{"id":245577,"date":"2026-03-31T20:26:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T20:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/245577\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T20:26:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T20:26:14","slug":"indecent-exposure-case-at-whole-foods-in-valencia-under-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/245577\/","title":{"rendered":"Indecent exposure case at Whole Foods in Valencia under investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>What began as a routine day of shopping in Valencia quickly turned into a disturbing encounter that has prompted a law enforcement investigation.<\/p>\n<p>The Los Angeles County Sheriff\u2019s Department\u2019s Santa Clarita Valley station is searching for a man accused of approaching a woman inside a Whole Foods store on Valencia Boulevard on March 23, between 7:30 p.m. and 8 p.m., and committing a lewd act, disappearing before authorities could be alerted.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect approached the woman unprovoked while she was inside the store shopping. <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/ktla.com\/video\/man-exposes-himself-to-woman-inside-valencia-whole-foods\/11651565\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Surveillance footage<\/a> shows the man exposing himself and making unwanted physical contact with the woman while she is squatting and looking at items on a shelf, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson from Whole Foods told The Times in a statement: \u201cWe are deeply concerned about the incident that occurred at our Valencia store on March 23. The safety and well-being of our customers is our top priority.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The store has provided all requested information to law enforcement and is fully cooperating with the Sheriff\u2019s Department in its investigation, the Whole Foods spokesperson said. <\/p>\n<p>Investigators describe the suspect as a man in his 30s with black hair and brown eyes, about 6 feet tall and weighing 220 pounds. During the incident, he was wearing a denim shirt and jeans.<\/p>\n<p>Officials say there have been no confirmed reports of similar incidents nearby and that an investigation  is underway. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What began as a routine day of shopping in Valencia quickly turned into a disturbing encounter that has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245578,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[6577,6246,4456,109871,348,48,52,51,109870,47,50,49,1555,2959,26719,11515,2131,3306,109869,50203,1557],"class_list":["post-245577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-authority","tag-department","tag-incident","tag-indecent-exposure-case","tag-investigation","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-law-enforcement-investigation","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-man","tag-march","tag-shelf","tag-shopping","tag-suspect","tag-valencia","tag-valencia-store","tag-whole-foods","tag-woman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245577","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=245577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}