{"id":103233,"date":"2025-12-21T01:37:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T01:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/103233\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T01:37:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T01:37:08","slug":"2-arrested-for-stealing-plaques-from-mlk-statue-in-long-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/103233\/","title":{"rendered":"2 arrested for stealing plaques from MLK statue in Long Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two people have been arrested for allegedly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/losangeles\/news\/historic-plaques-stolen-from-park-in-long-beach\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">stealing plaques<\/a> from a statue of Martin Luther King Jr. at a park in Long Beach in November, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The alleged theft happened on the morning of Nov. 27 at MLK Park, located at 1950 Lemon Avenue, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZVGQTx_2YDo&amp;t=36s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">according to the Long Beach Police Department<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They said that the two suspects stole several plaques and put them in the bed of a truck before leaving the area.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/screenshot-2025-12-20-at-4-47-24-pm.png#.png\" alt=\"screenshot-2025-12-20-at-4-47-24-pm.png \" height=\"353\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  A suspect allegedly stealing plaques from the Martin Luther King Jr. statue in Long Beach on Nov. 27, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>                Long Beach Police Department<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Detectives and professional staff immediately began to conduct a thorough investigation,&#8221; said a news release from Long Beach police. &#8220;They collected security camera footage, canvassed the area and began reviewing Automatic License Plate Reader data to identify the suspects.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On Dec. 9, officers located and arrested 44-year-old Sean Green on suspicion of grand theft. A little over a week later, on Dec. 18, 34-year-old Anthony Martinez of Downey was arrested for both grand theft and possession of methamphetamine, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The theft and vandalism targeting the statue of Martin Luther King Jr. at MLK Park is unacceptable and will not be tolerated,&#8221; said a statement from Long Beach Police Chief Wally Hebeish.<\/p>\n<p>He noted the &#8220;immense sentimental value&#8221; that the statue holds for the Long Beach community and said that officers would continue working to identify and arrest anyone involved in &#8220;this type of insensitive activity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Police said that they were still working to recover the stolen plaques.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who knows more was asked to contact LBPD at (562) 570-7351.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two people have been arrested for allegedly stealing plaques from a statue of Martin Luther King Jr. at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103234,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-103233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}