{"id":134876,"date":"2026-01-15T17:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T17:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/134876\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T17:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T17:00:09","slug":"chp-intercepts-cadillac-after-armed-kidnapping-report-in-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/134876\/","title":{"rendered":"CHP intercepts Cadillac after armed kidnapping report in Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Two people were taken into custody early Thursday after California Highway Patrol officers helped intercept an apparent armed kidnapping in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The report involved a white Cadillac SUV traveling southbound on the 405 Freeway in the San Fernando Valley around 2 a.m., according to the CHP.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The initial call indicated that several armed men forced another man into the Cadillac at gunpoint. It was unclear where the suspects abducted the victim.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Officers eventually located the vehicle and stopped it at a gas station on the 16500 block of Victory Boulevard in the Lake Balboa neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The CHP confirmed that two people were detained at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Authorities have not released a possible motive for the kidnapping or said whether the victim was injured.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Los Angeles Police Department is involved in the investigation, according to a CHP spokesperson.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ktla.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KTLA.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KTLA. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two people were taken into custody early Thursday after California Highway Patrol officers helped intercept an apparent armed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134877,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[68874,52734,859,48,52,51,47,50,49,3843,7611],"class_list":["post-134876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-armed-men","tag-cadillac","tag-california-highway-patrol","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-los-angeles-police-department","tag-san-fernando-valley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}