{"id":464961,"date":"2010-03-23T17:41:51","date_gmt":"2010-03-23T21:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef01310fd1c96b970c"},"modified":"2010-03-23T17:41:51","modified_gmt":"2010-03-23T21:41:51","slug":"lapd-seeks-accomplice-in-jewelry-district-kidnapping-robbery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/464961","title":{"rendered":"LAPD seeks accomplice in jewelry district kidnapping-robbery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c630a53ef01310fd265a2970c-pi\" style=\"float: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A composite image of the suspect, who goes by the name &quot;Pacho.&quot; Credit: LAPD\" class=\"asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d8341c630a53ef01310fd265a2970c \" src=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c630a53ef01310fd265a2970c-250wi\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px; width: 250px;\" title=\"A composite image of the suspect, who goes by the name &quot;Pacho.&quot; Credit: LAPD\"><\/img><\/a> Los Angeles police\u00a0released a composite sketch Tuesday of a suspect in a kidnap-for-robbery incident earlier this month\u00a0in downtown Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>Detectives with LAPD Central Division arrested Erika Orenday last Friday in\u00a0El Monte in connection with the kidnapping-robbery of\u00a0a 46-year-old jewelry store employee, said Lt. Paul Vernon<\/p>\n<p>Her accomplice\u00a0is decribed as a Latino man\u00a0in his late 20s or early 30s, who goes by the name \u201cPacho,\u201d\u00a0and wears\u00a0a goatee and closely-cropped hair,\u00a0Vernon said.\u00a0The suspect is known to cross over the Mexican border frequently, police said.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>According to police, the victim was leaving her job in the jewelry district March 5 around 6 p.m. when Orenday, a former employee,\u00a0approached her\u00a0car and told her she had information about her children, but did not elaborate. \u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>When the victim let Orenday in her car, she allegedly called the accomplice. The victim was tied up and put in the backseat while the two suspects drove to one\u00a0or more motels, Vernon said.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He said\u00a0the suspects\u00a0told the woman they had accomplices with her children and that\u00a0the children\u00a0would be harmed unless the woman paid them. <\/p>\n<p>When the suspects realized the woman&#8217;s children were not at home, they left the victim in\u00a0a motel room, Vernon said. The woman, who was not injured, reported the crime the same night.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is asked to call the Central Division Robbery Unit, at (213) 972-1245.\u00a0 Anonymous tips can be called into Crimestoppers at 800-222-TIPS (8477), or by texting 274637 (C-R-I-M-E-S on most keypads) with a cellphone.\u00a0 All text messages should begin with the letters\u201cLAPD.\u201d\u00a0 Online tips may be placed at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.LAPDOnline.org\">www.LAPDOnline.org<\/a>, click on \u201cweb tips\u201d and follow the prompts.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Andrew Blankstein<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: A composite image of the suspect, who goes by the name &quot;Pacho.&quot; Credit: LAPD<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles police\u00a0released a composite sketch Tuesday of a suspect in a kidnap-for-robbery incident earlier this month\u00a0in downtown Los Angeles. Detectives with LAPD Central Division arrested Erika Orenday last Friday in\u00a0El Monte in connection with the kidnapping-robbery of\u00a0a 46-year-old jewelry store employee, said Lt. Paul Vernon Her accomplice\u00a0is decribed as a Latino man\u00a0in his late [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5471,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-464961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464961","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\/5471"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=464961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464961\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}