{"id":260586,"date":"2026-04-10T05:04:25","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T05:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/260586\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T05:04:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T05:04:25","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-long-beach-woman-arrested-after-allegedly-trying-to-snatch-toddler-out-of-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/260586\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Long Beach Woman Arrested After Allegedly Trying To Snatch Toddler Out Of"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A woman was arrested in Long Beach after police say she attempted to take a 14-month-old child from a stroller.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">According to court documents, the incident happened Monday on West Penn Street. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">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<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Investigators say Magone shouted, \u201cThis is my child, I have a license,\u201d before trying to take the child.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">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<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The child\u2019s mother said the incident has been a wake-up call, even in a neighborhood she has always considered safe. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">&#8220;We do have to be more vigilant. I never thought about this happening in Long Beach,&#8221; the child&#8217;s mother said. &#8220;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.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">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&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":260587,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-260586","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-long-beach","8":"tag-long-beach","9":"tag-long-beach-headlines","10":"tag-long-beach-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260586","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=260586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}