POLICE BRIEFS

Torus Tammer

Police responded to an attempted robbery Aug. 30 at Brierwood jewelry

store, in the 18000 block of Brookhurst Street in Fountain Valley.

According to the Fountain Valley Police Department, a boy entered the

store at 4:45 p.m. and asked several jewelry-related questions. Worried,

the jewelry store employee called authorities after seeing the boy enter

a vehicle that was later discovered to have been carjacked earlier that

day, police said. The vehicle was driven by a woman who was later

identified as 20-year-old Vera Miesha Dixon from Linwood, police said.

When Officer Ken Hounsley arrived at the scene and spotted the two

individuals, they fled on foot, discarding two handguns in the process,

police said. The two were caught and taken into custody, police said.

They were handed over to the Garden Grove Police Department for further

investigation.

Both suspects could be charged with conspiracy to commit attempted

robbery, police said. Dixon’s bail was set at $50,000. Police did not

release information about the boy because he is a minor.