A young man arrested along with three teenage boys following the armed robbery of a Long Beach ice cream truck was being held Monday in lieu of $50,000 bail, police reported.
Officers were dispatched to the 2400 block of Pasadena Avenue, near East Burnett Street, in Long Beach about 5 p.m. Sunday, where the ice cream truck’s operator told them that four people had robbed him of merchandise, according to Officer Tonya Dean of the Long Beach Police Department.
Three 16-year-old suspects were found at an unidentified location and detained, and officers went to a nearby home, where they believed the fourth suspect had fled, Dean said.
A SWAT team was called to the location, but the suspect, identified as 20-year-old Isaac Perez-Benitez of Long Beach, surrendered to police before the team arrived, according to Dean. No firearm was recovered, he said.
Perez-Benitez was booked at the Long Beach City Jail on suspicion of robbery and assault with a deadly weapon.
The juvenile suspects were booked and released to their guardians on a promise to appear in court at a date yet to be scheduled.