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# Homeless suspect refuses to leave hotel room at Ocean Park Inn
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/homeless-suspect-refuses-to-leave-hotel-room-at-ocean-park-inn/
- Published: 2016-05-26T13:01:50.000Z
- Updated: 2024-12-03T21:46:17.000Z
- Author: Editor
- Tags: Crime, News, California, city of santa monica, Los Angeles, Santa Monica, santa monica california, santa monica news, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2025-11-06 14:39

On May 21, 2016 at about 11:09 a.m.

Officers responded to a radio call for service of a subject refusing to leave a hotel room at the Ocean Park Inn, 2452 Lincoln Blvd. Officers determined the suspect, Charles Howard Parker, 51, homeless, entered a vacant room without permission or payment. Parker was contacted by hotel staff and asked to leave. He refused to leave and remained in the room. The hotel requested a private person's arrest. The suspect was taken into custody and later issued a citation for defrauding an innkeeper.

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