{"id":55972,"date":"2025-11-16T19:04:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T19:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/55972\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T19:04:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T19:04:06","slug":"woman-arrested-for-allegedly-stabbing-man-in-long-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/55972\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman Arrested for Allegedly Stabbing Man in Long Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A woman was arrested on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon for allegedly stabbing a man during a dispute in Long Beach Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The man, who suffered a non-life-threatening wound to the upper body, was taken to a hospital with stable vital signs, the Long Beach Police Department reported.<\/p>\n<p>Officers dispatched at about 2 a.m. Sunday to the 6000 block of Cherry Avenue contacted the victim prior to the arrival of paramedics. The woman remained at the scene as well, police said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPreliminary investigation revealed that the victim and the suspect were involved in a dispute that escalated when the suspect stabbed the victim,\u201d according to a police statement. \u201cThe suspect was arrested and transported to the Long Beach City Jail.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Melissa Mendoza, 42, was arrested on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon and inflicting corporal injury to a spouse\/cohabitant. Her bail was set at $50,000 and the investigation was ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman was arrested on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon for allegedly stabbing a man during&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31138,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[1051,2040,174,131,133,132,1878,1557],"class_list":{"0":"post-55972","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-long-beach","8":"tag-allegedly","9":"tag-arrested","10":"tag-beach","11":"tag-long-beach","12":"tag-long-beach-headlines","13":"tag-long-beach-news","14":"tag-stabbing","15":"tag-woman"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55972","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=55972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}