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Police Beat - Hermosa Beach
Prostitution arrests
Two people were arrested last Wednesday for allegedly running a prostitution operation out of their Herondo Street apartment, police said.
A 35-year-old woman was arrested on suspicion of felony pimping and pandering, and a 20-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of misdemeanor solicitation of prostitution, Hermosa Beach Police Officer Paul Wolcott said. Both were freed on bond pending arraignment.
The arrests followed a one-month undercover investigation by vice detectives from the Hermosa and Redondo Beach police departments and the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Office.
The woman and man ran separate advertisements in the transsexual personal ad section of the "LA Express" weekly publication, Wolcott said. The man described himself as having a "Pamela Lee and Barbie look" and the woman described herself as a "cute, blond, beach type."
Cell damage
A Hermosa man filed the following report with police:
"I just lost my cell phone. I don't know where or when for sure. I think it fell off on the freeway (405 northbound) maybe."
Prowling arrest
Police arrested an alleged prowler Friday night following a game of hide-and-seek through three properties.
The event began shortly before 10 p.m. when a barking dog alerted a Springfield Avenue resident to the presence of a suspicious character. When officers arrived they saw a man lying atop a nearby carport, a police report stated.
The man dashed into the parking lot at Sunrise Assisted Living on Pacific Coast Highway, where he crawled under a bus and then hopped a wall into the parking lot of a neighboring apartment complex.
In that parking lot, police arrested the man, who was identified by the Springfield resident as the prowler, the report stated.
Man attacked
A 20-year-old Torrance man was accosted by several people, one of whom he identified as his girlfriend's ex-boyfriend, shortly before 7 p.m. Monday in the area of Noble Park, police said.
The man tried to run away, and one of the others executed a "bunny hop" maneuver on his bicycle, cutting the man's leg with the bike's rear axle nut, police said.
The man called 911 from a phone at a Pier Plaza business, and officers found him in a state of shock with a cut "deep to the bone" in his leg, a police report stated. The man was taken to Little Company of Mary Hospital in Torrance. ER