Long Beach Police Blotter
Published 9:18 am Sunday, January 25, 2026
Jan. 14 — Theft: The Benson’s By the Sea owner called the Long Beach Police Department and advised he was following a male and female who just ate at the restaurant and left without rendering payment or making any promise to return and pay.
An officer observed the owner walking behind Kristen N.Fletcher and Tyler L. Engelson near Bolstad and Pacific Avenues. He contacted Fletcher and Engelson and asked them if they knew why he was contacting them. They both claimed they did not know why.
The officer let them know that Benson’s reported them for failing to pay after they ate in the restaurant, and requested their IDs. They identified themselves, and stated they lived together in South Bend, but were unable to recall their physical address.
Engelson stated he left his wallet and credit card at the hotel. The officer allowed Fletcher to return to their hotel room to attempt to locate a form of payment to pay for their meals, which totaled approximately $43. A short time later Fletcher returned, and was unable to provide any form of payment.
Both subjects were advised they were under arrest for third-degree theft. The officer issued both of the citations, and advised them of their mandatory court appearance date of Jan. 26 at 10 a.m. He also issued a Notice Prohibiting Entry to both subjects. The owner was provided with a written statement form, and he said he would drop it off later today.
Caller at Safe Coast Seafoods requested a phone call regarding a “fraud issue.” He told Dispatch that a person was impersonating a business that he sells to, and they shipped $250,000 in goods and never received payment.
An officer attempted to caII him numerous times, but there was no answer. The reported information is civil in nature, and the call was closed out without taking further action.
Gavin Michael-Allen Busenius was driving at higher rates of speed northbound on Oregon Avenue, when he failed to stop at the Sid Snyder Drive intersection, and shot across the highway. An officer attempted to catch up to the vehicle, a grey Chevy Suburban, as it continued at a high rate of speed up Oregon Avenue to the Bolstad Avenue intersection.
The vehicle turned towards Washington Avenue, and when the officer got onto Washington, the vehicle was traveling northbound. The officer noticed the vehicle braking. and turning left off Washington into the back entrance of Rosemont Terrace. The vehicle was backing up into its spot at the first trailer on the right.
The officer’s emergency lights were flashing as he pulled up and pulled up right in front of Busenius. Busenius looked at him, got out of the vehicle, and walked inside his trailer. The officer was radioing to Dispatch at that time. but he knew the officer was there stopping him.
Once another officer arrived shortly after, we attempted contact at the trailer. Busenius eventually came out, and the officer asked him about his driving. He denied everything and told the officer to show him the proof.
He was not going to exit the trailer, and the officers did not want to stand and argue with him more, so both units left. The first officer saw him driving the vehicle at the time of stop, and confirmed his Washington license photo was the same person. Citations will be issued to Busenius for the multiple traffic infractions.
Jan. 15 — Caller reported that a male subject dumped what she believed was urine on the driver’s seat. She said that she may have accidentally spit on the suspect’s silver car. The car had come out of Heidi’s Inn.
She went to the Ilwaco Market and went inside. She then saw the suspect pull up and dump the unknown fluid into her truck through the open driver’s side window. An officer looked at the video from the Ilwaco Market and saw the suspect dump a yellow substance in the truck. The officer believed this was the subject, who was staying at Heidi’s Inn, Devin A. Newton.
The officer contacted him, and he admitted to doing it, but said it was oil. The officer told him that he needed a written estimate on the clean up. The suspect was cited for third-degree malicious mischief.
Jan. 16 — There was a report of a male subject sleeping in a cubicle at an Iwaco address. An officer responded and contacted the subject, who was in the stairwell of the building, just west of Spawn Fly Fish. The officer told him that someone had called on him, and that he needed to move along, as he was on someone’s private property. He left without incident.
Jan. 17 — Caller phoned the office from her friend’s phone, stating that she lost hers. She said she was tracking it, and it had moved a number of blocks. An officer picked her up, and they went to where it last showed the phone’s location. They eventually found it about 15 feet back in the woods. The officer then took her home and dropped her off.