By Daily Press staff
■Kevin Donell Flowers was arrested Friday, July 5 for threatening a man on the Third Street Promenade with a knife.
The victim was sleeping on the 1200 block of the Promenade at 2:30 a.m. when Flowers woke him, flashed his folding knife and demanded the man’s money. The victim refused to give over his money so Flowers fled the scene. The victim called police immediately.
Santa Monica Police arrested Flowers, a 33-year old resident of Venice Beach, and because he violated his probation, no bail was set. ■Robert Ramos was arrested Tuesday, July 2 after he punched a man and threatened him with a knife.
After a shower, the victim returned to his makeshift camp in the alley of the 1500 block of 14th Street and found Ramos lying on his bedding. The victim told Ramos to leave, and Ramos punched the victim in the face, pulled a knife, and fled.
At roughly 7:48 a.m. the same morning, Santa Monica Police arrested Ramos, a 24-year old transient. ■A man passing on a bike touched a woman’s buttock as she walked down the sidewalk at 10:22 a.m. on Monday, July 1.
The woman was walking on the 300 block of Colorado Avenue when she was sexually assaulted.
The assailant was described as a thin Black man of undetermined age, wearing a dark jacket and a light brown bandana or rag on his head. He was riding a dark colored mountain bike.
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on July 15, 2002. Read the original PDF.