Arrest Brings Birthday Celebrant Back to Earth
A Van Nuys man celebrated his 25th birthday by climbing to the top of a 200-foot construction crane in Burbank with a friend Wednesday and sharing a bottle of schnapps, a party that ended when police arrested them.
Fernando Holguin, whose birthday was Tuesday, and Bryan Petri, also 25, of Canoga Park, were arrested on suspicion of trespassing about 1 a.m. after a police officer and a firefighter climbed part way up the crane and ordered them down.
Police Sgt. Don Goldberg said the two men were on their way up the crane when police began receiving calls from passers-by.
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