The Coast Guard and local agencies are searching for a 30-year-old woman whose belongings were found unattended Wednesday evening south of the Venice Beach Pier.
The missing woman has been identified as Ashanta Ayana Elise Cobb-McNeil of Las Vegas, Nevada. Her loved ones said she sometimes goes by “Loni Legend.”
At about 8:40 p.m., Coast Guard Sector Los Angeles-Long Beach watchstanders received a report from the Los Angeles Police Department and a good Samaritan who discovered a phone, shoes, wallet, and passport on the sand.
Rescue crews from Coast Guard Station Los Angeles-Long Beach, Air Station Ventura and the cutter Narwhal searched the surrounding waters. The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department and Santa Monica lifeguards from the Los Angeles County Fire Department Lifeguard Division conducted shoreline and waterside searches. LAPD is coordinating searches on land…