Lakewood residents call for help from Sheriff’s Department amid recent crimes

With baseball bats and crowbars, vandals smashed up a automobile within the 4500 block of Lomina Avenue in Lakewood.

A neighbor instructed KTLA the home-owner was watching from the window as six brazen burglars tried to steal her automobile’s catalytic converter. Then because the home-owner screamed at them to cease, they threatened her.

Lakewood resident Brian Cuaron mentioned the incident made him “very, very indignant.”

“They have been going to kill that girl. It was that straightforward. You noticed the man with the bat above his head and he was proper by her door. He was going to whack her on high of the pinnacle,” Cuaron mentioned.

It’s not the primary time the neighborhood has been sufferer to crime. Neighbors inform KTLA that it’s uncontrolled within the space, together with a flash mob that swarmed a House Depot in November and stole merchandise.

“It’s throughout, in every single place. We had the smash and grabs simply domestically proper right here at House Depot. We’ve had a variety of stuff happening all through the neighborhood,” mentioned Lakewood resident Gregory Slaughter.

Surprisingly, the neighborhood is near the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Division’s Lakewood Station, however victims mentioned the deputies don’t at all times reply shortly.

“The common wait to report a housebreaking report or one among these crimes is over two hours right here in Lakewood,” mentioned Lakewood resident Danny King.

Neighbors now are becoming a member of forces, they need town council to kind a activity power to tackle the criminals.

“What are the cops doing, if they’ll’t management their very own space behind their sheriff’s station, how are they going to manage anything?” Cuaron requested.