{"id":214219,"date":"2026-03-11T03:25:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T03:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/214219\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T03:25:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T03:25:12","slug":"long-beach-police-uncover-30-guns-following-arrest-of-74-year-old-shooting-suspect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/214219\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Beach police uncover 30 guns following arrest of 74-year-old shooting suspect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Long Beach Police Department gang detectives found 30 guns and a large stash of ammunition following the arrest of a 74-year-old suspect allegedly connected to a 2024 car-to-car shooting.<\/p>\n<p>On Dec. 18, 2024, police officers responded to a report of gunshots in the downtown Long \u00a0Beach area of Ocean Boulevard and Alamitos Avenue. <\/p>\n<p>An investigation found that a dispute between two drivers in the area escalated to one of the drivers firing multiple rounds at the other vehicle, and a nearby residential building was struck by gunfire. <\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/guns-arrest.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"guns-arrest.jpg \" height=\"370\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Long Beach police detectives uncover a cache of guns and ammunition during the investigation into a 2024 shooting suspect.<\/p>\n<p>                Long Beach Police Department<\/p>\n<p>Last week, detectives took Long Beach resident James William Higgins into custody regarding the 2024 incident.\u00a0\u00a0A search warrant was served at his residence, where 30 firearms, 12 of which were unserialized, and a large quantity of ammunition were found. <\/p>\n<p>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. His bail was set at $250,000.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information regarding this incident can call (562) 570-7370.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Long Beach Police Department gang detectives found 30 guns and a large stash of ammunition following the arrest&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214220,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-214219","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\/214219","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=214219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}