Devil in a Blue Shirt
WARNER AVE HUNTINGTON BEACH
THURS | OCT 16
A liquor store owner could scrounge no sympathy for the devil after a man wearing a demonic Halloween disguise came at him with a sawed-off shotgun. The HBPD reports the man made some quick demands for cash, and the store owner had no choice but [...]

Whizzinated!
MAIN ST SEAL BEACH
SAT | OCT 11
Hunger turned to righteous rage when a local mom and her two kids caught a couple of paramedics dining and drinking in a restaurant bar. According to the woman, she confronted the supposedly sloshed civic workers and chastised them for drinking on the job. Eventually, the Mother Against Drunk [...]

Pole Position
OCEAN BLVD 
LONG BEACH WED | SEPT 3
There were only a few ticks left till midnight, but it was just long enough for a young woman to be confronted with some beach-adjacent indecency. According to the woman, a man in his mid-20s (a thin guy in a Gap sweatshirt) approached her and, without much hesitation, [...]

Family Room
HOWARD AVE | LOS ALAMITOS
TUES AUG 19 12:52 AM
It was just after midnight when police received a frantic call from a mother who complained that her family had just been attacked and was being held hostage outside their home—by raccoons. Working off the premise that the animals simply had assumed the empty house was [...]

Fisherman’s War
EIGHTH ST | SEAL BEACH
FRI | AUG 15
Police received a terrifying tip just before 4 p.m.—a resident reported some serious concern after seeing an elementary school-aged child being held down in an alley by a couple of middle-aged women. According to the caller, the kid didn’t look to be in distress, but was also [...]

Can You Hear Me Now?
MAIN ST
SEAL BEACH
MON | JULY 25 3:30PM
The three main tenets of the Seal Beach Junior Lifeguards (safety, respect and camaraderie) were washed away Monday after two girls got locked in an argument. It’s unclear what initially motivated the incident, but the junior lifeguards took things too far when the spat turned [...]

Drawn and Quartered
UNKNOWN LOCATION 
LONG BEACH
THURS | JULY 17
It was barely breaking into the afternoon when a woman returned home to find that her apartment had been ransacked. The woman explained to police that she was expecting a handyman and had left a note outside to let him know that the door was unlocked. But she [...]

Wrestling Matched
CERRITOS TOWNE CENTER
CERRITOS
THURS JULY 10
In what may have been a glimpse into the chaos of a potentially petroleum-free future, a teen reported a narrow escape after a couple of men tried to rob him of his skateboard. Apparently looking for alternate modes of four-wheel transportation, the two men approached the kid in the Towne [...]

As the Crow Flies
TENTH ST
LONG BEACH
SUN JUNE 29 12:24PM
A 58-year-old woman reported a bit of a bleeding problem—she was supposedly suffering from a deep laceration on her head. According to the woman, her scalp was split the night before when her boyfriend reportedly hit her on the head with a pair of pliers. Nobody was [...]

Stolen Good
SEAL BEACH BLVD | SEAL BEACH
TUES | JUNE 17 10:06PM
A store manager thought he saw something fishy when he watched a woman finish up some last-minute shopping. The manager described the woman as heavyset and made sure to pass along the fact that she was wearing a loose brown shirt and blue sweatpants—apparently the [...]