Drugs and Alcohol: July 2008 Archives
Police and agents from the state Alcoholic Beverage Control visited 23 businesses in the city on July 22, sending in an underage decoy to try to buy alcohol.
Here's the ones who need to check for IDs next time:
- 7-Eleven, 100 W. Imperial Ave.
- Rite Aid, 220 E. Grand Ave.
- La Sirena Grill, 710 Allied Way
Three workers at those business were given citations. The business owners could face sanctions later.
These businesses did not sell alcohol to the minors:
- Chevron Gas Station, 601 Vista del Mar
- Hollymain Liquor, 404 Main St.
- Su Casa, 403 Main St.
- Tavern on Main, 123 Main St.
- Richmond Bar & Grill, 145 Richmond St.
- Purple Orchid, 221 Richmond St.
- Old Town Patio, 115 Richmond St.
- Cooke's Market, 121 West Grand Ave.
- Office Downtown, 206 East Grand Ave.
- Embassy Suites, 1440 East Imperial Ave.
- Village Liquor, 506 Center St.
- Hacienda Hotel, 525 N. Sepulveda Blvd.
- Chile Verde, 630 N. Sepulveda Blvd.
- Leonard's Liquor Store, 630 N. Sepulveda Blvd.
- Sizzler Restaurant, 600 N. Sepulveda Blvd.
- Stick & Stein, 707 N. Sepulveda Blvd.
- Teresa's Mosaic Cafe, 150 S. Sepulveda Blvd.
- Cozymel's Mexican Grill, 2171 Rosecrans Ave.
- Daily Grill, 2121 Rosecrans Ave.
- Marmalade Café, 2014 Park Place
The Fresno news crew tagging along with police this weekend hit the jackpot on a call to a local casino where a man was in custody for trying to bet weed. He had a medicinal marijuana card, but was carrying waaaaaaaay more than the law allows. I'm curious what his hand looked like, and pretty certain he wasn't playing with a full deck.
Capt. Don Schwartzer, commanding officer, of the Los Angeles Police Department's South Traffic Division writes:
Dear Mr. Altman:
I wanted to thank you and the Daily Breeze for the very generous coverage you offered one of our unsolved hit and run fatal collisions. Your article was very detailed and thoughtfully prepared to hit all of the pertinent facts of this case from 1992 where Fred and Ezna Crescitelli were fatally injured while crossing the street in San Pedro.
We appreciate this partnership and assistance. Thank you.
Chris Delgado writes:
Mr. Altman,
How much is the Lennox station paying you to drag this poor victim and his family's name through the mud? Your story does nothing to present both sides. The people in the comments area seem to know a lot more than you do and should have your job, or you have a biased point of view and are trying to protect the cops from public opinion. The headline should read "Unarmed Man Gunned Down in his Own Driveway By Police while Sitting in his Car not Bothering Anyone."
7-16-08 (Wednesday):
At approximately 6 p.m., officers responded to the 2400 block of Hadley Lane regarding a possible drunk driver. Officers learned that witnesses watched a blue Dodge Durango pull away from the curb, knock down a fence across the street, then back into a utility pole. The driver pulled away from the pole, traveled east on Hadley Lane and ran head-first into another utility pole. The witnesses detained the driver and called the police. Investigating officers subsequently arrested the driver for driving under the influence and driving on a suspended license.
7-19-08 (Saturday):
Officers responded to numerous complaints of broken windows to cars that were parked in North Redondo over night. More than a dozen windows were broken on several different vehicles sometime during the previous evening. Evidence was collected at a couple of the crime scenes and the investigation is ongoing.
At 9:09 p.m., officers responded to the report of an injury collision at the intersection of Pacific Coast Highway and Diamond Street. Responding officer located one of the drivers, who was riding a motorcyle, pinned underneath the other vehicle involved in the collision. The preliminary investigation revealed that the motorcyclist was traveling N/B PCH and collided with a vehicle that negotiating a left turn from S/B PCH to E/B Diamond Street. The motorcyclist was dragged under the vehicle for approximately fifty feet before the car came to a stop.
The rider of the motorcycle was transported to Harbor General Hospital for treatment, The driver of the car was ultimately arrested for driving under the influence.
The violence at The Crimsin, 345 W. Sixth St., occurred about midnight
in front of the bar, Los Angeles police Lt. Mark Tappan of the Harbor Station
told a Newsreel camera crew.
Several people attacked the officer and, just as the fight was breaking up, someone lunged at the officer with a knife, Tappan said.
The officer was taken to County Harbor-UCLA Medical Center with internal
injuries and was said to have stable vital signs, the lieutenant said. Police
would not say who he was or where he worked.
Two suspects were taken into custody following the attack, Tappan said,
but additional suspects were still at large.
From City News Service
Hermosa Beach reporter Andrea Woodhouse writes today that the Hermosa Beach Planning Commission has slapped two popular bars with an earlier curfew and other restrictions. The move is in response the number of police calls that are made at the Pier Plaza establishments for rowdy, drunken craziness.
It's a controversial decision, with bar owners and patrons on one side defending the right to party up against residents in the increasingly yuppified and family-oriented area who are fed up with the throw up.
300 block of North Pacific Coast Highway (between Diamond/Carnelian intersections on State Route 1:
Approximately 8:00 p.m., a pedestrian, crossing mid block (east to west), across North Pacific Coast Highway, was struck by an oncoming vehicle traveling north in the number two (2) lane of travel. The pedestrian (unidentified male adult) suffered serious head injury and trauma. The pedestrian was transported to County Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. As of this report date, he remains in a coma.
2300 block of Artesia Boulevard:
Approximately 9:30 p.m., officers observed an adult with an eighteen-month year old child. The child was dirty and chewing on what appeared to be a tobacco cigarette. An uninvolved party reported the same. Officers contacted the adult and ascertained the subject did not possess the means or sustenance to properly care for the child. The subject was subsequently arrested for the investigation of child endangerment. The child was transferred to the custody and care of the Department of Children Family Services (DCFS).
1800 block of South Pacific Coast Highway:
Approximately 11:40 p.m., officers responded to the vicinity regarding a "check the welfare." The officers' tenacious and caring efforts resulted in the location of a subject, who was on the ground, shivering, with little or no movement. Quick thinking on the officers' part netted recognition of medication problems. Paramedics were summoned, and the subject was transported to Little Company of Mary Hospital. Subject was treated without lasting complications.
It operated from 7:30 p.m. to 2 a.m. Saturday at Catalina Avenue between Diamond and Emerald streets:
- 1,415 vehicles and drivers checked
- 4 arrests for driving under the influence
- 26 citations issued
- 9 vehicles impounded
These agencies assisted them in the busts:
Gardena Police Department
Redondo Beach Police Department
LAPD Harbor Division
LAPD Gun Detail
LAPD Organized Crime Unit
LASD Carson station
LA IMPACT
Long Beach Police Department narcotics unit
LA County District Attorney's Office major narcotics unit
LA County Probation department
LA County Department of Children and Family Services
California Department of Corrections -- state parole
Southern California Edison Loss Prevention Unit (for indoor marijuana grows)
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Federal Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives
Federal Drug Enforcement Administration
FBI Gang Task Force and Joint Terrorism Task Force
U.S. Postal Inspection Service
Brandon Pettway, who listed his occupation as high school coach when he was arrested in April, was in court today for arraignment on five felony counts. The former star wide receiver who graduated Gardena High School in 2000, then reportedly went on to coach there, is charged with two counts of sale or transportation of marijuana, possession of marijuana for sale, possession of cocaine base for sale - with a special allegation of criminal activity near a school (Purche Elementary), and possession of a firearm by a felon.
Pettway, 26, has a prior conviction for a 2001 robbery.
He's supposed to be arraigned somtime today in Torrance Superior Court. We'll have a full report in tomorrow's Daily Breeze.
Police will conduct a driving under the influence checkpoint from 6 p.m. tonight to 2 a.m. Saturday on Catalina Avenue between Diamond and Garnet streets in Redondo Beach.
Monday 06/30
08:45 - RBPD Patrol responded to a report of a burglary-in-progress in the 1700 block of Marshallfield Ln. Investigation revealed that the ex-girlfriend of the victim resident had made entry via a window and took several items she claimed belonged to her, and then fled the scene. The victim's wife was at home and called the police. Officers observed the ex-girlfriend leaving the area in her vehicle and detained her. She was subsequently booked at RBPD for burglary.
13:36 - A 25 year old suspect was at his 71 year old grandmother's residence in the 2300 block of 190th. Suspect demanded her ATM card and when she refused to give it to him, he struck her with his fist, knocking her unconscious, to the ground. Suspect fled but was located by RBPD Patrol at Lilienthal Parkette. He was arrested and booked for assault and Elder Abuse.
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Larry Altman has covered crime in the South Bay since 1990. He's seen it all - the missing model who turned up dead in the desert, the wives found dead in trunks, the high-school coaches who get a little too close to their players. He drives his young colleagues nuts with his "I remember when" stories. He welcomes your tips and observations about the present, and you can mix in a little Lakers basketball talk if you like.
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