ORANGE COUNTY, CA \u2014 A Long Beach man was arrested for allegedly stealing bronze plaques honoring service members from a veterans memorial park in Orange County in January, authorities said. <\/p>\n
The incident was reported Jan. 20, when Tustin police said that six bronze plaques dedicated to service members were stolen from Veterans Sports Park. The investigation the followed yielded a suspect. <\/p>\n
On Friday, police announced that Long Beach resident Sean Green was arrested Feb. 5. He’s suspected of similar bronze thefts in Huntington Beach, Santa Ana and Orange, Tustin police said. <\/p>\n
While Green was arrested, the stolen plaques were not recovered. Police believe they were recycled prior to his arrest.<\/p>\n
The Orange County District Attorney’s Office filed 10 felony counts of grand theft and 10 felony counts of vandalism against Green. <\/p>\n
“For the Tustin community, the theft of these plaques was more than a loss of metal \u2014 it was a loss felt at a place dedicated to honor, memory, and sacrifice,” the Tustin Police Department said in a statement. “Veterans\u2019 Sports Park stands as sacred ground in our city, and we remain committed to protecting the legacy it represents.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORANGE COUNTY, CA \u2014 A Long Beach man was arrested for allegedly stealing bronze plaques honoring service members…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177237,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":["post-177236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177236","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=177236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}