Men grabbing women tops week’s crime
An apparent dispute between a man and woman on March 3 led to what police are calling a carjacking after the girlfriend stole her boyfriend’s car.
Police say at 11:50 a.m. the victim called officers to his home near the 1400 block of Lincoln Boulevard. He told police he met an acquaintance at a party in East Los Angeles. He brought her to his home and the next morning, she asked for a ride home. The victim said he would drive her back to East Los Angeles shortly but before he could do that, she approached the victim from behind and placed an unknown object in his back and demanded the car. The female, 17, drove away with the white Acura Legend. It was recovered that same day in Pico Rivera.
• Police are classifying a transient who grabbed a woman’s breast on March 8 in the 1500 block of Second Street as a sexual assault.
• A woman was forced into her ex-boyfriend’s car at the intersection of Second Street and Broadway Avenue and taken to the 600 block Adelaide Drive.
At 8:05 p.m. on March 8, officers responded to a call of a woman being forced into a vehicle. While in route, officers got a second call from a resident on Adelaide Drive who reported a female yelling for help.
Officers determined the vehicle matched the description involved in the first incident and contacted the victim, who confirmed she was forced into the car. She said the suspect was her ex-boyfriend who has been continuously following her.
The suspect, Douglas Emerick, 25, of Tarzana, was booked for kidnapping, stalking and violating his probation. His bail is set at $150,000.
• On March 7 a teenager and her mother reported that the girl had encountered a man four days earlier who touched her butt.
The victim told police that at 9 a.m. on March 3 she was in the 2600 block of Main Street when the suspect approached her and her friend. He “padded” her butt and then fled on foot. He is described as a male white in his 30s and is five feet, three inches tall.
• Two men received a citation for possessing less than an ounce of marijuana after police found them smoking a joint on March 9 at 10:50 a.m. in the 1600 block of Ocean Front Walk. The marijuana was confiscated.
• Just minutes before at the same location, police responded to complaint of people drinking alcohol. Police contacted the subjects and took one of them, identified as Ivy Daigle, 31, into custody after the learned that he was a parolee on a burglary charge. He was transported to the Los Angeles County men’s jail.
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on March 25, 2002. Read the original PDF.