Don Bolles

Was a legendary punk rocker arrested for possession of ... soap? That's the question surrounding last week's jailing of Germs drummer Don Bolles after a traffic stop in Newport Beach. Bolles, 50, whose real name is Jimmy Michael Giorsetti, said in an interview that he and his girlfriend were driving to an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting Wednesday evening when police pulled over his 1968 Dodge van for a broken taillight.

There is a padlock on the gate and a single strand of barbed wire coiled over the top of the fence. When visitors call, which is rare, a city worker in a blue pickup comes to open the lock and waits the 10 or 15 minutes it takes to see all there is to see. It's not much. A broken chair, an abandoned guard shack, and, at the far end of the dusty gravel lot, a small white Datsun slumped over four flat tires. The car is the last official occupant of this old evidence yard.

There is a padlock on the gate and a single strand of barbed wire coiled over the top of the fence. When visitors call, which is rare, a city worker in a blue pickup comes to open the lock and waits the 10 or 15 minutes it takes to see all there is to see. It's not much. A broken chair, an abandoned guard shack, and, at the far end of the dusty gravel lot, a small white Datsun slumped over four flat tires. The car is the last official occupant of this old evidence yard.