Crime & Safety
Sound Advice for A Neighborhood Altercation
A verbal altercation takes place when a man defends his wife's honor.
Go inside and stop arguing.
That was the message an Orange County Sheriff's Department 9-1-1 operator delivered to a Rancho Santa Margarita man who called to inform police that he was engaged in a verbal altercation with a neighbor.
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The reason? The neighbor called the informant's wife bad names, according to the blotter of the OCSD.
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The original call was for disturbing the peace, but was later changed to an information report.
The neighbors' feud got off to an early start: the call came Tuesday at 9:24 a.m., from Via Cordoba.
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This report was culled from the Orange County Sheriff's website. Not all facts in each report are made public; the outcome of the report may differ from the original blotter item. There should be no assumption of guilt based on this limited information.
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