{"id":347490,"date":"2010-02-21T17:40:49","date_gmt":"2010-02-21T22:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef01310f26fb6d970c"},"modified":"2010-02-21T18:28:52","modified_gmt":"2010-02-21T23:28:52","slug":"man-arrested-in-connection-with-child-abduction-updated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/347490","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested in connection with child abduction [Updated]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nA man was arrested Sunday on suspicion of kidnapping a 6-year-old boy on a Metropolitan Transportation Authority bus, authorities said. [<strong>Updated 2:50 p.m.:<\/strong> The child was a girl.]\n<\/p>\n<p>\nA homeless woman boarded a bus with her son about 4 a.m. near downtown and fell asleep, Sheriff\u2019s Capt. Mike Parker said. When she woke up, the child was gone, he said.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe woman alerted the driver, who notified the MTA dispatch center and the Los Angeles County Sheriff&#8217;s Department&#8217;s Transit Services Bureau.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSeveral passengers were believed to have been on the bus at the time, Parker said.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWhen authorities put out a bulletin about the incident, a driver on another route called in saying that he had two people matching the description of the man and child on his bus.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSheriff\u2019s deputies intercepted the bus and arrested the man about 6 a.m., Parker said. The child was returned to his mother. [<strong>Updated 2:53 p.m.: <\/strong>The girl was taken into protective custody, not returned to her mother.]\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8212; Andrew Blankstein\n<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man was arrested Sunday on suspicion of kidnapping a 6-year-old boy on a Metropolitan Transportation Authority bus, authorities said. [Updated 2:50 p.m.: The child was a girl.] A homeless woman boarded a bus with her son about 4 a.m. near downtown and fell asleep, Sheriff\u2019s Capt. Mike Parker said. When she woke up, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5746,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-347490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347490","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\/5746"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}