Beach Boulevard

AREAS 1 AND 2 No significant crimes reported. AREA 3 Alabama Street: Breaking and entering was reported in the 300 block at 9:38 p.m. Friday. Alabama Street: Credit card fraud was reported in the 1200 block at 5:50 p.m. Tuesday. Alabama Street and Frankfort Avenue: Assault was reported at 9 p.m. Friday. Lake Street: Breaking and entering was reported in the 400 block at 1:16 a.m. Tuesday. Main Street: Theft was reported in the 100 block at 9:32 a.m. Wednesday.

This year’s HB Reads program has provided Huntington Beach with many inspiring stories. And not all of them reside between the covers of the chosen book, “They Poured Fire on Us from the Sky.” For the last month and a half, students, City Council members and others have read the incredible tale of perseverance by three Lost Boys of Sudan, who fled their country’s civil war in the 1980s and endured hardships unimaginable in...

Police say they found drugs, a loaded firearm and a bulletproof vest when they arrested a suspected gang member trying to evade officers during a traffic stop. Angel Villegas, 21, of Riverside and his passenger, Lorena Mercado, 28, of Tustin, were arrested Jan. 19. Villegas was booked on suspicion of transporting and possessing a controlled substance, possession of controlled substance paraphernalia, having a loaded firearm, participating in criminal street activity and possession of a firearm during street gang activity.

A company could have to pay $125,000 for attempting to build on its wetlands property in Huntington Beach and violating the city’s Local Coastal Program and the Coastal Act. Beachfront Village LLC, formerly known as Mills PCH LLC, could have to pay a fine for constructing a fence and berm and filling, grading and draining part of its salt marsh wetlands on its property. The issue will go before the California Coastal Commission at a public hearing Wednesday. The fine is part of an agreement between the commission and Beachfront to settle the company’s violations.

A company could have to pay $125,000 for attempting to build on its wetlands property in Huntington Beach and violating the city’s Local Coastal Program and the Coastal Act. Beachfront Village LLC, formerly known as Mills PCH LLC, could have to pay a fine for constructing a fence and berm and filling, grading and draining part of its salt marsh wetlands on its property. The issue will go before the California Coastal Commission at a public hearing Nov. 4. The fine is part of an agreement between the commission and Beachfront to settle the company’s violations.