April 6 incident<\/a>, prosecutors said. Magone tested positive for marijuana three times since her arrest, Bogle\u00a0said during the hearing.<\/p>\nMagone’s defense lawyer, Lloyd Nadel, said his client had undergone drug and psychiatric evaluation at South Oaks Hospital at the suggestion of the court and that her most recent drug test was negative.<\/p>\n
“We told our story in the grand jury,” Nadel said. “They came out and indicted her, but that’s only a probable cause to believe she committed a crime. Obviously, she’s entitled to a trial.” <\/p>\n
The confrontation began at the intersection of Laurelton Boulevard and West Penn Street when the great-grandfather, who regularly takes care of the child when the mother is working,\u00a0was on a walk with the infant, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n
Magone had been walking a dog \u2014 barefoot, according to the baby’s father \u2014 before she approached the stroller from behind, started unbuckling the safety straps and attempted to take the baby, police said.<\/p>\n
“This is my child. I have a license,” Magone told the great-grandfather, according to charging documents.<\/p>\n
Magone has no relationship to the child.<\/p>\n
The great-grandfather was able to wrestle Magone to the ground, but she scratched, bit and assaulted the elderly man, police said.<\/p>\n
During the struggle, Magone ripped the great-grandfather\u2019s hands off the stroller, which overturned with the baby strapped inside, police said.<\/p>\n
Magone continued to resist and reach for the stroller until the great-grandfather restrained her on the ground until Long Beach police arrived, authorities said.<\/p>\n
Officers, who received multiple calls about the incident, arrested Magone, authorities said.<\/p>\n
Even after police arrived on the scene, Magone attempted to remove the toddler from the stroller, unzipping and ripping the child\u2019s sleep sack, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n
The child’s father, who lives in Long Beach, said he and his partner arrived on the scene to find Magone handcuffed and the great-grandfather “with blood dripping from his face.”<\/p>\n
The child was not hurt in the altercation. The great-grandfather suffered minor scratches and bruises but declined to be seen by paramedics, according to the child’s father.<\/p>\n
Nadel\u00a0said during the arraignment that he believed the case could be resolved through a treatment program.<\/p>\n
“She’s in a program,” the attorney said. “She sees a counselor a few times a week.”<\/p>\n
Magone is\u00a0a licensed clinical social worker and therapist with a practice in Long Beach.<\/p>\n
The child’s mother, who attended the hearing, declined to comment.<\/p>\n
“She claims that she was taking drugs,” Donnelly said in an interview. “She was smoking marijuana or taking something with marijuana in it. She claimed that she had taken some kind of candy. … We haven’t gotten to the bottom of that, but\u00a0if she is addicted to drugs. I’m glad she’s getting the help she needs.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A licensed clinical social worker, charged with trying\u00a0to abduct a 14-month-old\u00a0from her stroller in Long Beach while falsely…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":336582,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[723,131,133,132],"class_list":["post-336581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-crime","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\/336581","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=336581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}