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Elmer Mercado faces charges including lascivious acts against a minor and molesting a minor. \/ Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department <\/p>\n
WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. – Sheriff’s investigators are currently seeking potential victims of 42-year-old Elmer Mercado, who was arrested in West Hollywood <\/a>on suspicion of committing criminal acts against juveniles.\u00a0<\/p>\n What we know:<\/p>\n Mercado was arrested on Thursday, Oct. 23 by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department<\/a> (LASD).\u00a0<\/p>\n The charges against him include alleged lascivious acts against a minor and annoying and molesting a minor.\u00a0<\/p>\n The investigation began when deputies responded on Tuesday to a call involving two juveniles.\u00a0<\/p>\n The children told authorities that they were walking in the 1000 block of Havenhurst Drive when the suspect followed them and assaulted one of them.<\/p>\n What they’re saying:<\/p>\n Due to the serious nature of the allegations, the LASD is actively reaching out to the public, focusing on the possibility of more incidents involving this suspect in the region.<\/p>\n A sheriff’s department statement confirmed the ongoing investigation and the belief that the case may extend beyond the initial report.\u00a0<\/p>\n What you can do:<\/p>\n Tips can be provided to the sheriff’s Special Victims Bureau’s toll-free tip line at 877-710-5273, or by email at specialvictimsbureau@lasd.org.\u00a0<\/p>\n Tips can also be provided anonymously through crime stoppers at 800-222-tips (8477) or lacrimestoppers.org.<\/p>\n The Source: Information for this story is from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.\u00a0<\/p>\n Crime and Public Safety<\/a>West Hollywood<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article Elmer Mercado faces charges including lascivious acts against a minor and molesting a minor. \/ Los Angeles…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21613,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[1184,2042,48,52,51,47,137,50,49,100,1181,655],"class_list":{"0":"post-21612","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-crime-publicsafety","10":"tag-la","11":"tag-la-headlines","12":"tag-la-news","13":"tag-los-angeles","14":"tag-los-angeles-county","15":"tag-los-angeles-headlines","16":"tag-los-angeles-news","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-west-hollywood"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21612","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=21612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}