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2900 block of Pacific Coast Hwy. At 5:27 p.m., an SUV crashed into a building. One child in the vehicle was uninjured, one driver was arrested for DUI. No other injuries.

710 Freeway at 405 Freeway. At 2:03 a.m., CHP officers “initiated an enforcement stop on a Lexus ES300 for excessive speed” on the southbound 710. After a brief pursuit, the driver veered off the transition road, turned over into a tree, killing the 19-year-old Wilmington driver, injuring the passenger.

500 block of Elm Ave. At 4:15 p.m., police seized five guns, ammunition and drugs from 55-year-old Spencer Anderson, a convicted felon for illegal possession of a firearm and making verbal threats to a man. Bail: $50,000.

Lewis Ave. and 11th St. At 2 p.m., a driver “down” inside a pickup backed into a police cruiser, then hid on a nearby roof of a residence. Came a pursuit, an arrest, a trip to a hospital for a check-up.

1100 block of South St. At 10:34 p.m., a male juvenile who shot into a residence, fled.

14th Street and Pacific Ave. At 1:50 a.m., a man shot in his lower body was found at the 1400 block of Chestnut Avenue.

Willow St. and Easy Ave. At 2:30 a.m., a car pulled up alongside a driver, fired a gunshot, fled.

Long Beach. At 4:22 a.m., a man entered a hospital with a non-life-threatening gunshot wound to the lower body, but could not recall how he got that way. With that information, no crime scene was located and no other injuries were reported.

Studebaker Rd. at Keynote St. At 3 p.m., the driver of black car parked it, then approached a boy and girl on a bus bench, assaulted and robbed the girl of her necklace, the boy ran off. The driver fled west on Keynote Street. Police said a similar event occurred weeks ago at a Los Coyotes Diagonal bus stop in the same neighborhood.

Walnut Ave. and Sunshine Ct. At 12:01 a.m., a man walked by another man, then stabbed him in non-life-threatening way to the lower body, reason or identity not known.

4700 block of Pepperwood. At 4:30 p.m., a male with a paint ball gun in a black Lexus shot his balls at a bicyclist, whom he knocked off and left his shards.

2000 block of Pasadena Ave. At 8:03 p.m., a man in his vehicle was speaking to another man who shot him in a non-life-threatening way in the upper body. The victim was uncooperative with police.

Los Angeles River and 405 Fwy. At 8:07 p.m., a man in his tent was speaking to another man who shot him in a non-life-threatening way.

Pasadena Ave. at 20th St. At 9:19 p.m., a gunshot; that is all.

4400 block of Whitewood Ave. At 8:32 p.m., LAPD Harbor Division detectives served a search warrant, arresting Blanca Gudino, 39, of Lawndale, and 71-year-old Richard Siegel for thefts of about $100,000 of LEGO collectibles from April 3 to June 1 at Riverside, Ontario, Whittier, Costa Mesa, San Pedro, Lakewood, Torrance and Irvine retailers. A neighbor “saw maybe 20 cops wheeling out piles of LEGO kits. When walked by, there were maybe 500 boxes stacked up on the driveway and more dollies stacked to the top coming out in droves.” Detectives recovered more than 2,800 boxes of LEGO toys. Siegel was arrested for retail theft and Gudino was arrested for grand theft because the goal was allegedly online sales, not to play with the world’s biggest and best LEGO collection.

100 block of W. Artesia Blvd. At 12:50 a.m., two men argued over auto tampering. As the suspected tamper fled, he shot at the victims. No one was hit or injured. An hour and half later, officers located and arrested the suspect on the 6600 block of Long Beach Boulevard near the scene of the shooting.  A loaded firearm was recovered. 

Long Beach Convention Center. At 11:52 a.m., a man attending the three-day Long Beach Expo opened a faulty display cover to steal a 27-ounce gold nugget from a 1849 Yolo River find, priced at $82,000. A $10,000 reward is offered.

Ocean and Elm. At midnight, a random window breaker began by doing his thing with 15 windshields, moving to Linden and Broadway to do the same breakage thing with 13 business windows as far north as Fourth Street. After “multiple reports of vandalism involving smashed windows,” police arrested and unnamed suspect Friday afternoon.

20th Street and Pacific Ave. At 6:05 p.m., police found a prohibited possessor holding a firearm during a traffic stop, an arrest ensued.

Pacific Coast Hwy. and Molino Ave. At 2:26 a.m., an eastbound vehicle struck a northbound pedestrian outside of a crosswalk, then left. Then the pedestrian was struck by a 2017 Kia Sportage, the driver remaining on scene and calling 9-1-1. Then a white truck hit the victim, dragging him east of Molino Avenue and fled.