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Here's the press release from Manhattan Beach PD on what happened today at Target:

Date of Crime Aug. 25, 2008

Location: Target Store, 1200 N. Sepulveda Blvd., Manhattan Beach

Suspect: Unknown Female Caller

On Monday, Aug. 25, 2008 at 1:36 p.m., an unknown female caller called the Target Store located at 1200 N. Sepulveda Blvd., Manhattan Beach and told an employee there was a bomb in the building.

Manhattan Beach police responded and contacted the store manager, who pursuant to company policy requested the store be evacuated. Customers and employees were evacuated from the building and surrounding area.

A search of the store was conducted by store employees and Manhattan Beach police, however no bombs or suspicious packages were found.

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Police have ordered everybody out of the Target store on Sepulveda Boulevard in Manhattan Beach.

Apparently, there's a bomb threat. At this point, we have no real information on whether it's a phone threat or an actual bomb or just some suspicious package.

Sounds like a good place to stay away from for a while.

We'll update later.

Here's the update: It's all over and nothing exploded. Still don't really know what happened, but police surrounded the place and kept everybody out. We'll try to get more.

Q. Hi Larry. Last Wednesday (June 4) around 9 a.m., two women were handcuffed by Torrance police outside the Target in Torrance. I was just wondering what, if any, were they arrested for. I also noticed that these the same women were being followed by a man inside Target. I didn't put anything to it at the time.

Thank you and keep up the good work.

Mario Oliveros III

A. Shoplifting. The man following the women inside the store was a loss prevention officer. Police were called to the store and arrested the women on suspicion of petty theft.

Richard Robledo, 51, of Lakewood walked out of a Target store in Redondo Beach last summer with $400 worth of Gillette Fusion razor blades in his pockets. Now, let's face it, those blades are expensive, but you still gotta pay for them.

So when store security guards confronted him, he wrestled with them, pulled a gun and ran. The gun wasn't real, but the guards didn't know that.

Robledo broke into a house north of the store on Kingsdale Avenue, and hid in a closet while police searched for him outside. It might have seemed like a good idea at the time, but Robledo had no idea who lived there.

That would be plumber Tony Cardoza, a 73-year-old Korean War veteran who arrived home from a job. He heard a noise, looked in his closet and was shocked to find Robledo. Cardoza yanked him from the closet, and twisted him around by the head. Robledo threatened to kill him and jabbed him in the ribs with a gun. That gun was indeed real.

It was a handgun Cardoza used during the war and kept in the closet.

Robledo ran out of the house, but was quickly arrested outside.

Robledo pleaded guilty last month to robbery, grand theft and making criminal threats. Today, Torrance Superior Court Judge James Brandlin sentenced him to 19 years in prison.