Police Charge Long Beach Teen with Armed Robbery, Assault

Long Beach police arrested a Long Beech teen and charged him with armed robbery with a deadly weapon and assault after an incident at a long vacant home in the North Park section of the city last week.

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On March 1 at about 2:40 p.m., three men went to 66 E. Pine St., believing they were going to look at a computer offered for sale, according to the Long Beach Police Department. When two of the men entered the home they were forced to the floor by two male subjects wearing masks, one wielding a shotgun and the other armed with a revolver, and one man was assaulted and robbed.

“One victim was beaten with the shotgun, sustaining non-life threatening injuries requiring emergency medical treatment at South Nassau [Communities] Hospital [in Oceanside],” Lt. Eric Cregeen, an LBPD spokesman, said in a statement. “The assailants rifled through the pockets of the victims and demanded cash. The victims were robbed of money, jewelry and other items on their person.”

Soon after this incident, police officers patrolling the area stopped Jordan Ayala, 17, of Long Beach, at Riverside Boulevard and East Market Street, where he was positively identified as an assailant, Cregeen said.

Ayala was charged with forcible robbery with a deadly weapon, robbery aided by another, robbery causing physical injury, assault and criminal use of a firearm.
He was arraigned in Long Beach City Court on March 2 and was held in lieu of $200,000 bail.

According to LBPD Det. Lt. Stefan Chernaski, Long Beach detectives recovered a shotgun and a revolver that may have been used in the robbery. Police also determined that the home at 66 E. Pine has been vacant for some time.

An investigation is ongoing and anyone with information is asked to call the LBPD Tip line at 516-705-7370. All calls will remain anonymous.

“On behalf of the City Council, I would like to compliment Commissioner [Michael] Tangney and the entire police force for the quick apprehension of the alleged perpetrator of this criminal act,” Scott Mandel, president of the Long Beach City Council, said in a statement. “The LBPD has done, and continues to do, a tremendous job in reducing crime in our city.”

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