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Police Beat - Hermosa Beach
Energizer bunny?
Employees of a Hermosa supermarket saw two men leaving the store with gift bags apparently stuffed with merchandise that had not been paid for, police said. The workers gave chase, and the men started running, and dropped the bags, which turned out to contain $539.84 worth of alkaline batteries.
The suspects just kept going, and going, and going…
Rip Van ripped-off
A Massachusetts man reported the loss of his cell phone, its carrying case and a pager as he fell asleep during a trek along the Strand from Hermosa to Redondo Beach between 2 a.m. and 4 a.m. last Sunday.
“I was walking from Pier Avenue to King Harbor when I sat down and fell asleep,” the man wrote in a report to police.
“Whoever stole [the items] called voice mail and left a 10-minute message saying he could sell them for 80 bucks,” the man wrote.
Extra credit?
A worker at Hermosa View School showed up Monday morning to find that someone had smashed a five-foot square window. The damage was placed at $200.
Getting bent
Someone bent a window screen at an 11th Street house between 7:30 a.m. and 8:30 p.m. Thursday, but did not get inside the home, police said.
Naked car
Someone swiped a car covering off of a 1966 MG auto as it sat on the second floor of the municipal parking garage on Hermosa Avenue Friday morning. The owner, a Redondo Beach man, listed the value of the car cover at $40.
Non-false alarm
A Lawndale woman heard her car alarm go off about 10 p.m. Friday as her 1994 Toyota was parked along Porter Lane, she reported to police. She went to the car and found that her rear door on the passenger side had been dented.
Cell gone
A man reported the loss of his $400 cell phone about 11 p.m. Wednesday at a Hermosa Avenue establishment.
“Lost phone,” the man lamented tersely in a report to police.
Smashing theft
Someone smashed a window of a vehicle parked along 11th Street last week and made off with about $950 in items including a briefcase and a “walkman”-type stereo. ER