Officer-initiated activity climbs to 53% of responses; year-to-date arrests up 72% over 2025
Santa Monica police responded to 2,652 calls for service and made 98 arrests
Prosecutors in the federal trial of the man accused of sparking last year's deadly Palisades Fire laid out a narrative for jurors Wednesday of a premeditated arsonist who
A motorcyclist remained in critical condition Thursday after her motorcycle struck a raised median separating a protected bike lane from the vehicle travel lane on Broadway in downtown Santa Monica.
Four people under the age of 21 were arrested on drug and weapons charges after Santa Monica police officers conducting a patrol discovered open containers of alcohol, marijuana and a
A man died Friday morning in an apartment fire near Ocean Park Blvd.
The Santa Monica Fire Department responded to a structure fire on the 2600 block of 5th Street
A man accused of a racially motivated rampage that ended in a downtown homeless encampment and left one victim permanently disabled will face trial after the state’s highest court
A 49-year-old Illinois man was charged Wednesday with criminal threats and battery after allegedly stopping his vehicle near the Third Street Promenade, chasing a pedestrian and commanding his
A Culver City restaurateur who owns a hospitality company with restaurants and hotels in California, Tennessee and Kentucky was sentenced Tuesday to 41 months in federal prison for fraudulently obtaining
A Culver City man employed by a nonprofit syringe distribution organization was arrested Thursday on a federal complaint alleging he possessed fentanyl when officers pulled him over near MacArthur Park
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A man was arrested Sunday after allegedly threatening two pedestrians with a baseball bat and unleashing a dog
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Santa Monica police arrested a Los Angeles man on suspicion of kidnapping, rape and other charges following a pursuit that ended in an officer-involved shooting early Monday morning.
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