{"id":303114,"date":"2026-05-06T20:47:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T20:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/303114\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T20:47:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T20:47:06","slug":"long-beach-man-gets-2-years-6-months-for-having-molotov-cocktail-at-protest-press-telegram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/303114\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Beach man gets 2 years, 6 months for having Molotov cocktail at protest \u2013 Press Telegram"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Long Beach man was sentenced Wednesday, May 6, to two years, six months behind bars for possessing a Molotov cocktail during an anti-immigration-enforcement protest last summer.<\/p>\n<p>Wrackkie Quiogue, 28, pleaded guilty last year to a single federal count of possession of an unregistered destructive device.<\/p>\n<p>A Molotov cocktail is a hand-thrown incendiary weapon consisting of a breakable container filled with flammable substances and equipped with a fuse \u2014 typically a glass bottle filled with flammable liquids sealed with a cloth wick.<\/p>\n<p>An affidavit filed in Los Angeles federal court with the charge states that Quiogue possessed the handmade device on June 8, 2025, while holding a lighter during a protest near federal buildings in downtown Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles police officers saw Quiogue with the device and quickly arrested him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Long Beach man was sentenced Wednesday, May 6, to two years, six months behind bars for possessing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303115,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[7,723,138,131,133,132,137,100,136],"class_list":["post-303114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-california","tag-crime","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-los-angeles-county","tag-news","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303114","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=303114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}