Pacific Palisades mostly burned, but there are some standing homes and businesses.
Some of those houses are unoccupied now, either because it’s summer and people are on vacation, or some people have a second home – far away from Los Angeles, or people are waiting for insurance to pay for smoke remediation and asbestos/lead removal.
Senior Lead Office Brian Espin wrote in a July 12 update, “if you are not occupying your home, please have someone check your property as frequently as possible. I am anticipating our theft crimes increasing due to the amount of construction equipment and tools being stored on people’s property.
“Please educate your working crews on your property to best secure their equipment and tools so we can try and make it harder for thieves to take our stuff,” Espin said. “Last week’s crime picture shows multiple incidents on Bollinger. Detectives are working the case and looking to connect any other crimes where they could be related to the same people involved in other areas.”
He also encouraged people to get a security system that will give instant notification if anyone is on that person’s property. “This helps us (LAPD), if you can see that someone is in your house and can give a good description of the suspects,” Espin said. “It will bump our response up to a priority call instead of a non-priority (alarm only).”
Crime: June 29 to July 5
BURGLARY:
June 29, 2 p.m. on Bollinger Drive. Rear door smash. An unknown suspect(s) used tools to smash rear glass sliding door. Suspect(s) entered and ransacked the residence. Suspect(s) left through rear glass sliding tour.
June 30, 6:45 p.m. on Bollinger Drive. The victim was checking her home when she discovered a wine bottle on the lawn. Victim entered the home and observed another alcohol bottle on the counter and her bathroom window open. When officers arrived, they noticed suspects had removed a screen to the resident’s window, opened the window, entered the residence and had removed two bottles of alcohol. A DNA swab was taken from the bottle.
July 1, 2:20 p.m. on Bollinger Drive. A suspect(s) smashed a bedroom window, entered ransacked the home, but did not remove any property. There was no CCTV.
July 1, 7:23 p.m. on Pacific Coast Highway. A homeowner is currently not at the location, but had surveillance cameras operating. A Male and female entered the vacant premises and removed miscellaneous property. The victim observed the suspects via CCTV, went to the location and prevented them fleeing the property, until officers arrived and put them under arrest. The victim’s property was recovered from the suspect’s vehicle and returned to victim.
Just imagine what will happen to the Palisades when this happens….
The California Senate has passed SB 549, granting LA County authority to purchase fire‑destroyed lots for minimal cost and convert them into low‑income housing, directly contradicting Gavin Newsom’s previous assurance to homeowners that such government‑driven property conversions wouldn’t happen.
Sorry guys, but you’ve been played from the start. You were NEVER going to get your houses back. That was ALWAYS the plan. You brought ALL of this on yourselves by voting for the same incompetent, corrupt politicians time after time.