{"id":274607,"date":"2026-04-18T20:10:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T20:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/274607\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T20:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T20:10:08","slug":"long-beach-officer-stabbed-multiple-times-by-knife-wielding-suspect-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/274607\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Beach officer stabbed multiple times by knife-wielding suspect, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">LONG BEACH, Calif.  (KABC) &#8212; A knife-wielding suspect was arrested after allegedly stabbing a police officer multiple times in Long Beach.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The incident happened around 2:45 p.m. Friday on West Broadway, according to the Long Beach Police Department.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Officers responded to an unspecified trouble call in the area and when they arrived, they encountered the suspect.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;A use of force occurred, during which time, the suspect produced a knife and stabbed an LBPD officer multiple times,&#8221; the department said in a press release.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Long Beach officer stabbed multiple times by knife-wielding suspect, police say\" class=\"hsDdd NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl vBqtr KrDt itslR zFTjo hakZw HlUVI \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/18914810_041826-kabc-lb-officer-stabbed.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Four uniformed Department of Homeland Security air marshals who were in the area witnessed the incident and rushed to the officer&#8217;s aid, according to the police department. The officer was rushed to the hospital and has since been released.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The suspect, identified as 44-year-old Arturo Fernando, of Torrance, was arrested at the scene. He was booked at Long Beach City Jail for attempted murder and is being held on $1,000,000 bail.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">A knife was recovered at the scene.<\/p>\n<p><br class=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KABC Television, LLC. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONG BEACH, Calif. (KABC) &#8212; A knife-wielding suspect was arrested after allegedly stabbing a police officer multiple times&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274608,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[118924,131,133,132],"class_list":["post-274607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-118924","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\/274607","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=274607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}