By Miles Clements

MAIN STREET, SEAL BEACH
THURS | APRIL 12 5:29 PM
Local storeowners report that a balding man in his mid-30s seemed to be looking for more than cookies when he entered their business and asked if any Girl Scouts had come into the store. When employees refused to give the man any information, he immediately fled on foot down Main Street.

IRONWOOD AVE, SEAL BEACH
FRI | APRIL 13 1:15 PM
A construction worker was found ransacking a woman’s garden, snatching up plumerias and a number of other tropical plants. When the homeowner confronted the man, he offered her $100 for the yard candy. She refused and called the police. Responding officers not only found the man with an armful of flowers, but with a gun he apparently used to force the plants into his white work truck. Police were able to “counsel” the man into giving up the gun and freeing the distressed flora.