Four hours later, another blaze started in an office building behind the Crab Cooker restaurant on the Balboa Peninsula.
Newport Beach firefighters have commissioned a study to examine how effective goats could be at preventing wildfires by gobbling up brush in Buck Gully and Morning Canyon in Corona del Mar. The fire department recently hired environmental consulting group Dudek & Associates Inc. to investigate whether goats could be part of the solution.
Gabriel Aguirre Reyes, 31, of Costa Mesa was arrested in connection with a hit-and-run collision that sent a motorcyclist to the hospital with critical injuries, authorities said.
Reyes allegedly ran a red light before striking Gerardo Oliveras, 35, of Riverside, who was heading through a green light, witnesses told police.
A Newport Beach man critically injured in a crash on Nov. 11 along Newport Boulevard near Hospital Road may have been driving under the influence, police said.
Joseph Dorando, 43, allegedly crashed a 1997 Jaguar convertible into a minivan, sending it into a roll, police said.
Newport Beach police won an online auction for a stolen solar panel and when they showed up to collect their “prize” they arrested the seller for possession of stolen property.
Detectives arrested Nathan Tyrone Mitchell, 25, on Tuesday in Santa Monica while picking up the panel they bought for $100, police said. They found eight of the nine panels, estimated at $1,485 each, in Mitchell’s apartment, police said
BUSINESS
Brewing Co. sues city, council members
The Newport Beach Brewing Co. sued Newport Beach, the City Council and five council members after a recent council vote to modify the popular restaurant’s use permit. Stephen Miles, the Brewing Co.’s attorney, said the modifications had hurt business at the restaurant and sought at least $1 million in damages.
