Long Beach investigators seized 30 firearms from a home as part of an ongoing crackdown on the possession and sale of illegal firearms, police announced Thursday.<\/p>\n
Detectives with the Long Beach Police Department arrested Roger Alexander Triplett, 34, after learning he may have been selling illegally manufactured weapons and serving a search warrant at his home on East 23rd Street.<\/p>\n
According to police, Triplett purchased firearm parts online and assembled firearms at his home.<\/p>\n
During the search, detectives recovered 17 rifles and 15 handguns, along with more than 2,000 rounds of ammunition. Body armor was also seized.<\/p>\n
Triplett was being held without bail after being booked on suspicion of being a felon in possession of a firearm, possession of ammunition by a prohibited person, importing a short-barreled rifle, illegal possession of an assault weapon, possession of a firearm silencer, sale of a large-capacity magazine, selling firearms without a license, criminal storage of a firearm, violent felon in possession of body armor, child endangerment, and confining an animal without adequate care.<\/p>\n
\u201cThrough this investigation, detectives recovered numerous weapons that now cannot be used to harm or victimize our community,\u201d Long Beach Police Chief Wally Hebeish said in a statement.<\/p>\n
Anyone with information about Triplett or the investigation is urged to contact Societal Crimes Detective Martin Wysoki at (562) 570-7221.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Long Beach investigators seized 30 firearms from a home as part of an ongoing crackdown on the possession…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":474537,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[48,52,51,131,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-474536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-long-beach","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474536","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=474536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}