{"id":502616,"date":"2026-02-27T07:55:28","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T07:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/502616\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T07:55:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T07:55:28","slug":"missing-woman-27-sought-by-ottawa-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/502616\/","title":{"rendered":"Missing woman, 27, sought by Ottawa police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Ottawa Police Service said Thursday it was trying to locate an Indigenous woman who hadn\u2019t been seen in three weeks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Dezzi Kakepetum, 27, was last seen Feb. 6 in the area between Rideau Street and Strathcona Park in Sandy Hill, but she was only reported missing on Feb. 26, an OPS media release said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Kakepetum was described as standing approximately five feet six inches tall, pregnant, with dark brown eyes and dark brown, shoulder-length hair.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Anyone with information about her whereabouts was asked to call the OPS at 613-236-1222 ext. 7300.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\" A second photo issued by the Ottawa Police Service with a missing person notice for Dezzi\u00a0Kakepetum, 27.\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"470\" height=\"707\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/17c1b1a5a4901699c12b19bb59d643e3.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p> A second photo issued by the Ottawa Police Service with a missing person notice for Dezzi Kakepetum, 27.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Our website is your destination for up-to-the-minute news, so make sure to bookmark our <a href=\"https:\/\/ottawacitizen.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:homepage;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">homepage<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/ottawacitizen.com\/newsletters\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:sign up for our newsletters;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">sign up for our newsletters<\/a>\u00a0so we can keep you informed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Ottawa Police Service said Thursday it was trying to locate an Indigenous woman who hadn\u2019t been seen&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":502617,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,200704,200705,20739,194792],"class_list":["post-502616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-dezzi-kakepetum","tag-missing-person","tag-ottawa","tag-ottawa-police-service"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}