Long Beach police arrested a 17-year-old boy and towed five electric motorcycles after responding to a street takeover, authorities said Sunday.<\/p>\n
The Long Beach Police Department said that at about 4:20 p.m. Friday, officers \u201cbecame aware of a group of approximately 50 subjects riding illegal e-motos, illegal pocket bikes, and e-bikes recklessly throughout the city.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAfter learning about this large group, officers from multiple divisions worked together to impact the significant public safety risk these illegal e-bikes\/pocket bikes can pose,” Police Chief Wally Hebeish said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cAnyone who chooses to participate in reckless, illegal driving on our streets should be aware that we will continue to cite, arrest and seize vehicles of those involved.\u201d<\/p>\n
The teen was arrested on suspicion of reckless driving-related charges. Additionally, five people were cited for vehicle code violations and an illegal pocket bike was towed, the department reported.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
The enforcement effort also included an Air Support Unit.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Anyone with information about illegal street takeovers was urged to call the LBPD at 562-435-6711. Those wishing to submit anonymous tips may contact Crime Stoppers at 800-222-8477 or lacrimestoppers.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Long Beach police arrested a 17-year-old boy and towed five electric motorcycles after responding to a street takeover,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242477,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-242476","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\/242476","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=242476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}