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San Gabriel River bikeway north of Second Street. At 7:30 p.m., a suspect in a Seal Beach 215, known to some as carjacking, took off northbound into Long Beach, not in a jacked car but on a bike. Orange County sent up a chopper, local chopper and perimeter called off.

San Gabriel River bikeway. At 7:55 p.m., the 215 carjacking suspect was reported resting at the local 605/405 homeless encampment.

1700 block of Gundry Ave. A man walked near the Long Beach City College PCH campus at 11 a.m., began flashing gang signs while firing a gun into the air. One unoccupied vehicle was struck by the gunfire, evidence of which was covered by gang detectives. The man went away.

Aquarium Way. At 10:25 a.m., reports of a loose pit bull attacking people. More appropriately confined to Pit Bull Way or a local dog park.

Ocean Blvd. at Granada Avenue. At 11:30 p.m., according to police, a man took a woman’s cell phone. Bystanders came to her aid and “made attempts to detain the suspect, which resulted in a physical altercation” until officers arrived. Officers handcuffed the suspect without any physical resistance, but as he was in medical distress, immediately removed the handcuffs and “started rendering life saving measures.” Rescue personnel responded and pronounced Shawn Dunford, 41, deceased at the scene.

4901 E. Carson Street. At 11:15, a campus officer asked for animal control to deal with two skunks hanging out in the Long Beach City College quad. Animal control deferred, unless dead or posing a danger, the skunks that is. They will just go away. Perhaps leaving a marker that they were once there.

Convention Center. At 10 a.m., about three dozen pro-rent control protesters held “rent control now” signs, or variations thereof, and yelled slogans at arriving participants in an apartment owners confab at the center. No signs were injured in this gathering.

35th Street and Locust Avenue. Three suspected burglars entered a house tented for fumigation at 2:30 a.m. The homeowner was staying in front of the house in an RV saw the suspects on a security-camera system. Police were then called and officers surrounded the house and started ordering the burglars to come out. A juvenile surrendered and was taken to the hospital because of exposure to the fumigation chemicals. At 8 a.m., a SWAT team arrived and at 9:50 a.m., the SWAT team entered the home and with the help of a K-9, arrested the two other suspected burglars still inside, who were also taken to a hospital to be evaluated and treated for any injuries.

Westside. At 3:35 p.m., police spotted an older sedan containing a suspect with a no-bail warrant for weapons charges at Long Beach Blvd. and Tenth Street. Instead of pursuing the car, air support was called in to monitor. At 4:20 p.m., though no black and whites were seen behind the car, as it drove down side streets, on Willow Street, through alleyways, it never observed stop signs and made several illegal U-turns. At 14th Street east of Santa Fe Avenue, police deployed so-called “stop sticks,” a successful maneuver as in about five minutes, the right front tire flew off. The suspect turned down an alley, saw a cop car ahead of him, backed up, saw an undercover car behind him, lurched forward and made a left turn into a cross alley at the 300 block of West 14th Street and promptly collided with an approaching black and white SUV at 4:35 p.m., which ended his grand tour of the westside as residents peered over a balcony at the arrest.

Near the Spring Street Postal Annex. Overnight. “A newer grey car cover was stolen from my driveway,” said a poster on Nextdoor. “Car was locked, so nothing else was taken. Did not see nor hear anything. Not happy about having to purchase another one. I did file a police report using the online app. Sigh.” A responding poster turned it into a police staffing issue, to which the original poster said, “I posted this to make people aware of a local theft, not to attract soapboxers,” to which the responder said, “sorry you engage in name calling, and sorry you appear hostile to facts,” making it unclear how this helps to recover the car cover.

7100 block of El Paseo Street. In the early morning, low-budget film actor Stephen Beal, whose ex-girlfriend, Ildiko Krajnyak, 48, was killed in a package bomb explosion at her salon in Aliso Viejo on the previous Tuesday, was arrested by the FBI for possessing an unregistered explosive devices and several guns. A business partner in the salon with Krajnyak, Beal, 59, told agents he had constructed a small explosive “to assist with his neighbor’s gopher problem.” There’s precious little information as to how to register an explosive device, of which he had two. There were no charges filed in the connection to the bombing.

steve@beachcomber.news