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Police Beat: Manhattan Beach
Armed robbery
Two people reported to police that they were robbed in front of their home on the 1600 block of Oak Avenue around 1 a.m. Feb. 16. The couple said that they parked their car across the street from their house after returning home from a local bar, when two men approached them while four other individuals waited in the street. The incident took place on the couple's driveway where one of the men reportedly displayed a chrome or stainless steel revolver and made them get on the ground. The robbers took $2,800 in cash, jewelry and personal items from the couple, and then fled on foot, the couple reported.
Gun report
A police report on Feb. 14 stated that a couple got into an argument outside a restaurant on Rosecrans Boulevard at approximately 10 p.m. The restaurant’s manager told police that he saw a man and a woman arguing with a group of four men and that one of the men opened his jacket to reveal a gun. The manager told police that the man did not completely remove the gun from his coat or point it at anyone. The couple told police that they did not see a gun and that they did not wish to press charges.
Upchuck vandalism
On Feb. 14 a resident of Artesia Boulevard told police that someone spread vomit and feces on her driveway, and left a bag of trash from a fast food restaurant.
Knob knocked off
A resident of Poinsettia Avenue told police that she returned home on Feb. 15 to find one of the doorknobs to her home damaged.
Love American style
According to police reports, a man was assaulted on Feb. 14 around 8:30 p.m. in a restaurant parking lot on Rosecrans Avenue. The man told police that another couple had taken a parking spot that he and his girlfriend were waiting for. The man said he exchanged a look, but no words, with the other driver. While exiting his vehicle, the woman’s male passenger approached the man who lost the spot and asked him why he was disrespecting his girlfriend, according to the report. The man told police that he apologized but the other man began to strike him in the face. After the knocking the man to the ground, the other man and his girlfriend fled in their car, the report stated. The man told police that his leather jacket was stolen during the assault. ER