Huntington Beach Police

A 53-year-old Irvine woman who claims that police officers dislocated her shoulder in arresting her filed a $4.5-million lawsuit Tuesday against the Huntington Beach Police Department. Marilyn Ruth Dove claims that Officers Michael P. Kelly and Douglas Tallman "forcibly yanked" her arm and caused serious injuries, according to the suit filed in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles. Love was arrested on Jan.

Two men were shot and killed Tuesday by Huntington Beach police after officers stopped a vehicle in Westminster and heard a gunshot, authorities said. The two officers fired multiple rounds after they heard a shot from inside the vehicle, said Lt. Russell Reinhart of the Huntington Beach Police Department. "I'm not sure if it was aimed at the officers, or who it was aimed at," he said. At least one firearm was recovered, he said. A woman was with the two men who were killed.

Huntington Beach police said they've made a break in an unsolved 1968 slaying by identifying the woman's shoes as a regional brand that was manufactured in upstate New York. For 43 years, the victim, whose throat had been slashed, has been known only as "Jane Doe. " Police said they had no idea what her name was or where the young, dark-haired woman came from. Now they may be a step closer. On Sunday, detectives said they had reason to believe Jane Doe was from New York, perhaps from Tioga County.

The first inkling that something was wrong came when managers peered through a window at the upscale Huntington Beach apartment complex and called police. The responding officers made a grim discovery when they entered the vacant unit late last week: The bodies of two teenagers sprawled on the floor. Investigators were waiting Monday for toxicology reports to be completed, but the two youths appeared to have died from drug- and alcohol-related causes, said Lt. Russell Reinhart of the Huntington Beach Police Department.

Police issued a composite drawing Sunday of a man seen driving away from a condominium where a woman was found beaten and stabbed to death Saturday. The victim was identified Sunday as Annette Karla Robertson, 51, who was murdered in her home in the 1400 block of Arrow Lane, just southwest of the intersection of Beach Boulevard and Adams Avenue, Huntington Beach police said. According to investigators, neighbors heard the woman's screams shortly before 1 p.m.

Police and city officials were left to wonder Tuesday what more could have been done to stem the outbreak of Fourth of July melees that included furniture burning in the streets and firecrackers, bottles and rocks being hurled at officers and passing cars. More than 50 people were arrested in the city's downtown during three hours late Monday night and early Tuesday.

A man suspected of robbing as many as 21 banks in Southern California since late May was being held without bail Wednesday in Huntington Beach City Jail. The suspect, identified as Jeffrey Anthony Whipple, 29, address unknown, was arrested Tuesday in Cerritos on charges of armed robbery and parole violation. Police said a man who wore long hair in a ponytail and was dubbed the Ponytail Bandit was wanted in connection with the robbery of a Union Bank branch at 17122 Beach Blvd.

Huntington Beach police said Sunday that they are searching for an armed man who held up an oceanfront motel, slugged the motel clerk and fled with $470. Officers said the holdup occurred at 10 p.m. Saturday at the Huntington Shores Motel, 21002 Pacific Coast Highway. The assailant entered the motel lobby brandishing a blue steel revolver and threatened the motel clerk, Jamie Estrada, 28, officers said.

A man wanted in connection with a shooting in which a burglary suspect was killed and a Huntington Beach police officer injured was identified Thursday as a parole violator from Los Angeles County. Christopher Michael Sheean, 23, is wanted on a warrant charging him with murder, armed robbery and attempted murder of a police officer, police said.

Huntington Beach police said they've made a break in an unsolved 1968 slaying by identifying the woman's shoes as a regional brand that was manufactured in upstate New York. For 43 years, the victim, whose throat had been slashed, has been known only as "Jane Doe. " Police said they had no idea what her name was or where the young, dark-haired woman came from. Now they may be a step closer. On Sunday, detectives said they had reason to believe Jane Doe was from New York, perhaps from Tioga County.

Her body was found face down in a drainage ditch in an open field. Her throat was slit and she had been sexually assaulted. On March 14, 1968, detectives in Huntington Beach would begin a 42-year search to identify the victim, later dubbed "Jane Doe" ? and the person who killed her. Monty McKennon, 82, remembers the case well. For 12 years, it sat on his desk, McKennon and his team the only advocates for the answers to the mystery. McKennon, who spent 24 years with the Huntington Beach Police Department, recalled how long it took to bury the woman's body.

The Huntington Beach Police Department is considering posting the names of drunk-driving suspects on its website as part of a stepped-up strategy to address the problem downtown and citywide. In a report submitted to the City Council this month, police said drinking and driving is a "significant problem" in Surf City and suggested that publicly posting names sends a message that police are cracking down. "It's not a wall of shame we're looking to put up," said police Lt. Russell Reinhart.

A Huntington Beach police officer was arrested on suspicion of physically abusing his wife and girlfriend, the Orange County district attorney's office said Wednesday. James Roberts III, 33, according to the district attorney's office, will be charged with eight counts of false imprisonment by violence or deceit, three counts of criminal threats, two counts of domestic battery with corporal injury, two counts of aggravated assault, one count of dissuading a witness by force or threat and one count of vandalism causing $400 or more in damage, all felony charges.

The parents of a knife-carrying woman killed in a confrontation with Huntington Beach police filed a wrongful-death lawsuit Thursday accusing the two officers who shot her of excessive and unreasonable force. The lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Santa Ana also alleges that investigators illegally searched Ashley MacDonald's home after she was killed. The suit seeks at least $40 million in compensatory and punitive damages for each of the teen's parents, Kenneth MacDonald and Lisa Marie Guy.

Road rage on the northbound San Diego Freeway in Huntington Beach resulted in gunfire Friday afternoon, injuring a motorist, police said. One of two suspects was arrested. Two motorists began shooting at one another as they entered the northbound 405 near Beach Boulevard, police said. Michael Layton, 35, of Long Beach was taken into custody after he reported what happened to police. He was arrested on suspicion of shooting at an occupied vehicle and carrying a loaded gun in public.

No chance Huntington Beach cops were going to be charged in the fatal shooting of a young woman who ran at them with a knife. The Orange County D.A.'s office made it official Thursday, saying the two patrolmen were justified in pumping 15 shots into 18-year-old Ashley MacDonald's chest last August. I wrote at the time that the cops would skate and I still have the sense that there must have been a way to disable a young woman, high on methamphetamines, short of killing her.

Two Huntington Beach police officers who shot to death an 18-year-old woman carrying a knife last summer acted properly, Orange County Dist. Atty. Tony Rackaukas announced Thursday. The Aug. 25 death of Ashley MacDonald led to a weeklong protest outside police headquarters, with supporters saying the officers should have found a nonlethal way to subdue a 120-pound woman who was carrying a 4-inch blade.