Good morning. It’s Friday, July 17. Expect a nice break in the heat wave — highs will fall to the mid-80s and stay there all weekend.
1. Butter Call Saul: Busted crustacean hustlers might face a jury of their piers.
It was categorically summer on Wednesday afternoon at the Santa Monica Pier. The wooden boards thundered with foot traffic — tourists housing churros, winning stuffed Pikachus, and getting their names written on grains of rice.
Little did many of them know they were at a crime scene. On Monday night, officers at the California Department of Fish and Wildlife had made a major bust: six poachers had allegedly caught 34 spiny lobsters out of season, before being caught themselves.
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