🌱 7 Commercial Burglary Arrests + Meet The Long Beach Pinball League

Welcome back, Long Beach, and snack along on National Cheese Doodle Day! I'm here in your inbox per usual to tell you everything you need to know that's going on in town. Today you'll read about these stories and more:

• ⚠️ Carjacking suspect leads cops on a wild chase.
• ⭐️ Lucius Martin is the deputy mayor for economic development.
• 🤝 The city’s Mobile Assistance Center shares successes.

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☁️ But first, today's weather:

Rather cloudy, a shower; cool. High: 59 Low: 47.

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⛽ Three of the Cheapest Gas Stations in the City of Long Beach

• American Oil at 6850 Long Beach Blvd., $4.15
• ARCO at 1785 Bellflower Blvd., $4.29
• Sam’s Club at 7480 Carson St., $4.33

😋 Fair Food Poll!
Fair food is the ultimate cheat meal. Although we all know it’s unhealthy, everyone has a guilty pleasure. Which is your favorite? So far, 57.1% admit to loving funnel cake, 14.3% snack on fried cheese curds, and 14.3% each wrote in cheesecake and cotton candy!

📰 Here are the top stories in Long Beach today:

1. The Long Beach Police Department (LBPD) made seven arrests due to increased patrolling after the recent string of 23 commercial burglaries in the city. Suspects were caught in burglaries at 71 Aquarium Way, 809 West 15th Street, the 1100 block of East Market Street and 455 East Ocean Boulevard. “Officers said they believe three different groups are responsible for the series of burglaries” they originally set out to investigate, and will continue to search for them. (Long Beach Patch)
2. Were you caught up in Friday’s crazy police pursuit? It all started as an attempted reckless driving traffic stop in Chino. The 44-year-old driver fled, headed to the Shell at 1550 East Ontario Street in Corona, and carjacked a truck. Next, he headed to Anaheim, took the freeway, and got off around Woodruff Avenue. He took that down toward Lakewood, where he thankfully stopped for students from Mayfair High School who were crossing the street. The chase continued to Harbor City and a crash at the intersection of Western Avenue and 253rd Street. The suspect tried to carjack another vehicle, but the police arrested him on 252nd Street. (Long Beach Post)
3. Mayor Rex Richardson appointed Lucius Martin to the newly created role of “deputy mayor for economic development” on Thursday. Martin was head of Long Beach’s Economic Development Department and is expected to focus on the “Grow Long Beach” initiative that envelops “aerospace, goods movement, tourism, education and health care.” We are still waiting to hear whom the mayor will appoint as deputy mayor for housing. (Newsbreak)
4. The city’s Mobile Assistance Center (MAC) has a set schedule for reaching out to the homeless between the hours of 9 a.m. and 12 p.m. Locations of interaction are the Los Altos Market Center, Houghton Park, the Billie Jean King Main Library, and the corner of Bellflower Boulevard and 23rd Street. As of February 27, MAC interacted with 414 unhoused neighbors, connected 204 to services, and reunited one woman with family after “city employees saw her on a missing person's report.” (Office of Mayor Rex Richardson)
5. Did you know that we have a Long Beach Pinball League? Did you also know that you can participate, if you like? Each Tuesday, the fans of the retro game head to the Long Beach Beer Lab at 7:30 p.m. to play. So far, an estimated 30 players meet at the venue’s easterly corner, where 10 machines await the friendly competition. “People make friends here,” one of the organizers says. Best of all, the league is open to players of all skill levels! (Signal Tribune)

📆 Today in Long Beach:

• Casa De Si hosts a Group Transcendation hybrid event (9 AM)
• Bring the kids to see PAW Patrol Live at the Terrace Theater (10 AM)
• Have R&Brunch at Shannon's At The Top (11 AM)
• Celebrate Purim at the Alpert JCC on the Weinberg Jewish Long Beach Campus (12:30 PM)
• Hear MOFAYA perform at DiPiazza's (3 PM)

🖊️ From my notebook:

• "Nothing quite like being back in the ‘Mid AND getting a WIN 💥 A week away from you was way too long, LB Nation, but you ALWAYS. SHOW. UP." (Long Beach State Athletics via Instagram)
• "As part of our commitment to transparency, we would like to share that we’ve updated the Police Stop Data Portal to include data from 2021, as part of the Racial and Identity Profiling Act (RIPA)." (Long Beach Police Department (CA) via Facebook)
• "Californians impacted by December and January storms now have more time to file state taxes. - In alignment with the IRS, California has extended the due date to October 16, 2023. " (CalOSBA)
• "DYK HPV causes thousands of preventable cancers in the United States? The HPV vaccine can prevent most of these cancers from ever developing. Kids can get HPV vaccine starting at age 9 to protect them from cancer-causing infections and pre-cancers." (Long Beach Health Department)
• "Today, Fisker shared what some people had already confirmed to be true. Fisker Oceans were delivered to the Long Beach Port earlier this week. About a dozen electric SUVs arrived by a shipping vessel named Poseidon Leader." (Fiskerati)

🏡 What are homes selling for these days in Long Beach?

• Median Listing Home Price $720K
• Median Listing Home Price/Square Foot $603
• Median Sold Home Price $725K

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— Sylvia Cochran

About me: Sylvia Cochran works out of sunny Southern California and has been freelance writing full-time since 2005. She loves dogs, cats, books, plays Best Fiends (don't judge), embraces social justice, and tries to live out Micah 6:8.

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