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Loma Ave at 17th St.: LBPD arests a man reported to be waving a gun in the air (fed from area of Grand Ave./17th St., officers used a Taser to take him into custody.) 

405 freeway/Spring St. (Signal Hill) 2 p.m. hour encampment fire.  LA County Fire quashed the flames.

LB Airport: Shortly before noon Lear jet inbound from Albuquerque reported tire problem but landed safely with seven persons aboard (no injuries.) Plane landed on main diagonal runway 30/12, which was closed temporarily until the tire was changed and plane removed.

College Park area: Two bikes stolen from home between midnight-3 a.m. Thief ignored large bolted gate, apparently climbed a cement wall. Stolen bikes are “Beach Cruisers.” One is bluish-teal with bright pink basket, the other coral/peach with Hawaiian flowers.

Pike commercial area, violence and gunfire (no persons hit). LBPD deployed resources after receiving information regarding plans for a large group gathering. At about 5 p.m., an officer observed “a large fight” taking place (area Bay Street/Aquarium Way) and subsequently learned a suspect had pistol-whipped a victim (both fled before officers arrived.) (Officers later contacted a juvenile victim who self-admitted to an out-of-city hospital for a blunt force trauma injury.) .While police investigated that incident, they heard what they believed were gunshots fired east of their location and subsequently found evidence of a shooting (bullet casings) in the area of Pine Ave./E. Shoreline Dr. No victims found in the shooting. LBPD says it’s unclear if the no-person-hit shooting and earlier fight are related.

Nature Center fire (this time just west of the San Gabriel River bike path between Willow and Spring Streets. The LB Accountability Action Group comments: “City leaders have been warned numerous times about the homeless on the river and their propensity to start fires in the adjoining Nature Center. Eventually there is going to be a fire that wipes out the Nature Center or does serious damage. That will happen as long as the status quo is allowed to exist and political correctness reigns supreme.”

700 Queensway Dr. (address of Hotel Maya). LBPD says a man was shot/wounded by three men (adults) who robbed him shot him and fled the area in a white sedan. LBPD says crime scene was in the area of a walkway and grassy area between walkway and rocks that line the shore (i.e. it wasn’t in the hotel parking lot.)

Bill Pearl publishes LBReport.com, an online local news source since August 2000.