Door-to-door ‘Salesman’

Here is a message from Senior Lead Officer Joe Buscaino of the Los Angeles Police Department, Harbor Division regarding a recent crime in our area:

Click on article below…let’s not give these people business…DO NOT BUY FROM SOLICITORS! I arrested two solicitors in the Point Fermin area on 11/29/07 for selling “stain removing products” without a valid permit. Please forward to your friends and family….Joe Buscaino

Senior Lead Officer Joe Buscaino
San Pedro Basic Car Area 5A85

A man purporting to be a door-to-door magazine salesman robbed a San Pedro woman of $400, sparking concern that the rest of his sales are crooked, police said Tuesday.

Detectives at the Los Angeles Police Department’s Harbor Division are trying to identify the man, whose picture was snapped during a Saturday visit to a victim’s bank in an Albertsons supermarket, Detective Maurice Graham said.

The blond-haired, blue-eyed man went from house to house on streets near Paseo del Mar on Saturday, pitching magazines for sale and saying the money would help him go to college, Graham said.

He told people they could subscribe to magazines or make donations to reading material that would be sent overseas to troops in Iraq.

“We believe it’s all fake,” Graham said. “It’s just a ruse to get the money and the checks.”

One person gave him $200 cash; another gave him $50 cash and a $200 check; and another handed him $80, Graham said.

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…Anyone with information about the man is asked to contact Detective Christopher Giles at 310-522-2028. Anyone seeing him should contact 911.