LBPD officers pose with a bag of McDonald's taken from a driver in a stolen car. Photo courtesy LBPD.
LBPD officers pose with a bag of McDonald's taken from a driver in a stolen car. Photo courtesy LBPD.

Long Beach police say they pulled over a man who’d been using a stolen car to ferry orders for a food-delivery company.

He was delivering a bag of McDonald’s in West Long Beach when officers stopped him on the afternoon of Oct. 12 on Santa Fe Avenue near 34th Street, according to the LBPD.

The car had been rented in Las Vegas and never returned, LBPD spokeswoman Shaunna Dandoy said.

Officers arrested the 48-year-old driver, who is from Long Beach. He’s since pleaded no contest to one misdemeanor count of unlawfully taking a vehicle, according to court records. Police didn’t reveal what delivery service the man was working for.

Once the driver was arrested, police also took control of the bag of McDonald’s.

“After ensuring the suspect was taken into custody, officers identified the location where the food was going and delivered it to a grateful Long Beach resident,” Dandoy said.

Jeremiah Dobruck is executive editor of the Long Beach Post where he oversees all day-to-day newsroom operations. In his time working as a journalist in Long Beach, he’s won numerous awards for his investigative reporting and editing. Before coming to the Post in 2018, he wrote for publications including the Press-Telegram, Orange County Register and Los Angeles Times. Reach him at [email protected] or @jeremiahdobruck on Twitter.