{"id":671224,"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.com\/index\/671224","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":3772,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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-671224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2OCc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671224","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\/3772"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=671224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}