Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
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What began as a home invasion robbery at 3:30 am in the 1700 block of 5th Street, progressed to "a violent crime scene with multiple locations." The victim, a woman in her 20's, woke up to find a man in her apartment. He attacked her, inflicting multiple injuries on the unnamed woman. Later Friday morning neighbors reported a heavily armed Santa Monica Police SWAT team at Broadway Avenue and 11th Street in Santa Monica since 6 am Friday. They focused on one yard for an hour,...
A 23-year-old man was charged today with biting two Los Angeles Police Department officers responding to a theft call in Tarzana, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Jacob Smith (dob 4/8/94) of Northridge faces two felony counts each of battery with injury on a peace officer and resisting executive officer and one misdemeanor count of petty theft. Arraignment is scheduled today in Department 100 of the Los Angeles County Superior Court, Van Nuys...
Unexpected Packages Could Surprise Your Wallet An unexpected gift on Valentine's Day might seem like a nice way to your heart, but these deliveries may also give scammers a direct route to your credit card. In the Bogus Delivery Scam, the victim gets a phone call from a "shipping company" to schedule a delivery. The scammer, sometimes dressed in uniform, arrives at the victim's house with the package. If asked who sent it, the scammer says he or she doesn't know or that the...
2/7/2018: The Santa Monica PD says it has filed charges against a 23 year old Long Beach woman, for armed robbery of a jewelry store on Montana Avenue Lexis Monee Willis allegedly came to L’Oliphant Jewelry Store around 4 PM on January 5th. She posed as a customer, selecting 2 diamond rings from the display case. When the clerk was distracted, Willis ran out of the store with $12,000 in diamond rings, police say. Willis “ran towards the alley and entered the passenger sid...
Update, 1/07/17: From Rudy Flores, SMPD PIO: On 01/05/2018 at approximately 1540 hours, a grand theft and assault with a deadly weapon occurred at the L’Oliphant jewelry store, located at 1621 Montana Ave, Santa Monica. An unidentified female suspect entered the business and asked to try on several rings, then fled the business on foot wearing a ring and a eternity band valued at approximately $12,250. The victim followed the suspect into the alley and observed her entering a...
3/29: The Observer has learned the names of both the perpetrator and victims in what Long Beach Police called an act of workplace violence Friday. "Major Langer came to the office to fire a named partner named John Mendoza. Mendoza pulled out a gun and shot Major dead and shot Ron (Beck) in the stomach. Ron's in the hospital with serious injuries," says our source. "Then Mendoza shot himself to death, too." In the 1990's, Los Angeles personal injury attorney Larry H Parker...
The Santa Monica Police Department is seeking the public's assistance with any information involving a burglary that occurred on December 28th, 2017. Detectives are investigating a commercial burglary of a construction site in the area of the 2300 block of 33rd Street. The suspect was seen by witnesses leaving the location on foot carrying construction tools. The suspect is described as a black male, shaved and/or balding head, 25-30-years-old, 5'11" to 6'0", 190-200 lbs.,...
Santa Monica Police broke up the fight on the pier at 1:18 Sunday morning. Two groups of guys had an “altercation. Neither party was desirous of prosecution, and that both groups went their separate ways," police said in a press release. Presumably meaning neither side wanted to press charges against the other. However, at 4:30 am one of the men came back to the pier to retrieve his car. Daniel Arroyos, 21, got into another argument with the other group of men. He tried to r...
As a result of a car versus pedestrian accident around 7:25 pm Tuesday evening a pedestrian was on the ground at 9th Street and Montana Avenue in Santa Monica. Paramedics were treating him. Enough paramedics to fill a hospital, in fact. Details are pending. 2017 has been a particularly bad year for pedestrians in Santa Monica. Trains and automobiles, as well as busses, have killed 8 pedestrians and injured over a dozen, by our count in the congested Westside City. This is...
SMPD Seeks Assistance in Identifying Stabbing Suspect. Considered armed and dangerous. Santa Monica Police Seeks Community Assistance in Stabbing On November 3, 2017 at about 11:25 AM, Santa Monica Police Department (SMPD) officers responded to a radio call for service of an assault with a deadly weapon incident in the area of Fourth Street / Santa Monica Blvd. When officers arrived on scene they located a male victim with multiple stab wounds to his upper body area. Santa...
A bus to bus shooting just before 1 am Saturday, killed one woman right in front of the Santa Monica Pier Arch. Two people were hospitalized. The area remained closed to traffic at 9 am Sunday, as police investigate. Police say that two groups of people got out of two different busses and started to argue with each other. Shots were fired from one group into the other, and the suspects fled into Palisades Park. Police could not immediately find them. The intersection of...
A bomb threat closed Santa Monica high school early this afternoon. Students were sent home just after lunch and Pico Boulevard was closed west of Lincoln Boulevard for two hours. All available Santa Monica Police Department units responded at the time. It was determined that the telephone thread had no validity and ultimately the area was cleared and reopened. Lincoln Boulevard and Pico Boulevard may both be considered major Westside arteries....
A man who claims to be a St. Monica's Catholic school alumnus, stole a truck towing a concrete mixer on PCH, then drove it to St. Monica's where he was arrested. The incident happened on Saturday afternoon just after 3:30 PM. Our photographer captured photos, just as I half dozen Santa Monica police officers arrived and formally arrested the 30-year-old man. But police were sure they had their man, who said that the truck dropped concrete and equipment all over PCH on the way...
A 43-year-old man pled not guilty Wednesday. A judge ordered Jason Levi Garza to stand trial for allegedly carjacking and kidnapping a man waiting for his wife outside of the UCLA Public Health building, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Santa Monica resident Garza was arraigned today after being held to answer on June 28 for one count of kidnapping for carjacking, carjacking with a firearm, kidnapping, criminal threats and assault with a firearm....
On June 9, 2017, officers from the Santa Monica Police Department's Vice Unit conducted a minor decoy operation targeting alcohol retail establishments within the Main Street corridor and downtown area. The Minor Decoy Program uses supervised individuals under the age of 20, who attempt to purchase alcohol at licensed premises. Any sale of alcohol to a minor decoy may result in criminal and administrative sanctions for the employee and the licensee. The team visited 8 alcohol...
A homeless man has pleaded to stabbing a Santa Monica Pier restaurant employee multiple times, after demanding food last summer, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced today. Calvin Earl Gullett, 34, entered no contest pleas yesterday to two counts of assault with a deadly weapon, a knife, and one count of second-degree robbery in case SA093841. Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Mark Windham immediately sentenced Gullett to 20 years in state prison....
Santa Monica Police Chief Seabrooks said after a lot of work and questioning people close to Virginia Park on the evening of Feb. 26th, that they have a suspect in the murder of Juan Castillo. Sherman M. Espinoza, 42, an LA Resident, taken into custody at 2 pm yesterday, May 17th. He was in possession of an Uzi and also a 32 caliber gun probably used to shoot Juan Castillo in the head. The SMPD press release reads: "On February 26, 2017 at about 5:08 a.m.,the Santa Monica...
On May 26, 2017 at about 6:01 p.m. the Santa Monica Police Department (SMPD) responded to a radio call for service regarding a home invasion robbery which occurred in the 200 block of 19th Street. Officers arrived on scene and observed a possible suspect. The suspect fled from officers into to the rear yard of a home in the 200 block of 20th Street. The suspect secreted himself in the rear yard and refused to comply with officers. SMPD SWAT and Crisis Negotiators responded to...
Santa Monica Police say they are searching for two suspects in the severe beating of a resident during a possible home invasion robbery Monday North of Montana Avenue. The assault occurred in the 500 block of 17th Street, just after 3 p.m. according to Lt. Saul Rodriguez, SMPD's Public Information Officer. The victim was "assaulted pretty severely" and treated by paramedics at the scene, Rodriguez said. He was taken to a local hospital where he remains in serious condition....
An 8 year SMPD veteran faces 5 years in a Taiwan jail, when she "simply forgot" that she had a Luger pistol and 6 bullets in her carry on handbag. Taiwanese customs came upon the weapon, which somehow was not detected at LAX, and that's potentially the greater story. It means that TSA policies failed to detect a pistol. Noell Grant's odyssey began when she arrived at Taoyuan International Airport near Taipei. Authorities detected the weapon in her bag. She told airport police...
A barricade situation on the world famous Las Vegas Blvd, ended peacefully Saturday evening, when a suspect surrendered to officers of the Las Vegas Municipal Police Department. Another person was also wounded, said police spokesman Officer Larry Hadfield. The shooting took place on the bus, he confirmed. The shooting suspect was barricaded on a bus, and tactical teams and negotiators were on Las Vegas Boulevard, which is closed between Flamingo Road and Harmon Avenue. "This...
3/21: Santa Monica suffered yet another fatality automobile accident Tuesday afternoon at 4:20, this time a few yards away from the headquarters of the Santa Monica Police Department. A sedan hit a male pedestrian in the parking lot between The Santa Monica courthouse and the Rand corporation. A 40-year-old man who had just paid a traffic fine, was paying for parking at an electronic kiosk. Allegedly, Cal State University Los Angeles Student Absadi Kidane drove a vehicle at a...
Update: Two boys in the backseat of a car when it was stolen, were found safe in the abandoned Honda Accord early Friday in Desert Hot Springs, police said. Jayden and Carlos Cortez were found by Riverside County Sheriff's deputies inside the abandoned white Honda Accord, with its engine still on, at around 2:40 a.m. parked at a church in the 17400 block of Bubbling Springs Road, Cathedral City police said. Jayden, 1, and Carlos, 2, was taken to a hospital for evaluation and h...
The Santa Monica Police Department will be conducting Bike and Pedestrian Safety Enforcement Operations with focused enforcement efforts on primary collision factors involving motorists, pedestrians and bicyclists. The Police Department periodically identifies locations where bike and pedestrian collisions are prevalent, along with the violations that led to those collisions. In an effort to lower deaths and injuries, officers will be on duty patrolling areas where bike and...
People drive very quickly on Nielson Way, which is just one block from the ocean. Today, the SMPD reported a near fatal accident at Nielson Way and Hollister Avenue, about a block north of Ocean Park Blvd. "We have not been able to get a statement from the victim and there are no witnesses to the collision" said police spokesman Saul Rodriguez. Here's the official press release: The Santa Monica Police Department (SMPD) is seeking the public's assistance with any witnesses or...
