Pedro Castellanos-Aguilar, a 33-year-old deaf <\/b>Long Beach street vendor recently lost his source of income after his ice cream cart was struck on July 4.<\/p>\n
His mother, Josefina Aguilar, said Castellanos has helped supported their family by selling ice cream for over 10 years. The damage has left him unable to work for nearly a week. In the meantime, a GoFundMe has been launched to support him to get back on track.<\/p>\n
The Long Beach Police Department told The Times the following:<\/p>\n
\u201cOn July 4, 2026, at approximately 5:38 p.m., officers were dispatched to the 400 block of Shoreline Village Drive regarding a non-injury traffic collision.\u201d They later added that \u201cofficers assisted with the exchange of information\u201d between the woman and Castellanos and \u201cdid not require a criminal investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pedro Castellanos-Aguilar, a 33-year-old deaf Long Beach street vendor recently lost his source of income after his ice…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":926866,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,89027,67824,373870,6123,59419,373871,619,373872,5991,2961,286548,224,2444,5337,17241,4531,373874,373873],"class_list":["post-926865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-ca","tag-california","tag-cart","tag-castellanos","tag-deaf-street-vendor","tag-driver","tag-exchange","tag-ice-cream-cart","tag-income","tag-josefina-aguilar","tag-july","tag-la","tag-livelihood","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-losangeles","tag-mother","tag-officer","tag-pedro-castellanos-aguilar","tag-shoreline-village-drive"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116899020075131671","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926865","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=926865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/926866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=926865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=926865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=926865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}