{"id":652343,"date":"2010-02-02T17:28:50","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T22:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef012877541036970c"},"modified":"2010-02-02T17:28:51","modified_gmt":"2010-02-02T22:28:51","slug":"man-suspected-of-kidnapping-molesting-4-girls-in-mid-city-held-on-4-million-bail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/652343","title":{"rendered":"Man suspected of kidnapping, molesting 4 girls in Mid-City held on $4-million bail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A two-year manhunt for a man who kidnapped and molested four girls in the Mid-City neighborhood of Los Angeles has ended in the arrest of a 41-year-old Hollywood man, police officials said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel Merino was arrested on suspicion of kidnapping for sexual assault after detectives scoured thousands of license plates recorded by the Los Angeles Police Department&#8217;s new license plate-reading vehicles. Through that search, they found a match to a car that possibly belonged to the suspect.<\/p>\n<p>Detectives from the robbery-homicide division staked out the block where the car was located in 600 block of North Kingsley Drive.<br \/>\n On Jan. 29, they spotted Merino getting into the car and driving into a parking garage.<\/p>\n<p>Eight hours later, detectives arrested him and found evidence that they said connected him to the four attacks. He is being held on $4-million bail.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Richard Winton<\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/lanow\/2010\/02\/los-angeles-police-arrest-man-suspected-of-molesting-girls-in-mid-city-area.html\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"L.A. police arrest man suspected of molesting girls in Mid-City area\">L.A. police arrest man suspected of molesting girls in Mid-City<br \/>\narea<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A two-year manhunt for a man who kidnapped and molested four girls in the Mid-City neighborhood of Los Angeles has ended in the arrest of a 41-year-old Hollywood man, police officials said Tuesday. Daniel Merino was arrested on suspicion of kidnapping for sexual assault after detectives scoured thousands of license plates recorded by the Los [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-652343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2JHF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=652343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}