{"id":336523,"date":"2010-02-18T11:48:10","date_gmt":"2010-02-18T16:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a8b21c10970b"},"modified":"2010-02-18T14:55:55","modified_gmt":"2010-02-18T19:55:55","slug":"l-a-police-seek-publics-help-in-capturing-christmas-day-rapist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/336523","title":{"rendered":"L.A. police seek public&#8217;s help in capturing Christmas Day rapist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles police asked for the public\u2019s help Thursday in finding the man who raped a 15-year-old girl in <a href=\"http:\/\/projects.latimes.com\/mapping-la\/neighborhoods\/neighborhood\/echo-park\/\">Echo Park<\/a> on Christmas Day. <\/p>\n<p>The girl was walking in a secluded area near Echo Park Lake about 7:30 p.m.\u00a0when she encountered the man, who raped her then fled the scene, police said. The girl was treated at a hospital.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect is described as a man in his 20s, possibly Latino, about 6 feet tall and between 160 and 170 pounds. He wore prescription glasses and was last seen wearing a black, hooded sweat shirt with white horizontal stripes, and he had a piercing on his lower lip.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lapdonline.org\/lapd_tv\/content_basic_view\/44129\">Video of the suspect<\/a> was captured by a surveillance camera at a nearby liquor store.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUsually in our cases, where there is a later date, the detectives were following some leads and they probably have exhausted all of them, so they\u2019re turning to the public for help,\u201d said LAPD Officer Norma Eisenman.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information about the attack or the suspect should call sexual assault detectives at the LAPD\u2019s Rampart Station at (213) 484-3624. During non-business hours, call 1-877-LAPD-24-7. <\/p>\n<p>&#8212; My-Thuan Tran <\/p>\n<p><strong>More breaking news in L.A. Now:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/lanow\/2010\/02\/landslide-closes-10-freeway-interchange-in-pomona.html\" style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Landslide closes 10 Freeway interchange in Pomona<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/lanow\/2010\/02\/new-storm-moving-in-to-southern-california.html\" style=\"font-size: 14px;\">New storm moving in to Southern California<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/lanow\/2010\/02\/oc-seeking-solutions-to-55-freeway-gridlock.html\" style=\"font-size: 14px;\">O.C. seeking solutions to 55 Freeway gridlock<\/a><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles police asked for the public\u2019s help Thursday in finding the man who raped a 15-year-old girl in Echo Park on Christmas Day. The girl was walking in a secluded area near Echo Park Lake about 7:30 p.m.\u00a0when she encountered the man, who raped her then fled the scene, police said. The girl was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5470,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-336523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5470"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}