Police Beat: knives and guns, HBPD full emplyment, Five MB Burglaries, $10,000 for shooting suspect
by Liz Mullen Hermosa Beach Police Department officers responded to reports of a man brandishing a gun in two separate incidents, in recent weeks, as well as two male transients wielding knives. Officers arrested the two men with knives and one of the men with a gun, but are still seeking two other suspects in […]
Police Beat: Deadly hands, homeless invaded home, burglaries, and missing cruiser
by Liz Mullin Deadly hands Hermosa Beach Police Department officers arrested a woman for assault with a deadly weapon after she choked a woman neighbor. HBPD started getting 911 calls shortly after midnight early Tuesday, Feb. 18, about a fight between two women on the 200 block of 32nd Place, according to HBPD Officer Keaton […]
Police Beat: spotlight thefts, fire patrol ends, MC student remembered
by Liz Mullen Hermosa Beach Police Department detectives are investigating the theft of expensive truck spotlights from at least four trucks in the city in recent weeks. “We don’t know if it’s one person or multiple people, but they are stealing spotlights off of trucks,” HBPD Officer Keaton Dadigan told the Easy Reader. “They’re called […]
Police Beat: Beach City first responders called to Eaton Fire
by Liz Mullen Off-duty officers from the Redondo, Hermosa and Manhattan Beach police departments have been working at the Eaton Fire in Altadena over the past week. Officers are patrolling the fire site to prevent looting and other criminal activity as well as providing security and aid to the shelter for Eaton fire victims who […]
Beach 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 […]
Police 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, […]
Beach 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 […]
Lieu secures $963,000 for HBPD hi tech crime center
by Liz Mullen Hermosa Beach Police Department will receive $963,000 in federal funds for what Police Chief Paul LeBaron describes as a Real Time Crime Center. “I have had people actually ask me, ‘Where is it going to be?’” LeBaron said in an interview on Tuesday. The Real Time Crime Center will not be a […]