Press Releases

05/24/00
Manhattan Middle School Employee Arrested For Sales of Methamphetamine

On Tuesday May 23, 2000 Detectives of the Redondo Beach Police Department’s Special Investigations Unit arrested Shirley Hill, a 42 year-old Hawthorne woman for possession of methamphetamine. Shirley Hill is a cafeteria worker at the Middle School located in the city of Manhattan Beach, the school has employed her for the last five years.

Investigators developed information from different sources that Hilty was selling methamphetamine on campus in the school parking lot. The S.I.U. Detectives initiated an investigation, and after surveilling Hilty she was arrested leaving the school. At the time of her arrest detectives discovered 17 individual packages of methamphetamine in her vehicle and a quantity of methamphetamine was also found on her. A search warrant was served on her house immediately after her arrest.

The investigation is still ongoing to determine if the children from the school were ever solicited by Hilty or exposed to the illicit drug. Hilty was released on $20,000 bail and is scheduled for arraignment June 12, 2000 at South Bay Superior Court.  Hilty was charged with possession, possession for sales and possession for sales within 1,000 feet of a school ground. For further information contact Lt. John Skipper of the Investigations Division at 310-379-2477 extension 2714. This press release was prepared by Sgt. Phil Keenan, Redondo Beach Police Investigations Division.