On January 10, at about 4:30 a.m.
Officers responded to the rear of the Santa Monica Main Library – 601 Santa Monica Blvd regarding a complaint from library staff of a group of people camping overnight. Officers contacted a female subject and attempted to identify her to be issued a citation. The subject refused to identify herself and was uncooperative. Officers were unable to identify her and placed her under arrest for a municipal code violation. At the SMPD Jail, the suspect was uncooperative and combative. As the suspect was being searched, the suspect elbowed a Jailer in the chest. The Jailer was not injured.
Alice Penlope Gumulski, 21, from North Carolina, was arrested for battery of jail staff.
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on January 24, 2017. Read the original PDF.