Long Beach police say they\u2019ve arrested a road-raging man who pointed a gun at another driver and his family while they were stopped next to him at a red light.<\/p>\n
Detectives say the victim was driving southbound on Magnolia Avenue on the afternoon of April 28 when a driver in a gray Ford Bronco began \u201chonking repeatedly\u201d and tailgating him.<\/p>\n
The victim, who had his wife and infant daughter in the car, pulled over and allowed the Bronco to pass, according to detectives\u2019 account in a search warrant.<\/p>\n
When the victim started driving again, he and the Bronco ended up stopped at the same red light at Anaheim Street, where the victim asked the driver \u201cwhat his hurry was,\u201d detectives wrote.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s when the Bronco\u2019s driver reportedly yelled back, \u201cDon\u2019t talk to me like that,\u201d in Spanish and raised his right arm to show a black handgun.<\/p>\n
The victim\u2019s wife recorded video of the altercation on her cellphone, which showed the Bronco\u2019s driver point the gun toward the sky and rack the slide, appearing to load a bullet into the chamber, the detectives wrote.<\/p>\n
He then allegedly pointed the gun at them, prompting the victim to hit the gas and drive away.<\/p>\n
Detectives wrote that they were able to track down a suspect based on a partial license plate. Police said they arrested Jose Luis Pedroza, 42, on Thursday and booked him into jail on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon, being a felon in possession of a firearm and illegally owning ammunition. He was being held on $30,000 bail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Long Beach police say they\u2019ve arrested a road-raging man who pointed a gun at another driver and his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217885,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-341973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","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\/341973","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=341973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}