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Steve Propes

Thursday, March 8

Wardlow Road and Atlantic Avenue. At 5:30 p.m. a 2017 Toyota being driven north by a 23-year-old Long Beach woman turned left onto Wardlow Road when it was hit by a southbound 2017 Honda Accord, driven by a 30-year-old Long Beach woman. The collision sent the Honda into the retaining wall and struck Jack Ferguson, 58. Those nearby said the man they knew as Jack regularly spent time on that same street corner for the past several years.

Saturday, March 10

CSULB Parking Lot G7. At 10:34 a.m., a woman reported the grand theft of her parked white 2008 Acura MDX. According to the Daily 49er, campus police said, “the reporting party’s father took the vehicle to ‘teach his daughter a lesson.’ The report was removed from the system after the realization that the vehicle was not stolen, her dad simply took it when she was unaware.” What the lesson was or whether she learned it were not contained in the report, notwithstanding an apparently unintended false police report.

Sunday, March 11

CSULB  Quad. According to the Daily 49er, after unloading merchandise from her vehicle, a vendor at the Annual Pow Wow and Outreach left to park her car. When she returned, she called police as merchandise had been stolen from her between 8:40 a.m. and 9 a.m. “A person or persons unknown took $1,900 of Native American style sterling silver jewelry, which included earrings, bracelets, bolo ties and two dolls,” the police report said. “There was an 18 by 24 inch wooden display case and four Native American style shawls. One turquoise and one pink and one beige and one rusty orange.” The story said, “She asked officers to make an announcement addressing the theft at the Pow Wow, but said that they did not end up doing so.”

Monday, March 12

Fourth Street and Orizaba Avenue. A pickup truck hauling pool-cleaning supplies overturned in a collision at 11:45 a.m., causing the release of fumes from several gallons of chlorine and other chemicals and knocking over light poles, which might well have been an extreme electrical hazard. People were advised to stay out of a downwind situation, lest they expire before the chemicals did.

Pine Avenue and Pacific Coast Highway. At 2:50 p.m. a group of people opened fire on someone but missed, according to authorities. Police shut down the neighborhood and arrested two people that the victim said were part of the shooter’s group, with investigators trying to determine a motive for the shooting.

Pacific Coast Highway and Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue. At 4 p.m., a man was wounded by gunshots in the upper body and was taken to a local hospital. Police said the shooting may have been gang-related.

1300 block of Wesley Drive. A man was shot in upper body at 4:30 p.m. just north of Long Beach City College’s Pacific Coast Campus. He was taken a hospital. Investigators believed it may also be gang-related.

Wednesday, March 14.

CSULB University Library. At 5:37 p.m., a man in a wheelchair was using a bullhorn to shout at students in front of the library. Police said, “We went up there and assisted. I can only presume that the officers talked to this individual and got him to stop yelling at people with his bullhorn.” Left undocumented was the reason or subject matter for his shouting.

Thursday, March 15

Fourth Street and Obispo Avenue. A case of wrecking one’s own car with one’s own car, apparently happened at 4 p.m., when a woman smashed her own car into her own car driven by a male at Seventh Street and Walnut Avenue. Then the scene switched to Fourth and Obispo, which the male left at a high rate of speed, returning to the original scene where he found himself in handcuffs. Woman’s fate undetermined.

Friday, March 16

Eastbound Los Coyotes Diagonal north of the Outer Traffic Circle. At 6:55 p.m., the driver of a 2017 Maserati Quattroporte lost control in an high speed attempt at a left turn onto the diagonal, shearing a tree in half, leaving wreckage sitting in front of the In-N-Out Burger building. Though he was wearing a seat belt, the Maserati’s driver, a 54-year-old Long Beach resident, was thrown from the car. A passenger, also in a seat belt, Joseph Testone Jr., 42, a Buena Park resident with a home address in Idaho, was still in the car, but died at the scene. A NextDoor poster, who stopped to help, wrote, “a pulse was felt at first so we thought he was alive for a moment. The other guy flew out into the middle of street and is in critical condition.” A second NextDoor posting said the Maserati was speeding on Temple Avenue just prior to the crash. Authorities suspect alcohol may have been a factor in the crash.

steve@beachcomber.news

 

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