{"id":155146,"date":"2025-08-18T07:24:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T07:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/155146\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T07:24:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T07:24:17","slug":"2-new-yorkers-zip-tied-socal-residents-during-break-in-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/155146\/","title":{"rendered":"2 New Yorkers zip-tied SoCal residents during break-in, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A pair of New Yorkers were arrested in Redondo Beach on Sunday morning on suspicion of breaking into a home and tying up two residents for \u201can extended period of time,\u201d authorities said. <\/p>\n<p>Redondo Beach police received a 911 call just before 6 a.m., according to a news release issued by the department. The unidentified caller said someone was pointing a gun at another person inside a vehicle. The caller hung up, but police traced the call to a residence in the 1900 block of Matthews Avenue, according to the release.<\/p>\n<p>When they arrived, officers learned that two residents on the block had been victims of a home invasion robbery.<\/p>\n<p>Jesus Velez, 31, of Rochester, N.Y., and Draven Luna, 21, from New York City were found a short time later in the area and arrested without incident, police said. They were booked on suspicion of robbery, kidnapping and burglary.<\/p>\n<p>The victims, who were not identified, had been bound inside the home \u201cfor an extended period of time\u201d before the 911 call, authorities said. Both suffered non-life-threatening injuries, and one was taken to a hospital, according to police, who said they were in stable condition. <\/p>\n<p>A case will be presented to the Los Angeles County district attorney\u2019s office this week, police said. <\/p>\n<p>In 2015, Velez pleaded guilty to weapons and drug charges in Rochester, according to a statement issued by the <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-wdny\/pr\/rochester-man-admits-carrying-gun-while-selling-drugs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">U.S. attorney\u2019s office for the Western District of New York. <\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A pair of New Yorkers were arrested in Redondo Beach on Sunday morning on suspicion of breaking into&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":155147,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[7611,48490,1582,276,13136,90531,90532,2961,224,5337,85824,3215,1812,7207,90530,879,69602,6620,90533,7307],"class_list":{"0":"post-155146","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-block","9":"tag-break-in","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-california","12":"tag-call","13":"tag-extended-period","14":"tag-jesus-velez","15":"tag-la","16":"tag-los-angeles","17":"tag-losangeles","18":"tag-new-yorkers","19":"tag-news-release","20":"tag-office","21":"tag-police","22":"tag-redondo-beach-resident","23":"tag-rochester","24":"tag-suspicion","25":"tag-time","26":"tag-unidentified-caller","27":"tag-victim"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115048577458918699","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}