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# Crime watch: Bad Gas
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/crime-watch-bad-gas/
- Published: 2022-10-17T20:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2024-12-04T15:06:49.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Crime, CRIME WATCH, News, crime watch news, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2025-11-06 12:28

Crime Watch is culled from reports provided by the Santa Monica Police Department. These are arrests only. All parties are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.

**On Saturday, October 1**

Officers responded to Chevron Gas at 1330 Santa Monica Blvd regarding a battery that had just occurred. Fire/PD Dispatchers relayed that an employee at the location had been hit in the face after refusing service to a male, later identified as Jesse Ruiz. Based on the description provided Ruiz was located and detained near the 1600 block of Colorado. Ruiz was found to be in possession of a wallet along with a keyfob for a vehicle belonging to someone else and remains in police custody.