By Maki Becker Special to the Times 28 August 1996The way police told it, Southwest Los Angeles home-invasion robbery suspect Carlos Hawthorne was trying to throw detectives off his trail.Hawthorne, 20, was one of two men who allegedly invaded Vanessa Arlene Sells' home Sunday, shot her and her daughter, and fled in their 1992 Lexus.Police said Hawthorne called them about 7:30 p.m. Monday to report that he had seen three men running away from a Lexus near the 2500 block of Clyde Avenue in Culver City.Police officers from the LAPD's special-problems unit responded to Hawthorne's call and spotted the Lexus. Meanwhile, Hawthorne remained on the phone with a communications operator who was able to determine where he was calling from: a phone booth at 3560 La Cienega Blvd., less than a mile from where the car was found.The officers found Hawthorne at the phone booth, still talking to the operator and with the keys to the Lexus in his hand, and detained him. When they searched his pockets, they found a silver necklace and a bracelet that matched the description of jewelry that had been stolen from Sells' home. They later booked him on charges of robbery and attempted murder.
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