Long Beach Police Blotter
Published 2:09 pm Wednesday, May 13, 2026
May 6 — Someone from the city crew reported that a subject is cutting cookies in the Bolstad restroom parking lot, and tearing it up each time the city goes in and grades it. The vehicle is an F-150 with a roadrunner on it.
Caller reported an attempted theft of fuel out of the company cargo truck out back at His Supper Table. Early this morning, around 05:30 a.m., a white male subject attempted to siphon fuel from the truck, but he couldn’t get the hose into the tank. Eventually he rolled up his hose and walked off. He was wearing a blue sweatshirt, faded blue jeans, and gray and white shoes with a black stripe around the bottom.
May 7 — An officer was out patrolling Stringtown Road in Ilwaco when a female subject waved him down in her vehicle. She stated she was just headed to the airport to call us. Her son assaulted her, and she wanted him arrested and out of the house.
The officer followed her back to the residence, and she waited outside in her vehicle filling out a statement form for the officer. She stated that her son, Jared Niemi, has been having rage episodes, and he pushed her to the ground just before she went to call the officer.
Another officer arrived on the scene, as he was in the area, and he assisted the first officer with taking Jared into custody. Jared was placed in the back of the first officer’s patrol vehicle, where he began to have another episode, and started banging around as the two officers were standing in front of the first officer’s vehicle wrapping up things with Jared’s mother.
Jared sliced his forehead open on the backseat camera, and his face was covered in blood and, while thrashing, around got blood all over the backseat. He was taken to Ocean Beach Hospital for medical attention, and then transported to the jail by the second officer, as the first officer’s patrol vehicle was too much of a mess to put Jared back into.
Jared M. Niemi was booked on fourth-degree assault (domestic violence) and second-degree malicious mischief for taking the officer’s vehicle out of commission.
May 8 — A male subject left his wallet on the counter at NAPA Auto Parts or Art’s Auto, and it was taken from there. The subject has a tile that tracks his wallet, and the wallet immediately went to Astoria/Warrenton so he shut off his cards. The last ping on his wallet was on the Astoria-Megler Bridge, so he figured it was thrown out.
Last night, he received a ping showing the wallet in Ocean Park. He is most concerned with getting his driver’s license back, as he lives in Hawaii, and is just down helping his grandson build a shop.
An officer will check the address history on the last ping, and the subject will update the police department with any new pings.
May 9 — There was a two-trip motion alarm at the Long Beach Tavern. When the officer arrived, a male subject was standing outside the bar with an LBT shirt on. He identified himself, and said he did not work for the bar, but his fiancée did. He was obviously very intoxicated.
The front door was secure, and the officer did not observe any damage to it. The subject called the bar manager to try and turn the alarm off. While the officer was speaking to the subject, another male subject came out from the side of the building. He said he was given a free pizza, and put it near the trash cans.
The officer walked to the side of the building to ensure there were no signs of forced entry, and there were not.
While on the scene, the first subject’s fiancée walked up. She also appeared to be intoxicated.
When the alarm eventually turned off, the two subjects began walking away, and the officer left.
About three minutes after clearing, the officer was dispatched back to the area for a man laying on top of a woman across the street from the tavern. Another officer had already arrived on the scene. The first male subject was still there. The second officer said that the first male subject’s pants had caught on a small piece of metal that lined one of the planter boxes, and the female half had already walked away. The officers left.
The front desk at Ocean Beach Hospital reported there was a male subject on the scene calling her a “b**ch” and yelling at her because they would not let him see his wife. An officer arrived and the staff said the male subject was possibly a certain person. The officer checked, and there was no such name in the system.
The officer was informed the subject’s wife was being held for a suicide attempt, and she did not want to talk to anyone whatsoever, including her husband and mother. While the officer was speaking with staff, the subject drove out of the parking lot and headed north. The officer told them to call back if he returned.
Caller reported a male subject was cutting trees, who then took off south. An officer searched the area, but was unable to locate the subject.