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HERMOSA BEACH - Police Beat
Un-fair
Someone swiped about $1,500 from a vendor at last weekend's Fiesta Hermosa downtown street fair, police said. The vendor, a Hawthorne woman with a booth on Hermosa Avenue, put her cash box down on the street about 5:15 p.m. Labor Day. When she opened the box again about a half-hour later, a black bag with her cash was missing from inside.
Peeper flees
A Hermosa Avenue woman was preparing for bed about 10:40 p.m. last Wednesday when she looked down through the slits of her closed, horizontal mini-blinds and saw a man crouched down and looking up through the slits, directly at her, police said. The woman pounded on the glass and the man fled. She told police she might be able to recognize him if she saw him again.
Woman accosted
A 20th Street woman awoke about 5 a.m. Thursday to see a man walking around on the landing outside of her third floor apartment in a security building, stopping from time to time to look in through her partially open drapes. The woman pretended to be asleep until the man left. Then she called police. Officers found fingerprints on the window indicating that the man might have tried to slide the window open.
Tree trimmer falls
Hermosa firefighters rushed to the scene when a tree trimmer fell about 18 feet from a ladder while working at a condo complex along Valley Drive about 1 p.m. last Monday. The 22-year-old Long Beach man was rushed to Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. He suffered a broken thighbone, a broken forearm and a concussion.
Bar attack
An affianced couple was attacked in a Pier Plaza bar Saturday night, and officers arrested two suspects, police said. The couple was approached by two people shortly before midnight. The woman was struck in her jaw several times, and her fiancée was struck with a beer bottle, police said. Police arrested two suspects nearby.
Woman attacked
A woman went out to hose down the porch of her 27th Street home about 4 p.m. on Tuesday before last, and found a man asleep on her property beside an empty bottle of vodka, police said. The man got wet in the consequent patio washing, became verbally abusive, and then got "soaked" with the hose, a police report stated. The man then attacked the woman, causing her to hit her head on a patio table, leaving her with a bruise above her right eye, police said.
Passing the buck
A 20th Street man reported the theft of two bicycles last Wednesday evening, and wasn't shy about placing blame for a lapse of security at his home. "My wife left our garage open and apparently someone walked by and stole two bikes," the man wrote in a report to police. ER