{"id":206112,"date":"2026-03-05T20:32:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T20:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/206112\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T20:32:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T20:32:07","slug":"mother-and-daughter-fight-off-attacker-in-brazen-anaheim-kidnapping-attempt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/206112\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother and daughter fight off attacker in brazen Anaheim kidnapping attempt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/jose-gudino.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">ANAHEIM, Calif. &#8211; A man is in custody after a harrowing attempted kidnapping in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxla.com\/tag\/us\/ca\/orange-county\/anaheim\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Anaheim<\/a> Wednesday afternoon thwarted by a vigilant mother and her teenage daughter.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KTTV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">The incident occurred around noon near the intersection of Lincoln Avenue and East Street, according to police.<\/p>\n<p data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">An investigation revealed the mother and her 15-year-old daughter were walking on the sidewalk when the suspect, identified as Jose Gudino, allegedly jumped out of the bushes and ambushed them.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">The mother and daughter managed to break free from his grasp and immediately called 911 with a detailed physical description.<\/p>\n<p data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">Gudino was located and arrested by police within two hours. He was booked on felony charges including kidnapping and attempted sexual assault.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KTTV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">What&#8217;s next:<\/p>\n<p data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">Gudino remains in custody as the Orange County District Attorney\u2019s office reviews the case for formal filing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">Investigators are looking into whether Gudino has any connection to similar unsolved incidents in the North Orange County area.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KTTV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">What you can do:<\/p>\n<p data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">If you witnessed this incident or have additional surveillance footage from the area, you are urged to contact the Anaheim PD.<\/p>\n<p data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">Local authorities are also reminding residents to remain vigilant of their surroundings and to call 911 immediately if they observe suspicious behavior or feel they are being followed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: This report is based on information from the Anaheim Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxla.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxla.com\/tag\/us\/ca\/orange-county\/anaheim\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Anaheim<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article ANAHEIM, Calif. &#8211; A man is in custody after a harrowing attempted kidnapping in Anaheim Wednesday afternoon&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":206113,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,1184,2042,100,611,1181],"class_list":["post-206112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-ca","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-news","tag-orange-county","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206112","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=206112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}