Smash-&-grab thieves hit the Home Depot in Lakewood

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About eight masked thieves raided the tool aisle at the Home Depot near the Lakewood Mall Friday night, stealing sledgehammers, crowbars, and hammers, KCBS reports.

You're a Mean One Mr. Grinch:

The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department says a group of young men entered the Home Depot just before 8 p.m., located at 5000 block of Hardwick Street, comically across the street from the Lakewood Sheriff's Station.

• Home Depot employees told Fox 11 they saw 20 people arrive in up to ten cars, clothed in ski masks.

• The thieves fled in different directions, and one car was described as a red Mercedes-Benz.

Meanwhile, in Beverly Hills:

The Los Angeles Police Department placed the entire city under tactical alert after another smash and grab robbery occurred in afflount stores at Beverly Grove and stole several items.

• Six smash-and-grab robberies took place in the Fairfax District, Beverly Grove and Hancock Park on Black Friday.

LBPD: Woman stabbed by a relative during a family dispute

LBPD officers were sent to the 5700 block Orizaba Avenue at about 2:00 a.m. after a family disturbance became violent early Wednesday morning, per the LBP.

Details:

After police arrived at the scene, they came upon a woman with stab wounds in her upper body and were rushed to a nearby hospital for medical attention. Authorities are saying an altercation between a male and female relative intensified into a stabbing.

• The male relative fled on foot the scene before police arrived, and the police are still investigating the incident.

LBPD search for suspect vehicle in fatal hit-and-run

Long Beach police are asking for the public’s help to locate the suspect vehicle in a hit-and-run accident that happened on November 12th.

Details:

Police say the crash happened around 6:22 p.m. at Artesia Boulevard and Atlantic Avenue when a dark Toyota Camry struck a 72-year-old man.

• The victim was transported to a nearby hospital, where he later died from his injuries.

• Police have identified the victim as 72-year-old Long Beach resident David Bermudez.

• LBPD is still searching for the driver.