Category: Weird

Remains discovered by a family during an independent Easter egg hunt at De Forest Park in Long Beach on Sunday, April 5, were confirmed to be those of a human, the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner’s Office said.

A skeletized human skull and lower jaw bone were recovered from the park Monday, a day after the remains were first reported to Long Beach police, and taken to the Medical Examiner’s Office for further examination, authorities said in a statement.

“Due to the ongoing investigation into the death, limited information is currently available,” the statement read.

The discovery was made at the North Long Beach park about 5 p.m. Sunday while children were looking for Easter eggs, according to police and witnesses.

Police were initially called to the 5900 block of De Forest Avenue, while the Medical Examiner’s Office said the recovery of the remains was made in the 100 block of East Osgood Street.

The cross streets are at an area between the park’s two softball fields and walking trails to the south.

The remains have been assigned a case number, but no further information, including a possible identity, was known.

PACHECO — It was a typical haul for a drug investigation; Police seized $1,631, packaged methamphetamine and marijuana, pepper spray, and the suspected dealer’s cellphone, according to court records.

What made this unusual was where it occurred; court records say police pulled this haul from a suspected methamphetamine dealer’s tent that had been pitched under a bridge in Pacheco, alongside Grayson Creek, where a 61-year-old man was allegedly making a living selling drugs. The suspect denied ownership of the tent, but he was found lying down inside it on March 7, when sheriff’s investigators came looking for him.

Authorities say the Contra Costa County Sheriff’s office was tipped off to the alleged criminal by a confidential informant who has helped police seized more than three pounds of methamphetamine since agreeing to help law enforcement.

The 61-year-old man was arrested in connection with an unrelated warrant for ammunition and drug charges, but his arrest may have led to a lucky break; that case was dismissed at the preliminary hearing, 11 days later, court records show.

Court records say the man has 13 prior drug-related convictions between 1989 and 2024. He hasn’t yet been charged in connection with the March 7 raid, and police haven’t disclosed how much methamphetamine and marijuana they found.