Update: ‘Personal Beef,’ Not Burglary, Behind Helicopter Search

Updated 5:24 p.m. Monday with new information that it was vandalism, not a burglary, that prompted the helicopter search.

A man and woman initially thought to be armed burglars turned out to be a window-smashing duo caught up in a "personal beef," police said Monday.

At 11:09 a.m. Monday, police received a call about a possible burglary at an apartment complex on the 12700 block of Rancho Peñasquitos Boulevard, San Diego police Lt. Andra Brown said.

Police began looking for two suspects—a man said to possibly have a weapon, and a woman—and a helicopter circled surrounding neighborhoods, calling out descriptions of the pair. But once police made contact with the resident at the scene of the alleged burglary, they determined that the suspects had been yelling at the person inside about a "personal beef" and smashed his window before fleeing, but there was no burglary, Brown said.

It "did not appear" the male suspect had a gun, she said.

The resident did not want to file a report and police abandoned the search, Brown said.