POLICE FILES - May 4, 2000

Officials are still investigating the death of a 35-year-old transient

who walked into oncoming traffic on Beach Boulevard on Saturday.

At 12:30 a.m., Rene Nichole Robel tried crossing the boulevard against a

red light at Yorktown Avenue, Huntington Beach Police Lt. Chuck Thomas

said.

A truck driver, who narrowly missed her, claimed she appeared

intoxicated, he said. She seemed not to pay attention to the truck and

soon after was struck by a car driven by Janet Fournier, 70, of Newport

Beach, Thomas said.

Paramedics took Robel, who suffered severe head and leg injuries, to UCI

Medical Center in Orange where she died Sunday.

Fournier escaped injury and was not charged with any wrongdoing, Thomas

said.

Police looking for man who made bomb threat

A man who phoned in a bomb threat last Thursday at a Huntington Beach

middle school will be difficult to identify, police said.

The “real quick” phone call he made cannot be traced, Huntington Beach

Lt. Chuck Thomas said.

“There’s not a whole lot for us to go on,” he said.

At 9 a.m., police were notified of the threat at Isaac L. Sowers Middle

School in the 9300 block of Indianapolis Avenue.

School officials joined police in a search for explosives on campus after

evacuating about 1,000 students to a nearby field, Thomas said. No

explosives were found.

Students returned to class at 11 a.m.

Shot sea lion

put to sleep

Authorities don’t hold out much hope of finding whoever is responsible

for shooting a sea lion that was found Tuesday at Bolsa Chica State

Beach.

At 11 a.m., the 500-pound adult male was discovered by the shore with

seven bullet holes in his head, said Brett Schneider, deputy special

agent for the National Marine Fisheries Service.

“A lot of this happens out in the ocean,” Schneider said. “Nobody else is

out there except the person doing it, so it’s very difficult to know what

happened.”

The animal was still alive before being taken to the office of a rescue

organization called Friends of the Sea Lion in Laguna Beach. A

veterinarian there put the animal to sleep, Schneider said.

In the last four years, about half a dozen ocean animals have been

reported shot in California, he said. No suspects were ever found.

Men found bleeding

outside of library

After a knife fight at Westminster Mall last Thursday night, two men with

stab wounds drove to Huntington Beach in search of a hospital, police

said.

At about 8 p.m., they ended up at the parking lot of the Central Library,

where a patron saw them bleeding and called 911, Westminster Police

Officer Robin Kapp said.

Dong Ngoc Tran, 18, of Tustin, suffered cuts on his stomach and neck, he

said. The other victim, a 15-year-old Garden Grove resident, had gashes

to his neck, chest and lower back, he said. His name is not being

released because he is a juvenile. The pair were taken to UCI Medical

Center in Orange.

The fight, which involved three other men and two women, could be

gang-related, Kapp said. No arrests have been made. A more detailed

description of the women is not available but the men were all in their

late teens to early 20s, about 5’6” and 120 pounds, Kapp said. Two had

shaved heads. The third had spiky yellow hair.

Anyone with information should call Westminster police at 898-3315.

-- Eron Ben-Yehuda