Posts by Liz Mullen
Beach Cities Police Beat: Black SUV, Town Hall meeting, four guns seven people, dog licenses, burglars
by Liz Mullen Black SUVs used in two MB assaults Two different men were assaulted and robbed in Manhattan Beach by men who drove away in black SUVs, in what police believe were unrelated attacks during the week of Sept. 5 to Sept. 11. On Sept. 7 at about 1 a.m., a man was placing…
Read MoreBeach Cities Police Beat: HB forbidden fruit, Resident shelters, car thief steals e-bike, speed enforcement
by Liz Mullin HB fruit vendor’s forbidden fruit Hermosa Beach Police Department officers arrested a fruit vendor for possession of a large amount of methamphetamine in plastic baggies, foiled a residential burglary and nabbed a thief who was involved in stealing a car and an e-bike. HBPD has been warning the public about vendors selling…
Read MoreBeach Cities Police Beat: missing person, RB Pier shooter sentenced, parking scam, sand-throwing
Missing person turns up at burglary in Manhattan Beach by Liz Mullen Manhattan Beach Police Department officers are investigating two residential burglaries and ended up finding a missing person while responding to a third. On Aug. 16 at about 2:52 a.m. MBPD responded to a report of persons trying to enter residences. This person did…
Read MoreBeach Cities Police Beat: Tag launcher, DUI checkpoint, retail theft
by Liz Mullen Tag launcher helps HBPD end car chases The Hermosa Beach Police Department will soon be able to launch GPS trackers onto the cars and trucks of suspects that refuse officers’ orders to pull over, a move that could lessen or eliminate the danger of high-speed pursuits. The Hermosa Beach city council approved…
Read MorePolice Beat: TNT, suspect story, garage fire, loaded gun, BB shooter
by Liz Mullen Tacos with traffic HBPD motorcycle officers will hold “Tacos with traffic” at El Tarasco, at 337 Pier Ave., from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 22. Free tacos will be served. Officers will answer questions about traffic, including e-bikes, loud exhausts, speeding vehicles and neighborhood traffic issues. HBPD motorcycles will…
Read MorePolice Beat: welfare check, wrong town, thefts, unhappy joyride
by Liz Mullen RBPD welfare check finds deceased resident Redondo Beach Police Department officers making a welfare check requested by concerned family members found a 45-year-old white woman dead in her home in South Redondo on Friday, Aug. 2. The woman, who lived on the 800 block of South Catalina Avenue, was identified by the…
Read MorePolice Beat: Crashes, citations, weapons, and thieves
by Liz Mullen HB, PCH accident A motorist in a hurry was hit by a truck in Hermosa Beach, causing a traffic collision that destroyed a traffic light and closed Pacific Coast Highway for hours last Friday, July 26. Both the car and the truck were going southbound on Pacific Coast Highway approaching Second Street,…
Read MoreBeach Cities Police Beat: HBPD new eyes, bloody trail,
by Liz Mullen HBPD gets a new pair of eyes The Hermosa Beach Police Department is using new technology to more efficiently distribute resources, and solve crimes, as well as to determine whether a crime occurred, HBPD Chief Paul LeBaron told the City Council on Tuesday. The city recently received the first year’s installment of…
Read MoreBeach Cities Police Beat: Blood on The Strand, Craigslist deal gone bad, school fire
by Liz Mullen Blood on The Strand Hermosa Beach Police Department officers followed a trail of blood 11 blocks long on the Strand before finding a man who was bleeding profusely from a cut on his hand in the early morning hours of Saturday, July 13. HBPD started getting calls about the blood sometime after…
Read MoreBeach Cities Police Beat: Goonies, Man found dead, e-bike crackdown, Elks Club attack
MB Goonies parents notified Manhattan Beach Police Department Chief Rachel Johnson gave burglary prevention tips, discussed crime trends and answered residents’ questions about a teenage group known as the Manhattan Beach Goonies at a Town Hall late last month. About 50 residents attended Johnson’s annual Town Hall at the Joslyn Center on June 27 and…
Read MorePolice Beat: MB Strand walkers robbed, 3 robberies in RB, and 4 commercial burglaries
by Liz Mullen MB Strand walkers robbed at gunpoint The Manhattan Beach Police Department is investigating an armed robbery, an assault with a deadly weapon and four residential burglaries. On Saturday June 22 at about 3:45 a.m. a dark colored Jeep Wrangler drove up to a woman and her friend who were walking on 40th…
Read MorePolice Beat: MBPD Chief Johnson warns about ‘bank jugging’
by Liz Mullen Manhattan Beach Police Department Chief Rachel Johnson wants to alert residents to an old scam colloquially known as “bank jugging.”. A thief waits outside a bank, and follows a person who comes out with an envelope full of cash. The thief then steals the envelope when the person leaves it in the…
Read MoreBeach Cities Police Beat: E-bike violations, Metlox assault case, copper theft, and feuding roommates
by Liz Mullen Task force to target e-bike violations The Redondo Beach, Hermosa Beach and Manhattan Beach police departments have formed a task force to address traffic violations, including e-bike violations, and juvenile crime over the summer. “Traffic safety and juvenile crime … usually includes kids on e-bikes,” HBPD Chief Paul LeBaron said. “But it…
Read MorePolice Beat: RB murder suspect, Elks Club assault, burglaries and more
by Liz Mullen Redondo murder suspect rearrested Alexis Martinez, the man charged with killing Teddy Campos at the Redondo Beach Pier in February, is due in court later this month after the Redondo Beach Police Department re-arrested him. Campos was found shot in the head in a Pier parking lot stairwell on the morning of…
Read MorePolice Beat: Busy weekend, GPS stalker, Lyft driver robbed
by Liz Mullin Busy weekend in Hermosa Hermosa Beach Police Department officers responded to 342 calls over the Memorial Day weekend, HBPD Chief Paul LeBaron told the City Council Tuesday. HBPD officers also made 48 traffic stops, 17 subject stops and wrote 16 citations and 35 reports — including six for hit-and-run — and made…
Read MorePolice Beat: MBPD find swastikas, teen assault arrest, car burglarized in RB
by Liz Mullen MBPD finds swastikas in the park The Manhattan Beach Police Department is investigating two incidents in which swastikas were spray painted in Sand Dune Park, a few weeks after a sign with racial slurs was left there. MBPD was alerted to a swastika painted on a tree in the park between 30th…
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