Catfight
14TH ST
SEAL BEACH
WED AUG 26
A couple of neighbors got into a catfight Wednesday when the noise from one woman’s apartment seeped through the complex’s paper-thin walls. The woman’s 40-year-old male neighbor couldn’t take it and began shouting at the woman from outside her window. According to her, the man was incensed because his child was [...]

The Dean
SEAL BEACH BLVD
SEAL BEACH SUN AUG 19
It was a few strokes before midnight when police received a report of a suspicious man in an even more suspicious white van. The witness claimed that the man to tried gain access to a rear gated lot, but couldn’t crack the passcode and was turned away. The [...]

ANCHOR WAY SEAL BEACH
WED JULY 29
A Seal Beach woman suspected that her new job might be too good to be true after she grew skeptical of her first paycheck. Upwards of $2,500, the check was allegedly for her services as a secret shopper at a local store. Unsure that her shopping skills could be so [...]

VARIOUS LOCATIONS
LONG BEACH AND SEAL BEACH
In these dog days of leisure, an afternoon under the summer sun inevitably seems to turn into a night spent with a beer or five. Consumed in the right confines, that’s not necessarily a bad decision. But more often than not, summer drunkenness spills out onto the streets, a fact [...]

Baywatched
OCEAN AVE | SEAL BEACH
MON | JUNE 8
Beach police received a call in the middle of a Monday afternoon about trouble at a lifeguard tower. According to the witness, four young women in bikinis were trying to pick the lock on the tower. Unable to put their beach bunny powers to work, the women instead [...]

Con Carne
E 68TH ST
LONG BEACH
TUES | MAY 19
Police alerted business owners to a troubling trend: a meat-swindling scam sweeping through North Long Beach. According to one victim, the ordeal began when a man approached him in a parking lot with the promise of “several thousand pounds of overstock meat.” The meat-monger said he needed to [...]

Pennywise
STUDEBAKER RD
LONG BEACH
FRI | MAY 8
Police received a mid-morning call Friday about a middle-aged man trudging strangely down the street. According to the caller, the man—dressed in a white button-down shirt, khaki pants and a tie—appeared confused and disoriented. Stranded far away from what must’ve been his usual business environs, the man seemed out of [...]

Old Yeller
WHITTIER BLVD | WHITTIER
THURS | APRIL 30
The recession’s reach appeared unending as an early-morning scuffle erupted over the fleeting promise of a job. It began with a self-employed contractor who was finishing up at a local restaurant, when he was approached by an intoxicated woman asking about employment opportunities for her husband. When the [...]

GALLEON WAY SEAL BEACH
FRI | APRIL 17
A woman woke Friday morning to find that her silver Mercedes had apparently been broken into. There wasn’t any visible damage to her family wagon, however—the thief only swiped her garage-door opener, which was then used to get inside the garage and poke around a second Mercedes belonging [...]

Super Sucker
MARINA DR LONG BEACH
TUES MARCH 24
Faced with the ever-growing reality of economic collapse, police received an increasingly common call Tuesday afternoon about a homeless man living near a residence. The man hadn’t been a nuisance and wouldn’t have raised any red flags were it not for a piece of property that he left behind: [...]