Ocean Beach visitors' cars vandalized after dispute

A dispute over a parking space resulted in the cars of two beachgoers suffering heavy vandalism damage on Thursday evening in Ocean Beach.

A horde of 15 police cruisers descended upon the 4900 block of Coronado Avenue shortly after 9 p.m. Earlier in the evening, a group of men in a red compact sedan had confronted a group exiting a white Toyota Corolla and a green Honda Civic, demanding that they move their cars to open a street parking space for the red car.

Sponsored
Sponsored

"I told them we were already parked here, and they told us that they were locals and we had to move," the Civic owner reported to a police interviewer. "They started screaming and getting all crazy, but then they left and we decided to go ahead down to the beach. I kind of worried at the time about staying parked, but we couldn't find any space anywhere else."

The group headed down to the cove at the foot of Santa Cruz Avenue, one block north of Coronado. A while later, neighbors were drawn from their homes by the sound of shattering glass and greeted with the sight of the occupants of the red car, who had returned with baseball bats and were smashing in the windows of the Civic and Corolla.

"Some guy actually walked down to the beach and asked if anyone there had a white car and a green car," continued the Civic owner. "He said, 'I've got some bad news for you guys.'"

Upon returning to the scene, the victims were assessing the damage when the occupants of the red sedan drove down the street again in an apparent attempt to survey their handiwork. Heated words were exchanged, and according to a Coronado resident, one or more of the red car's occupants brandished a weapon — reports vary as to whether the assailants were armed with knives or guns.

During the process of collecting field interviews, police got a radio call that the red car, whose license plate was captured by an observer, was reported leaving the beach area via I-8 headed toward I-5 South. About a dozen police cruisers took off in pursuit, leaving a half-dozen officers to continue the investigation.

According to one officer, more than 100 calls had been placed to police in recent hours concerning the actions of the red sedan's occupants. A resident of the 4800 block of Cape May Avenue (eight blocks north of the scene) reported a convergence of police investigating a similar incident just prior to their appearance on Coronado, though further details on the situation there were not immediately available.

Here's something you might be interested in.
Submit a free classified
or view all
Previous article

Best Sports Betting Sites - 10 Online Sportsbooks Ranked for 2024

Best Sports Betting Sites (2024) - Reviews of TOP Online Sportsbooks
Next Article

Flowering pear trees in Kensington not that nice

Empty dirt plots in front of Ken Cinema

A dispute over a parking space resulted in the cars of two beachgoers suffering heavy vandalism damage on Thursday evening in Ocean Beach.

A horde of 15 police cruisers descended upon the 4900 block of Coronado Avenue shortly after 9 p.m. Earlier in the evening, a group of men in a red compact sedan had confronted a group exiting a white Toyota Corolla and a green Honda Civic, demanding that they move their cars to open a street parking space for the red car.

Sponsored
Sponsored

"I told them we were already parked here, and they told us that they were locals and we had to move," the Civic owner reported to a police interviewer. "They started screaming and getting all crazy, but then they left and we decided to go ahead down to the beach. I kind of worried at the time about staying parked, but we couldn't find any space anywhere else."

The group headed down to the cove at the foot of Santa Cruz Avenue, one block north of Coronado. A while later, neighbors were drawn from their homes by the sound of shattering glass and greeted with the sight of the occupants of the red car, who had returned with baseball bats and were smashing in the windows of the Civic and Corolla.

"Some guy actually walked down to the beach and asked if anyone there had a white car and a green car," continued the Civic owner. "He said, 'I've got some bad news for you guys.'"

Upon returning to the scene, the victims were assessing the damage when the occupants of the red sedan drove down the street again in an apparent attempt to survey their handiwork. Heated words were exchanged, and according to a Coronado resident, one or more of the red car's occupants brandished a weapon — reports vary as to whether the assailants were armed with knives or guns.

During the process of collecting field interviews, police got a radio call that the red car, whose license plate was captured by an observer, was reported leaving the beach area via I-8 headed toward I-5 South. About a dozen police cruisers took off in pursuit, leaving a half-dozen officers to continue the investigation.

According to one officer, more than 100 calls had been placed to police in recent hours concerning the actions of the red sedan's occupants. A resident of the 4800 block of Cape May Avenue (eight blocks north of the scene) reported a convergence of police investigating a similar incident just prior to their appearance on Coronado, though further details on the situation there were not immediately available.

Comments
Sponsored
Here's something you might be interested in.
Submit a free classified
or view all
Previous article

Reader 1st place writing contest winner gets kudos

2nd place winner not so much
Next Article

Angry Pete’s goes from pop-up to drive-thru

Detroit Pizza sidles into the husk of a shuttered Taco Bell
Comments
Ask a Hipster — Advice you didn't know you needed Big Screen — Movie commentary Blurt — Music's inside track Booze News — San Diego spirits Classical Music — Immortal beauty Classifieds — Free and easy Cover Stories — Front-page features Drinks All Around — Bartenders' drink recipes Excerpts — Literary and spiritual excerpts Feast! — Food & drink reviews Feature Stories — Local news & stories Fishing Report — What’s getting hooked from ship and shore From the Archives — Spotlight on the past Golden Dreams — Talk of the town The Gonzo Report — Making the musical scene, or at least reporting from it Letters — Our inbox Movies@Home — Local movie buffs share favorites Movie Reviews — Our critics' picks and pans Musician Interviews — Up close with local artists Neighborhood News from Stringers — Hyperlocal news News Ticker — News & politics Obermeyer — San Diego politics illustrated Outdoors — Weekly changes in flora and fauna Overheard in San Diego — Eavesdropping illustrated Poetry — The old and the new Reader Travel — Travel section built by travelers Reading — The hunt for intellectuals Roam-O-Rama — SoCal's best hiking/biking trails San Diego Beer — Inside San Diego suds SD on the QT — Almost factual news Sheep and Goats — Places of worship Special Issues — The best of Street Style — San Diego streets have style Surf Diego — Real stories from those braving the waves Theater — On stage in San Diego this week Tin Fork — Silver spoon alternative Under the Radar — Matt Potter's undercover work Unforgettable — Long-ago San Diego Unreal Estate — San Diego's priciest pads Your Week — Daily event picks
4S Ranch Allied Gardens Alpine Baja Balboa Park Bankers Hill Barrio Logan Bay Ho Bay Park Black Mountain Ranch Blossom Valley Bonita Bonsall Borrego Springs Boulevard Campo Cardiff-by-the-Sea Carlsbad Carmel Mountain Carmel Valley Chollas View Chula Vista City College City Heights Clairemont College Area Coronado CSU San Marcos Cuyamaca College Del Cerro Del Mar Descanso Downtown San Diego Eastlake East Village El Cajon Emerald Hills Encanto Encinitas Escondido Fallbrook Fletcher Hills Golden Hill Grant Hill Grantville Grossmont College Guatay Harbor Island Hillcrest Imperial Beach Imperial Valley Jacumba Jamacha-Lomita Jamul Julian Kearny Mesa Kensington La Jolla Lakeside La Mesa Lemon Grove Leucadia Liberty Station Lincoln Acres Lincoln Park Linda Vista Little Italy Logan Heights Mesa College Midway District MiraCosta College Miramar Miramar College Mira Mesa Mission Beach Mission Hills Mission Valley Mountain View Mount Hope Mount Laguna National City Nestor Normal Heights North Park Oak Park Ocean Beach Oceanside Old Town Otay Mesa Pacific Beach Pala Palomar College Palomar Mountain Paradise Hills Pauma Valley Pine Valley Point Loma Point Loma Nazarene Potrero Poway Rainbow Ramona Rancho Bernardo Rancho Penasquitos Rancho San Diego Rancho Santa Fe Rolando San Carlos San Marcos San Onofre Santa Ysabel Santee San Ysidro Scripps Ranch SDSU Serra Mesa Shelltown Shelter Island Sherman Heights Skyline Solana Beach Sorrento Valley Southcrest South Park Southwestern College Spring Valley Stockton Talmadge Temecula Tierrasanta Tijuana UCSD University City University Heights USD Valencia Park Valley Center Vista Warner Springs
Close

Anchor ads are not supported on this page.