Following the arrest last week of a suspect in a December shooting near Alamitos Beach, police found 30 firearms in his home, 12 of which they say did not have serial numbers.<\/p>\n
James William Higgins, 74, was taken into custody on Friday on suspicion of firing a weapon at another driver in the area of Ocean Boulevard and Alamitos Avenue on Dec. 18, Long Beach police said.<\/p>\n
A dispute preceded the shooting, police said. No one was hit, but a nearby residential building was struck by gunfire. It wasn\u2019t known how many shots Higgins was accused of firing.<\/p>\n
Detectives found the cache of weapons inside Higgins\u2019 home, along with a \u201clarge quantity\u201d of ammunition, police said.<\/p>\n
Higgins was arrested on suspicion of discharging a firearm at an inhabited dwelling, assault with a firearm, manufacturing or assembling an unregistered firearm and manufacturing, or causing to be manufactured an assault weapon, police said. He was being held on $250,000 bail.<\/p>\n
A firearm without a serial number is commonly referred to as a \u201cghost\u201d gun because it is untraceable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Following the arrest last week of a suspect in a December shooting near Alamitos Beach, police found 30…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":213445,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[723,138,131,133,132,100,136],"class_list":["post-213444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-crime","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-news","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213444","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=213444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}