Crime
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Police release sketches of assault suspects
PUBLIC SAFETY FACILITY — Santa Monica police have released sketches of two people wanted for questioning in connection with an...
Read moreDrugs, shoplifting keep cops busy
Crime Watch is a weekly series culled from reports provided by the Santa Monica Police Department. These are arrests only....
Read moreArrests made in series of robberies
PUBLIC SAFETY FACILITY — Santa Monica police officers, with the help of the Los Angeles Police Department, apprehended three men...
Read moreNew sentencing date set in Juarez murder trial
DOWNTOWN L.A. — Family members of Michael and Anthony Juarez, brothers who were brutally shot and killed more than a...
Read moreTeen pipe bomb suspect pleads not guilty
DOWNTOWN L.A. — The 17-year-old Santa Monica resident who allegedly built two bombs in his Mid-City apartment plead not guilty...
Read moreDUI checkpoint planned for Friday
PUBLIC SAFETY FACILITY — If you plan on hitting up happy hour Friday you better sober up before getting behind...
Read morePlea in whale meat case postponed
DOWNTOWN L.A. — A Gardena seafood dealer who sold endangered whale meat to The Hump in Santa Monica and other...
Read moreTransient pleads not guilty in synagogue blast
DOWNTOWN L.A. — A homeless man pleaded not guilty to charges he set off a homemade bomb near a Santa...
Read moreSeafood dealer to plead guilty in whale meat case
DOWNTOWN L.A. — A Gardena seafood dealer who imported endangered whale meat from Tokyo and sold it to Santa Monica...
Read moreShop ‘til you drop dead
Crime Watch is a weekly series culled from reports provided by the Santa Monica Police Department. These are arrests only....
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