Four booked on burglary suspicion

Neither the cover of night nor a locked door could keep the law from four people police believe were stealing a plasma-screen TV from a vacated Newport Beach apartment Monday, authorities said.

About 2:28 a.m., police received a call from the complex security guard at the Coronado at Newport Apartments, 1700 E. 16th St. He told officers he saw a woman, Saisha Miranda, 29, of Huntington Beach, pacing outside some apartments and occasionally looking up to the second floor and looking around as if she were a watch-out, authorities said.

When Miranda saw security, she walked away, police said. The security guard decided to check it out and went up to the second floor, where he found Brian Havens, 33, of Huntington Beach, walking out of an apartment with a 42-inch plasma-screen TV, said Sgt. Evan Sailor.

When Havens saw the security guard, he shuffled back into the apartment with the TV, slammed the door and locked it, police said. The security guard called police.

It turned out the apartment came furnished with the TV, among other things, and belongs to the property owner, United Dominion Realty.

Police arrived to find that Havens and his cohort, Timothy Aubrey, 28, of Newport Beach, had jumped from the apartment’s second-story balcony and run off. Aubrey broke his ankle on the jump, and Havens was found hiding nearby through the Eagle helicopter’s thermal-vision camera. Miranda returned to the scene and was arrested, Sailor said.

Eighteen-year-old Beau Aubrey of Santa Ana was also arrested at the scene. Police could not immediately provide what his role might have been in the incident.

All four were booked on suspicion of residential burglary and held in lieu of $50,000 bail.

— Joseph Serna