{"id":280561,"date":"2026-04-22T17:29:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T17:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/280561\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T17:29:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T17:29:07","slug":"lapd-steps-up-patrols-at-silver-lake-reservoir-after-two-women-are-groped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/280561\/","title":{"rendered":"LAPD steps up patrols at Silver Lake Reservoir after two women are groped"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Police are looking for a man who has groped at least two women recently at the Silver Lake Reservoir.<\/p>\n<p>The first sexual battery was reported on March 25, at approximately 8:45 p.m., when a man approached a 25-year-old woman from behind and groped her before fleeing in an unknown direction, Los Angeles police said in a news release.<\/p>\n<p>A second similar assault took place on Saturday  around 5 p.m. when a 33-year-old woman said a man approached her  from behind,   groped her breast and fled the area, police said. <\/p>\n<p>Police describe the suspect as a male with a large build but offered no other specifics.<\/p>\n<p>In response, the LAPD has increased patrols in the area, including additional uniformed officers and foot patrols, in an effort to deter further incidents and reassure the public, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The Silver Lake Reservoir is a popular destination for <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/health\/la-he-la-walks-silver-lake-reservoir-20190413-story.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">joggers and walkers<\/a> and has been considered a relatively safe public space for the Los Angeles community. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are looking for a man who has groped at least two women recently at the Silver Lake&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":280562,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[120780,599,48,52,51,5015,120781,47,50,49,63,13549,1555,224,14308,1410,236,595,120779,120778,1557],"class_list":{"0":"post-280561","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-additional-uniformed-officer","9":"tag-area","10":"tag-la","11":"tag-la-headlines","12":"tag-la-news","13":"tag-lapd","14":"tag-large-build","15":"tag-los-angeles","16":"tag-los-angeles-headlines","17":"tag-los-angeles-news","18":"tag-los-angeles-times","19":"tag-male","20":"tag-man","21":"tag-p-m","22":"tag-patrol","23":"tag-place","24":"tag-police","25":"tag-saturday","26":"tag-second-similar-assault","27":"tag-silver-lake-reservoir","28":"tag-woman"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280561","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=280561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}