LONG BEACH, CA \u2014 Five electric motorcycles and a pocket bike have been seized in relation to a group riding recklessly throughout Long Beach, police say.<\/p>\n
At around 4:22 pm on March 27, the Long Beach Police Department said it became aware of a group of about 50 people riding illegal electric motorcycles (aka e-motos), illegal miniature motorcycles (aka pocket bikes), and electric bicycles (e-bikes) recklessly throughout the city.<\/p>\n
A plan was then developed to take enforcement action where appropriate, including resources from the LBPD’s South Division, West Division and Air Support Unit.<\/p>\n
“Officers responded and conducted proactive enforcement action related to reckless driving and vehicle code violations,” a police spokesperson said.<\/p>\n
The actions taken include:<\/p>\n
The arrest a 17-year-old male for reckless driving-related booking charges.Citations issued to five people for vehicle code violations.The towing of five illegal e-motos and one illegal pocket bike. <\/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,\u201d Chief of Police Wally Hebeish explained.<\/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,” Hebish added. <\/p>\n
Illegal street takeover incidents and suspicious activity can be reported by calling 9-1-1 if it’s an emergency, or by calling (562) 435-6711 for non-emergency police dispatch.<\/p>\n
Anonymous tips may be submitted through “LA Crime Stoppers” by calling 800-222-TIPS (8477), downloading the “P3 Tips” app to your smartphone (available at the Apple app store or Google Play), or at\u202fwww.LACrimeStoppers.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONG BEACH, CA \u2014 Five electric motorcycles and a pocket bike have been seized in relation to a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243599,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-243598","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\/243598","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=243598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}