{"id":712140,"date":"2010-04-08T14:58:13","date_gmt":"2010-04-08T18:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c5fcf53ef0133ec8d2623970b"},"modified":"2010-04-08T14:58:13","modified_gmt":"2010-04-08T18:58:13","slug":"lapd-arrests-sexual-assault-suspect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/712140","title":{"rendered":"LAPD Arrests Sexual Assault Suspect"},"content":{"rendered":"<div xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xhtml\">\n<p><strong style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Los<br \/>\n Angeles:<\/span><\/em><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman;\"> Los Angeles<br \/>\npolice have arrested a 48-year-old sexual assault suspect who attacked a<br \/>\n hitchhiker in South Los Angeles.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><o:p>&#0160;<\/o:p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" alt=\"\" border=\"1\" height=\"183\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lapdonline.org\/assets\/news%20releases\/nr-10182-3.jpg?resize=150%2C183\" width=\"150\" \/>Last Saturday,<br \/>\nCharles Reginald Cooks was arrested at his home in the 6600 block of 8<sup>th<\/sup>Avenue.<span>&#0160; <\/span>He was charged with rape and is being held in lieu of<br \/>\n $300,000 bail.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><o:p>&#0160;<\/o:p>On April 3<br \/>\nat around 2 a.m., Cooks picked up a female hitchhiker near Western<br \/>\nAvenue and Martin Luther King Boulevard and drove her to a street near<br \/>\nKoreatown where he sexually assaulted her inside of his van.<span>&#0160; <\/span>Fortunately, the victim was able to escape her<br \/>\nassailant and call police.<span>&#0160; <\/span><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><strong><em><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><o:p>&#0160;<\/o:p><\/span><\/em><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Cooks is described<br \/>\nas male black.<span>&#0160; <\/span>He has black hair, brown eyes,<br \/>\nstands 5 feet 9 inches and weighs 210 pounds.<span>&#0160; <\/span>At<br \/>\nthe time of the assault, he was driving a dark green 1995 Dodge Caravan<br \/>\nminivan with the license plate 3KNJ170. <span>&#0160;<\/span>The<br \/>\ninterior of the vehicle is gray and it has collision damage to the right<br \/>\n front end. <o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><o:p>&#0160;<\/o:p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" alt=\"\" height=\"112\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lapdonline.org\/assets\/news%20releases\/10182-2.jpg?resize=150%2C112\" width=\"150\" \/>LAPD Operations-West Bureau<br \/>\n sexual assault detail detectives suspect there might be<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" alt=\"\" border=\"1\" height=\"114\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lapdonline.org\/assets\/news%20releases\/nr-10182-1.jpg?resize=150%2C114\" width=\"150\" \/> more victims<br \/>\nand are asking them to come forward.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman;\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/span> <br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman;\">Anyone with<br \/>\ninformation regarding this crime is urged to call LAPD\u2019s Operations-West<br \/>\n Bureau Sexual Assault Detail detectives at 213-473-0447. <span>&#0160;<\/span>During<br \/>\n non-business hours or on weekends, calls may be directed to<br \/>\n877-LAPD-24-7.<span>&#0160; <\/span>Anyone wishing to remain anonymous<br \/>\n may call Crimestoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (800-222-8477).<span>&#0160;<br \/>\n <\/span>Tipsters may also contact Crimestoppers by texting to phone<br \/>\nnumber 274637.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles: Los Angeles police have arrested a 48-year-old sexual assault suspect who attacked a hitchhiker in South Los Angeles. &#0160;Last Saturday, Charles Reginald Cooks was arrested at his home in the 6600 block of 8thAvenue.&#0160; He was charged with rape and is being held in lieu of $300,000 bail. &#0160;On April 3 at around [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2644,"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-712140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Zg8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712140","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\/2644"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=712140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=712140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=712140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=712140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}