Fourth of July in Hermosa Beach was a busy holiday for the city’s emergency services, with mounted police dispersing a huge teenage party on the beach and the jail filling up at 10 p.m.
Sgt. Bob Higgins said in his 17 years with the department, the jail has reached maximum capacity only twice. Wednesday’s arrests made for the highest volume of arrests for a Fourth of July in the last four to five years.
After the 8-cell Hermosa jail filled up, officers brought offenders to the Redondo
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