The Long Beach Police Department (LBPD) announced a significant drop in Part 1 (violent & property) crimes for 2017. Total Part 1 crime was down 7.9 percent from 2016.
Player of the Week: Gabe Levin, Men’s Basketball – Senior Gabe Levin scored a career-high 29 points against CSUN, and again led the team with 18 points at UC Riverside as the Beach went 2-0 on the week. Levin averaged 23.5 points and 8.5 rebounds per game over the two games.
Player of the Week: TJ DeFalco, Men’s Volleyball – TJ DeFalco led No. 2 LBSU to a 4-0 start to the season and was named to the UCSB ASICS All-Tournament Team after finishing the week averaging 3.31 kills per set.
On Friday, Jan. 5, at 12:50 a.m., officers were dispatched to the Holiday Inn at Lakewood Boulevard and Willow Street regarding a person with a gun call, which resulted in an officer-involved shooting.
ST. MARY MEDICAL CENTER welcomed the first baby of the New Year on Jan. 1 to Long Beach residents, Christina Yem (mother) and Rodtanna Onn (father). Baby girl, Ava Yem, was delivered by Dr. Michael Cogan at 12:35 a.m. weighing 9 pounds 14 ounces and 20 inches long.
The Long Beach City Council is scheduled to vote Jan. 16 on whether to approve a proposal that would involve consolidating oil drilling operations in the Los Cerritos Wetlands to nearby sites and restoring the degraded marsh back to its natural habitat.
The New Year 2017 began with the January 1 closing of Baja Sonora on Clark Avenue, replaced by a taco truck. Word from the operators of Time Square was to expect a return in nine months. Right.
2400 block of Ostrom Ave. At 3:10 p.m., a porch pirate garbed in a white hoodie escaped with a package in a white truck, which matched all the other white trucks in the vicinity, most of them as innocent as their color
