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Long Beach Blvd. and the 710 Fwy. At 5:25 a.m., police responded to a person with a gun call, finding just that, namely a firearm, leading to the inevitable arrest.

Atlantic Ave. and Pleasant St. At 12:15 p.m., a northbound bicyclist on Atlantic Avenue was merging from the bicycle lane to the number one lane as a northbound white SUV in the number two lane sideswiped the bicyclist and continued northbound without stopping. Taken to a hospital, the bicyclist, Enrique Barajas, an 80-year-old resident of Long Beach succumbed to his injuries.

2600 block of 56th Way. At 12:03 a.m., a fight among men became a more serious incident when one of the combatants fired off a gun, hitting a man in the upper and lower body. The non-victim participants fled the scene.

3800 block of E Second St. At a 10:09 p.m. traffic stop, it was double trouble for the subject of the stop, a DUI arrest and the recovery of two firearms.

23rd St. and Ximeno Ave. At 2:14 a.m., a two-man fight escalated when one of the combatants stabbed the other in a non-life-threatening way to the upper body.

Long Beach Blvd. and 19th St. At 1:55 p.m., a small sedan turned into a Metro A Line train, causing damage to both vehicles. The driver and a passenger in the car both departed on foot while rescue workers helped train passengers.

1000 block of E. Second St. At 8:07 p.m., an armed robbery suspect was found and arrested with a loaded firearm.

Northbound 405 Fwy. to the northbound 605 Fwy. At 1 p.m., a brush fire broke out under the freeway, affecting and closing freeway lanes and was considered dangerous because of dry, windy conditions, “We just threw everything at it,” said a spokesman for the Orange County Fire Authority. It burned a total of one acre of brush in an area confined by concrete pillars and curbing.

According to a motorist, the fire was contained at 2:30 p.m. As with east side traffic that depends on a smooth freeway flow and access, “traffic was backed up on Studebaker northbound from Westminster to Willow.  It took me over an hour and a half.  Fire trucks were going north on Studebaker on the south side because of so much congestion.  It was a nightmare traffic situation.”

Pacific Coast Hwy and Orizaba Ave. At 6 p.m., cut off by another motorist, a motorcyclist “flipped in the air three times.”

Willard St. and Santa Fe Ave. At a 6:16 p.m. traffic stop, the recovery of a firearm, the arrest ensued.

1400 block of Alamitos Ave. A 10:10 p.m., an argument with a known man who stabbed his opponent with non-life-threatening upper body wounds, the victim rushed hospital-bound, the stabber rushed away to the well-known whereabouts not known.

5100 block of Atlantic Ave. At a 10:33 p.m. traffic stop, police located an un-serialized firearm (“ghost gun”), necessitating an arrest.

5900 block of Linden Ave. At a 10:54 p.m. investigation of a group disturbance, police saw several subjects walking away from an occupied vehicle which also held two firearms, an in-car arrest resulted.

1100 block of Redondo Ave. At 11:35 p.m., a man who attempted to intervene in an armed robbery experienced a non-life threatening gunshot wound to the lower body for his good deed.

1700 block of Chestnut Ave. At 6:36 p.m., a man sitting in his car heard what he thought was gunfire, validated by non-life-threatening gunshot wounds to the lower body. Hospital activity followed.

300 block of East Broadway. At 11:50 p.m., two men disputed, one settled the beef by pointing at the co-arguer an un-serialized (“ghost”) gun, making an arrest inevitable.

South St. and Atlantic Ave. At 10:27 p.m., police pulled over a pocket bike, the driver of which was in possession of a concealed firearm, a major no-no. Gun recovered, the arrest, the pocket tow truck tow, wait, no such tow truck. 

Cerritos Ave. and 56th St. At 4:33 a.m., a traffic stop on a vehicle, a found firearm recovered, the driver arrested, the vehicle towed.

1500 block of Pacific Coast Hwy. At 6:01 p.m., a traffic stop, the combination firearm and narcotics in a vehicle equated to an arrest of a prohibited possessor male for narcotics and the gun and a woman for the drugs.

Cherry Ave. and Washington St. At a 8:41 p.m. traffic stop, the male driver fled on foot but was located and taken into custody a short distance away. Perhaps the flight had to do with the firearm in the vehicle. You think?

McNab Ave. and Spring St. At 11:30 p.m., an online post described “a group of kids in hoodies were running house to house pounding on doors and then running off. If your teens weren’t home, you need to check where they were last night. This is not okay. People were scared.” To this, a member contributed a unique solution, “Time to ban juvenile hoodies.”