A woman was arrested in Long Beach after police say she attempted to take a 14-month-old child from a stroller.<\/p>\n
According to court documents, the incident happened Monday on West Penn Street. <\/p>\n
Authorities allege that Heather Magone approached the child while the toddler was being pushed in a stroller by her 79-year-old great-grandfather. <\/p>\n
Investigators say Magone shouted, \u201cThis is my child, I have a license,\u201d before trying to take the child.<\/p>\n
The child\u2019s great-grandfather intervened and wrestled Magone to the ground. During the struggle, police say she bit and scratched him, and the stroller was knocked over with the child still inside. <\/p>\n
The child\u2019s mother said the incident has been a wake-up call, even in a neighborhood she has always considered safe. <\/p>\n
“We do have to be more vigilant. I never thought about this happening in Long Beach,” the child’s mother said. “This feels like a very safe neighborhood. I know people leave their doors open. I hope and pray this is just this one person, just one incident.”<\/p>\n
Magone has been charged with kidnapping and endangering the welfare of a child. She is scheduled to appear in county court on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman was arrested in Long Beach after police say she attempted to take a 14-month-old child from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256488,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[25755,131,133,132],"class_list":["post-256487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-kidnapping","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\/256487","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=256487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}