{"id":300934,"date":"2026-05-05T15:29:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T15:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/300934\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T15:29:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T15:29:08","slug":"woman-to-receive-25000-reward-for-helping-locate-missing-78-year-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/300934\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman To Receive $25,000 Reward For Helping Locate Missing 78-Year-Old"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A $25,000 reward will be presented Tuesday by the fully volunteer emergency medical response organization Hatzolah to a Huntington Park woman who helped locate a missing 78-year-old woman who had been the subject of a Silver Alert.<\/p>\n<p>Jeanne Rus Litvin was reported missing April 15 after last being seen near Alta Vista Boulevard and Second Street in the Fairfax district, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. A coordinated search effort followed, involving volunteers from Hatzolah.<\/p>\n<p>Maggie Castellanos identified Litvin in Huntington Park on April 17 after noticing an elderly woman who appeared disoriented on a home security camera. She intervened, stayed with Litvin, and contacted emergency services. Litvin was later taken to a hospital and reunited with her family after her identity was confirmed, according to Hatzolah.<\/p>\n<p>The Silver Alert program was established by the California Highway Patrol to issue and coordinate alerts involving the unexplained or suspicious disappearances of elderly, developmentally disabled or cognitively impaired individuals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A $25,000 reward will be presented Tuesday by the fully volunteer emergency medical response organization Hatzolah to a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31138,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[35773,15294,11019,127250,48,52,51,105918,47,50,49,1770,102797,4925,1557],"class_list":["post-300934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-35773","tag-15294","tag-78-year-old","tag-helping","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-locate","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-missing","tag-receive","tag-reward","tag-woman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300934","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=300934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}