{"id":309358,"date":"2010-02-11T20:20:10","date_gmt":"2010-02-12T01:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a88fa856970b"},"modified":"2010-02-11T22:06:58","modified_gmt":"2010-02-12T03:06:58","slug":"manhattan-beach-police-officers-under-investigation-in-hit-and-run-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/309358","title":{"rendered":"Manhattan Beach police officers under investigation in hit-and-run case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four Manhattan Beach police officers are under investigation and were placed on leave after allegedly failing to report a hit-and-run accident caused by a vehicle registered to one of the officers, authorities said Thursday.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>Alcohol may have been involved in the three-car collision that occurred Jan. 31 near Sepulveda and Manhattan Beach boulevards, the Police Department said. <br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>When officers arrived, the driver suspected of causing the crash had fled. The driver&#8217;s unoccupied vehicle was found later at a nearby gasoline station. <br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>Officers conducted a registration check, which showed that the owner was a Manhattan Beach police officer. No report was taken and no arrests were made, Police Chief Rod Uyeda said in a statement.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>Uyeda said he had &quot;grave concerns about decisions that were made by police officers involved in the investigation of the collision.&quot; <br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>The officers were placed on leave after a preliminary internal affairs investigation. Uyeda, citing the complexity of the case, said the investigation has been turned over to the Los Angeles County Sheriff&#8217;s Department. <br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>&#8212; Robert J. Lopez<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four Manhattan Beach police officers are under investigation and were placed on leave after allegedly failing to report a hit-and-run accident caused by a vehicle registered to one of the officers, authorities said Thursday.Alcohol may have been involved in the three-car collision that occurred Jan. 31 near Sepulveda and Manhattan Beach boulevards, the Police Department [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4622,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-309358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4622"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}