Two Men Stabbed In Attempted Robbery Monday Night (Dec. 7), 200 block St. Joseph Ave. Steps From Belmont Shore's Second St.

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Two Men Stabbed In Attempted Robbery Monday Night (Dec. 7), 200 block St. Joseph Ave. Near Belmont Shore's Second St.

Other serious crimes (plus hard drug arrests) reported in November in tony Shore area

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(Dec. 10, 2015) -- Two men were stabbed in an alleged attempted robbery within steps of Second St. at St. Joseph Ave. in Belmont Shore on Monday night.

LBPD Public Information Officer Nancy Pratt says that on Dec. 7 at about 10:45 p.m., officers were dispatched to the 200 block of St. Joseph Ave. regarding an assault call; arriving officers found that two men (adults) had been approached by two men (adults) who allegedly attempted to rob them.

LBPD says a physical altercation followed in which both victims were stabbed; a witness intervened and the suspects ran to a nearby vehicle and fled. The victims were transported to a hospital with what appeared to be non-life-threatening injuries [verbiage not meant to belittle the injuries; these could be quite serious.]

LBPD describes the two suspects as two male Hispanics in their late teens or early 20's; no property was taken. Detectives are "actively investigating and attempting to determine if the two men were specifically targeted," PIO Pratt tells LBREPORT.com. LBPD asks anyone with information about what took place to contact Robbery Detective Don Collier at (562) 570-5537. Anonymous tips may be submitted by calling 1-800-222-TIPS (8477), texting TIPLA plus your tip to CRIMES (274637), or visiting www.lacrimestoppers.org.

Belmont Shore isn't immune from violent crime but it's not often at the level of stabbings with attempted robbery (more often altercations in vicinity of 2nd St. related to alcohol.)

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Red Xs=2014 and 2015 homicides to date; Blue Xs=2014 and 2015 shootings, person wounded; Brown Xs=shots fired at victim(s), not hit; Purple Xs=2014 shots at occupied residence/vehicle; Green Xs= 2014 and 2015 shots at unoccupied vehicle/residence; Grey Xs=shots fired (no hit, no target identified); Orange X's=non-fatal stabbings. Map is unofficial. Separate maps (not shown here) indicate add'l shootings in and around Central LB and NLB.

As reported last month (first, again) by LBREPORT.com, on Nov. 9 a man (adult) was the victim of an assault with a deadly weapon (not a firearm) in the area of Ocean Blvd./54th Place. LBPD PIO Pratt says that when officers arrived, they learned that two male subjects (no age indicated) had approached the victim and attempted to rob him...and during the physical assault the victim was struck with a blunt object. When witnesses approached, the suspects fled on foot.

Although the victim wasn't transported to a hospital by LBFD, what took place was sufficiently serious that LBPD East Division personnel participated in a small meeting with neighborhood residents to discuss what took place and other crime trends. [We don't have details of what was discussed; if you attended and would like to share that information, email us and let us know how to contact you.]

During November, the Belmont Shore area had two other reported assaults: they were batteries at 1:30 a.m. in the 200 block of Santa Ave. Ave. [just off 2nd St.] and at 11:40 p.m. in the 3900 block of Livingston Dr.

There were three reported robberies in November: two at midmorning (one to a business in the 1 block of Granada, another to a person in the 100 block of Ximeno and a third in the 200 block of Bay Shore to an inhabited dwelling/common carrier.)

And for the first time in recent memory, LBPD indicates three reported incidents of meth/ecstasy/GHP, etc. in Belmont Shore: 5200 block E. 2nd St., 5600 block E. 2nd St., 2nd St./Covina Ave. plus an incident of heroine/cocaine/controlled substance in the 5200 block E. 2nd St.

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Belmont Shore is part of LB's Third Council district, represented since mid-July 2014 by Councilwoman Suzie Price, whom Mayor Robert Garcia chose to chair the Council's Public Safety Committee.

In both 2014 and 2015, the Council voted (without dissent) for budgets proposed by management and recommended by Mayor Garcia that leave LB taxpayers with a budgeted police level for citywide deployment roughly equivalent per capita to what L.A. would have if it L.A. cut roughly 30% of LAPD's officers. The Council-approved budgets also eliminated funding that supported LBPD's former field anti-gang unit (an internal anti-gang unit remains.)

Following the practice of the Public Safety Committee's previous chair Garcia, Councilwoman Price held no hearings of her Committee to discuss the public safety aspects of the budgets proposed by management and recommended in August-September 2014 and 2015 by the Mayor. In response to an LBREPORT.com editorial urging Price to hold such hearings (a position we took in previous years under Garcia to no avail), Councilwoman Price replied in 2014 that to do so would be what she described as "unprecedented."