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Police Beat: Manhattan Beach
Photo opportunity
A resident driving to work past Sand Dune Park spied a man on Bell Avenue with personal training equipment. He went back home, got his camera, photographed the man and drove away. Blocks later, he was cut off by the man driving a silver SUV. The man demanded to know why the resident was taking photos of him, saying he did nothing wrong. As the man drove off, he warned the resident not to take pictures of him again. The resident told police he'd previously followed the man from the park, trying to find out where he lived, but stopped when he saw the man driving in the general direction of Inglewood.
Give and take
A burglar entered through a living room window in the 1100 block of 23rd Street on July 25. The suspect rummaged through the entire house. A list of stolen items was not available. Before leaving, the suspect left an unflushed greeting in the master bedroom toilet and a pair of size-9 Timberland shoes under the living room sofa.
Lost and found
A supervisor parked his vehicle - with doors unlocked and windows open - at a construction site in the 1800 block of Pine Avenue on 20. He left the vehicle for 30 minutes and returned to find a plastic bag he left on the front passenger seat containing $2000 cash and seven payroll checks missing. None of the on-site employees said they took the bag. Several hours later, the bag and its contents turned up, after an employee at the site said he saw the bag on the seat and moved it.
It happens to lifeguards, too
On July 23 at 9 p.m. at the Manhattan Beach Pier, a Los Angeles County lifeguard put his bag on the ground as he locked the front door of the lifeguard station. He went to secure the rest of the building. When he returned 15 seconds later, he discovered the bag was missing. Among its contents were uniforms valued at $500 and two binoculars. ER