LONG BEACH, CA \u2014 Gang detectives have arrested a suspect in a December 2024 shooting incident and in the process, seized 30 firearms, many of which were unserialized, police officials said Tuesday.<\/p>\n
James William Higgins, a 74-year-old Long Beach resident, was arrested March 6 when detectives, with the assistance of patrol officers, took suspect Higgins into custody after detectives served a search warrant at his residence.<\/p>\n
During the search warrant service, detectives say they recovered 30 firearms, 12 of which were unserialized, along with “a large quantity” of ammunition.<\/p>\n
The shooting incident took place Dec. 18, 2024. Officers responded to the area of Ocean Boulevard and Alamitos Avenue after an individual called to report they believed a shooting had occurred outside their residence.<\/p>\n
The preliminary investigation indicated a dispute had occurred between the drivers of two vehicles in the area. Once the dispute escalated, one driver fired multiple rounds at the other vehicle, police say.<\/p>\n
During the incident, a nearby residential building was struck by gunfire, but no injuries to people were reported.<\/p>\n
“Higgins was booked for 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,” a police spokesperson said.<\/p>\n
His bail was set at $250,000. The case is being presented to the Los Angeles County District Attorney\u2019s Office for filing consideration, police say.<\/p>\n
Anyone with information regarding the incident is asked to contact LBPD Gang Detail Detective Hector Lizardo at (562) 570-7370. Anonymous tips may be submitted through \u201cLA Crime Stoppers\u201d by calling 800-222-TIPS (8477), through the \u201cP3 Tips\u201d app via smartphone, or via\u202fwww.lacrimestoppers.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONG BEACH, CA \u2014 Gang detectives have arrested a suspect in a December 2024 shooting incident and in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":213485,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-213484","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\/213484","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=213484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}