Police Blotter: Sexual Battery, Resisting Arrest and Drug Possession

Assaulting a police officer

At approximately 12:45 p.m. on Dec. 10, officers responded to a call of a possible fight at the Ocean Park Community Center, 503 Olympic Blvd. They were met by the victim of an assault who told the officers that he was slapped by a 31-year-old woman whom he pointed to that was standing in the area. The officers asked her to step out of the crowded interior of the OPCC so that they could continue their investigation in a safer environment.  She refused several times and had to be forcefully walked out. At one point she kicked one of the officers twice as she was being walked out.

The victim of the crime, on advice from a friend, later decided that he did not want to prosecute the woman that slapped him.  She was taken to jail and arrested for assaulting a police officer.

Sexual Battery

At approximately 4 p.m. on Dec. 11, officers were sent to the 1400 block of Ocean Avenue regarding a sexual battery that had just occurred. They met with the victim who told them that she was grabbed in the crotch area by a person while she was walking westbound on the Broadway Ave stairs that connects Palisades Park with the beach.  As she was walking west he passed her walking east while grabbing her.

While talking to the victim, police dispatch notified officers that there was a man in the area of Palisades Park and Montana Ave exposing his penis. Officers responded to that location and took custody of him.  The subject in custody also matched the description of the subject that had grabbed the victim’s crotch. The victim was taken to the area where officers had the person detained for exposing his penis.  She was able to positively identify him as the person that grabbed her crotch.

Burglary

At approximately 6:40 p.m. on Dec. 14, officers assigned to a holiday safety detail in the downtown area monitored and responded to a radio call of an intoxicated person refusing to leave a dressing room in the Bloomingdale’s Department Store located at 315 Colorado Ave. The loss prevention agent that worked for the store told the officers that he believed that the subject had stolen merchandise from the store.

Officers found the subject, a 28-year-old Reseda man, to be inebriated. They conducted a search of the subject and found a pair of wire cutters on him as well has wire cut security tags laying in the dressing room that had come from merchandise. On his person they found merchandise valued at $513 by Bloomingdale's security personnel.

Resisting Arrest

At approximately 12:30 a.m. on Dec. 14, officers responded to the 900 block of Sixth Street in response to a woman heard screaming while a man was banging on a door. When officers arrived and knocked on the door, they heard a man’s voice inside tell someone else not to answer the door. Believing that there may be activity inside the location where a person’s safety might be in jeopardy, they announced to the occupants that they would force the door open if the occupants did not open the door for them. This was repeated several times to the occupants. 

There was no response and officers forced entry into the residence by kicking in the door. They found a 25-year-old man and woman inside. The woman was inebriated and the man admitted to telling the other occupant not to answer the door. He was taken to jail for resisting/obstructing the officers in their duties.  There was no foul play found inside of the residence.

Drug Possession & Shoplifting

At approximately 7 p.m. on Dec. 15 officers responded to the Sears Department Store at 302 Colorado Ave. regarding a 28-year-old Los Angeles woman who had been taken into custody by security agents for theft.

 Security personnel had watched on closed-circuit television as the subject took various items of clothing and entered a changing stall with them. When she left the stall, she did not have the clothes in her hand and a check of the stall by security personnel revealed that the items were not left in the stall. She was stopped outside the store after not paying for any items. She was found to have items belonging to the store in her purse. She was also wearing a pair of boots that belonged to the store; her old ones were found discarded in the boot box inside of the store. 

She was also found to have cocaine, methamphetamine, and a cocaine smoking pipe in her possession.