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Police Beat - Hermosa Beach
Feel a draft?
A Hermosa man parked his white 1997 Jeep Wrangler along 21st Street about 6 p.m. Sunday, and when he returned to the vehicle at 5:45 the next morning he was met with a surprise.
"I walked to my car, and both doors were gone," he wrote in a report to police.
"I then called police about 6:30 a.m., after making sure no one was playing a joke," he continued. "No one was!"
Easy pickings
A Rolling Hills Estates woman might have shown a little too much faith in her fellow person when she left some belongings on a lifeguard tower close to midnight last Monday.
"We left the purse with our shoes on top of the Fifth Street tower when we went for a walk," she wrote in a report to police.
"When we came back the purse was gone but our shoes were still there," she reported.
Missing along with the purse were a driver's license, $40 in cash and keys to a Cadillac.
Missing woman found
Hermosa Beach Police Officer Loren Lipson was on patrol about 7:45 p.m. Sunday when he noticed a woman appearing disoriented as she sat in a minivan in the area of Pacific Coast Highway and Artesia.
The woman told Lipson that she was a diabetic in need of insulin, and she was taken to Little Company of Mary Hospital in Torrance, along with her great-granddaughter, who was with her.
Lipson discovered that the woman was a "critical missing person" from Los Angeles and her family was notified, a police report stated.
Heirlooms gone
Someone used main force to push open a window and get inside a vehicle parked in along Hermosa Avenue sometime between 7 p.m. Sunday, July 16 and 7:30 a.m. the next day, police said.
Stolen were a Pioneer radio/CD player, a $3,000 diamond wedding band that belonged to the motorist's grandfather and a $500 gold necklace and butterfly pendant that belonged to the motorist's grandmother, a police report stated.
Script event
A Los Angeles woman came to Hermosa to skate along the Strand, but made the mistake of leaving a bag with personal effects, including a script for a play, behind her near the sand about 4 p.m. Sunday.
When she returned an hour later the big black bag was gone along with its contents, including the script, some grapes and cherries, and some Tarot cards and "runes," she reported.
"I really would like the script back, that's all I care about," she wrote in a report to police.
Vanishing man?
A good Samaritan strolled into the police station on Sunday and turned in a full set of clothes plus a wallet, keys and a cell phone that she had found along Bayview about 3 p.m.
The total inventory was a set of keys, a cell phone, a wallet with credit cards, $77 cash, a pair of jeans, a pair of socks, a pair of shoes and a shirt.
Scooter scoots
A 40-year-old man left one of those foot scooters outside a building on 25th Street about 3 p.m. Monday, and when he returned about an hour later the scooter was gone.
The scooter was described as a Razor 2000, silver with blue hand grips and wheels, and was valued at $130.
Phone gone
By far the most commonly lost or stolen item popping up in Hermosa police reports is the cell phone, and on Sunday the beat went on.
A Redondo Beach woman was out on the Pier Plaza to have lunch and do some shopping, and she realized about 3 p.m. that her $300 Nokia was no longer with her. ER