> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.smdp.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Burglaries and robberies top week of crime - URL: https://www.smdp.com/burglaries-and-robberies-top-week-of-crime/ - Published: 2002-10-12T15:00:00.000Z - Updated: 2026-10-23T00:47:14.000Z - Author: Guest Author - Tags: Opinion, Main St, #archive-import, Homeless *By Daily Press staff* Jeffery Scott Kessler was arrested for strong armed robbery on Sept. 29 after stealing a few cans of beer from Star Liquor at 2500 Main Street, according to police. At 5:15 p.m. Kessler allegedly entered the store, and an employee watched him walk to the cooler and put a few cans of beer in his pocket. Kessler then approached the counter, put a couple beers on the counter and said he couldn’t pay for them when the employee asked for money, police said. Kessler left the cans on the counter and began to exit, and the employee confronted him about the beer in his pocket. Kessler allegedly threatened to harm the employee if he came any closer, then fled the store. Santa Monica police arrested him shortly after. Kessler is a 36-year-old white male. A man with a handgun robbed a store at 2600 Main Street on Friday, Sept. 27. The suspect entered the store at 7:26 p.m., showed a handgun to an employee and demanded the money from the cash register. The employee complied, and the suspect fled from the store with the money, police said. The suspect was last scene on Main Street, and he is described as a black male between 20 and 30 years old, five feet, 10 inches tall, 180 pounds and wearing a dark gray shirt with a number on it. A homeless man was robbed and slashed in the face by assailants armed with a box cutter on Sept. 26, police said. At 11:32 p.m. the victim was sleeping near 701 Wilshire Boulevard when two men woke him up and demanded his money. One of the robbers carried a box cutter. The victim had no money. The suspect with the box cutter slashed a three-inch cut into the left side of the victim’s face. The suspect with the box cutter is a Hispanic male, five feet, seven inches tall with dark hair and eyes and was wearing a dark jacket and dark pants. The second suspect is a male Hispanic, five feet, 11 inches tall with dark hair and eyes, and wearing dark pants and jacket. The victim was treated for a superficial face laceration at a local hospital, and released that night. Anthony Loren Janis and Todd Davenport were arrested for attempted car burglary on Monday, Sept. 23. A witness watched Janis and Davenport walk along the 100 block of Pacific Avenue at about 9:10 p.m. lifting up door handles of parked cars. When they opened the door of a Jeep Cherokee and entered the vehicle, the witness called police. Janis and Davenport fled the scene, but Santa Monica police stopped them soon afterward. A preliminary investigation of the Jeep indicated there was an attempted robbery, so Janis and Davenport were arrested, police said. Janis, a 24-year-old White male transient, was held without bail because he violated his felony probation. Davenport, a 23-year-old white male transient, was held with bail set at $20,000. *Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on October 12, 2002.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/101202.pdf?ref=smdp.com)