A 35-year-old man caught sleeping in Palisades Park shrubbery was arrested Thursday, Nov. 15 for resisting officers and damaging the shrub.
At 7:55 a.m. officers of the Santa Monica Police Department were called to the 1200 block of Palisades Park to investigate reports of a man sleeping in some shrubbery.
When the officers arrived at the park they approached the shrubbery and noticed the man had damaged it.
This man had made a hole in the shrubbery in order to conceal himself within it.
The officers commanded the man to exit the shrubbery and he crawled out, but after he had risen onto his two feet he accelerated away, running eastbound across Ocean Avenue, nearly being hit by several vehicles as he traversed the traffic at high speed.
The officers displayed a higher rate of speed and this man was apprehended at the intersection of Third Street and Wilshire Boulevard.
This man of no fixed abode was charged with resisting officers and a pair of municipal code violations concerning the park and shrubbery.
His bail was set at $10,000.
Editor’s Note: These reports are part of a regular police coverage series entitled “Alert Police Blotter” (APB), which injects some minor editorial into certain police activities in Santa Monica. Not all of the Mirror’s coverage of incidents involving police are portrayed in this manner. More serious crimes and police-related activities are regularly reported without editorial in the pages of the Santa Monica Mirror and its website, smmirror.com.