{"id":87887,"date":"2025-08-22T04:42:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T04:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/87887\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T04:42:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T04:42:08","slug":"burnaby-rcmp-warn-public-after-woman-allegedly-groped-in-central-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/87887\/","title":{"rendered":"Burnaby RCMP warn public after woman allegedly groped in Central Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mounties in Burnaby say they are issuing a warning after a woman was allegedly groped by a man in Central Park Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Police say the woman had been walking alone on the trails shortly before 7:30 p.m. when she was approached by a stranger.<\/p>\n<p>The man made inappropriate sexual contact with the woman and then ran away to another area of the park, the Burnaby RCMP said.<\/p>\n<p>The woman was uninjured and reported the incident to police immediately. The victim and suspect did not know each other.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur investigative teams are actively working to identify the suspect in this incident,\u201d said Supt. Sunny Parmar.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have engaged our Community Response and Bike Teams for enhanced patrols in the area.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Burnaby-Central-Park-3-1024x576.png\" alt=\"Central Park in Burnaby on Thursday August 21, 2025.\" class=\"wp-image-4312195\"  \/>(CityNews Image)<\/p>\n<p>The suspect is described as being around 35 to 45 years old and approximately 5\u20196\u2033 with a slim build, brown eyes, and no facial hair. He was wearing a white hoodie, black shorts, and a multicoloured windbreaker.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who witnessed the incident or who has information about the suspect is asked to call the Burnaby RCMP at 604-646-9999 and refer to file 2025-29345.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mounties in Burnaby say they are issuing a warning after a woman was allegedly groped by a man&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":87888,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-87887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87887","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=87887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}