Long Beach police have arrested five men for soliciting sex and another for attempting to rob a sex worker during the department’s targeted operations along the Long Beach Boulevard corridor. <\/p>\n
To address community concerns about illegal activity related to human trafficking, the Long Beach Police Department said it cracked down on sex solicitation throughout the month of March.<\/p>\n
As a result of the operation, a total of six people were arrested, and three cars were towed, police said. <\/p>\n
These are the people arrested for solicitation, according to Long Beach police:<\/p>\n
Briana Hoyem, a 28-year-old Long Beach resident, arrested March 25 and March 31, 2026.<\/p>\n
David Lozano, 39-year-old Los Angeles resident, arrested March 25, 2026.<\/p>\n
Azora Mack, 22-year-old Fresno resident, arrested March 25, 2026<\/p>\n
Eduardo Cortez, 27-year-old Long Beach resident, arrested March 25<\/p>\n
Alex Palma, 38, Long Beach resident, arrested March 31<\/p>\n
Also, Blazie Douglas, 34-year-old resident of Long Beach was booked for robbery, assault with a deadly weapon and soliciting prostitution. <\/p>\n
Police said officers learned about a robbery in progress and respond to Long Beach Boulevard near the 91 Freeway. The responding officers found Douglas pointing a gun at a commercial sex worker and tried to rob her, police said. <\/p>\n
Douglas was being held without bail on Tueday.<\/p>\n
“Efforts like these reflect our continued commitment to addressing illegal activity while prioritizing the safety and dignity of those impacted by exploitation,\u201d said Chief of Police Wally Hebeish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Long Beach police have arrested five men for soliciting sex and another for attempting to rob a sex…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256206,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-256205","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\/256205","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=256205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}