Police on Friday arrested a man and a 15-year-old boy on suspicion of robbing a boy and a local business near the Long Beach Police Department West Division station, authorities said.
Police were called to the scene at about 1:15 p.m. about a strong-arm robbery against a person at 19th Street and Santa Fe Avenue, police spokeswoman Jennifer De Prez said.
Officers found one suspect, a juvenile, when they got there and saw another suspect, a man, running east on Summit Street from Canal Avenue, she said.
Officers set up a containment perimeter and used police dogs and a helicopter to help find the man, who was later found near a house at West 20th Street and Canal Avenue. At one point, the man tried to enter a house, according to De Prez.
An officer used a Taser-like weapon to detain him and he was transported to a local hospital with non-life threatening injuries, she said.
“The preliminary investigation revealed that the two suspects robbed a local business and shortly thereafter stole a backpack from a victim, a juvenile male, near the business,” De Prez said.
Police did not disclose the address of the business that was robbed. The name of the man was not been released because he hadn’t yet been booked, officials said.