Nursery Worker Finds More than Just Flowers in a Gardening Bed

EDITOR'S NOTE: This story has been corrected to indicate a gardening center employee, not a shopper, found the paraphernalia.

That’s not what shoppers would want! At 10:23 a.m. Thursday, a caller reported finding a bag of drug paraphernalia in a gardening bed at the Armstrong Gardening Center. According to an employee at the nursery, between closing Wednesday night and opening Thursday morning, someone had dropped a small bag containing drug paraphernalia over one of the gates onto a rack of plants. As the associate was putting the our plant material away Thursday morning, it was discovered. 

Also:

At 6:01 p.m., a caller complained that four boys were playing hockey in the 25700 block of Park Avenue. The caller said the boys were hitting a ball against his car.

At 3:14 p.m. Thursday, deputies received a call about a disturbance near the La Novia Avenue-San Juan Creek Road intersection. According to the report, two men on orange dirt bikes were riding on the horse trails.

At 1:31 p.m. Thursday, a caller phoned deputies to say he heard someone in his backyard in the 33700 block of Paseo del Puerto.

These are selected reports from the San Juan Capistrano Police Dispatch Services log throughout the past few days. The calls represent what was told to a sheriff's deputy in the field by the radio dispatcher. No presumption of criminal guilt or affiliation should be drawn from the information provided.