Cops: Long Beach Woman Pushed Elderly Mother Down Stairs

Marlene Maggiore, a 46-year-old Long Beach resident, was arrested and charged with attempted murder after police said she pushed her 78-year-old mother down a flight of stairs in their East End home last week.

According to the Long Beach Police Department, police answer a call at 5:19 p.m. on Oct. 9 about a domestic dispute at a home on Neptune Boulevard, where Leonard Maggiore told officers at the scene that his daughter pushed his wife, Josephine, down a flight of stairs.  

Josephine sustained three broken ribs, lacerations and swelling to the back of her head and pain in her left shoulder, and the Long Beach Fire Department transported her to Long Beach Medical Center, according to police.  

Eric Cregeen, the department’s public information officer, said that he didn’t have information on either the number of stairs involved in the Josephine’s fall, nor their location in the house. Cregeen said Maggiore was charged with attempted murder based on the police investigation of the incident, but he couldn’t provide details about the nature of the dispute.

“If she intended to cause death and she caused death, then it’s murder,” Cregeen explained. “If her intent was to cause death and she didn’t cause it, then that’s attempted murder. If her intent was to seriously injure her and she was injured, than the charge would be assault.”  

Maggiore is listed as residing at 217 Neptune Blvd. with her mother and father, according to whitepages.com.