Report of Dead Bodies in an Alley Turns Out to be Movie Props

Thursday - St. Patrick's Day

8:41 a.m. Balboa Boulevard and Rinaldi Street, Granada Hills
Report of a reckless driver. He is a white male, approximately 30 years old, driving a gray Chevy Tahoe.

8:50 a.m. 7300 block of Greenbush Street, Valley Glen
North Hollywood units are dispatched to a call regarding an assault with a deadly weapon suspect now at the location. The assault suspect is described as an Armenian female wearing a burgundy top and black pants, and she is wielding an “unknown metal object.”

8:51 a.m. Osborne Street and Laurel Canyon Boulevard, Pacoima
Report of a possible “child molester suspect, there now.” He is described as a Hispanic male, with dark hair, and he is in a black Ford Exposition parked at the location.

8:55 a.m. Owensmouth Avenue and Califa Street, Woodland Hills
Report of a traffic accident near the intersection.

8:57 a.m. 21800 block of Sherman Way, Canoga Park
Report of a “211 silent ” (a silent alarm sent directly to police, for use in a robbery situation). Topanga Station LAPD units are requested to respond “code 3.” An LAPD helicopter also joins to assist in the incident.

8:58 a.m. Laurel Canyon Boulevard, just north of Magnolia Avenue, North Hollywood
LAPD is now on the scene of a traffic accident.

8:58 a.m. 405 Freeway and Victory Boulevard, Van Nuys
A 911 call regarding a traffic accident on the freeway. LAFD’s Rescue 39 and Engine 39 are requested to respond to the scene.

9:05 a.m. Sherman Way, North Hollywood
LAFD on scene requests an “800 ambulance” (basic life support ambulance) instead of the rescue smbulance. It appears the injuries are not critical.

9:08 a.m. 12400 block of Ventura Boulevard, Studio City
LAPD receives a report for a traffic accident involving a car versus a motorcycle. A patrol unit and a rescue ambulance are requested to respond “code 3” (lights and sirens).

10:25 p.m. 3700 block South Roxbury Street, San Pedro
LAFD Engine 48 has arrived on the scene and has located the general area where a car has gone over the cliff near the ocean. They radio to other responders that they are searching for a path way to reach the vehicle. Operations Command Dispatch has asked if the car is submerged in water, and for now, the vehicle is not in clear sight, so they cannot say. “Heavy Rescue” (specially-equipped LAFD vehicles used for lifting as well as passenger extraction) is requested.

10:32 p.m. The LAFD rescue team has reached the vehicle and are extracting the woman driver. She is still conscious and tells them that she was the only person in the vehicle, there were no passengers.

10:55 p.m. Burbank Boulevard and Strohm Avenue, North Hollywood
A caller reports seeing two dead bodies, possibly a male and a female victim, south of the Burbank Boulevard alley, on the east side of Strohm Avenue, “about four houses down.” Two patrol units are responding.

11:04 p.m. The first North Hollywood patrol unit arrives on the scene. They report that the dead bodies are only “movie fixtures.”

11:18 p.m. Sepulveda Boulevard and Gault Street, Van Nuys
Report of “assault with a deadly weapon / domestic violence.”

11:19 p.m. 7500 block of Vineland Avenue, North Hollywood
Second call to police from a friend of the threat victim. Three alleged gang members, two males and a female, are in the apartment building’s stairwell shouting verbal threats to the victim’s family.

11:20 p.m. 11800 block of Lanark Street, Panorama City
LAFD to respond “non-emergency to the sick.”

11:21 p.m. 8100 block of Coldwater Canyon Boulevard, North Hollywood
Report of a fight at a residence.