{"id":348302,"date":"2026-06-05T17:59:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T17:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/348302\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T17:59:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T17:59:09","slug":"man-behaving-suspiciously-with-kids-near-oc-elementary-school-arrested-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/348302\/","title":{"rendered":"Man &#8216;Behaving Suspiciously&#8217; With Kids Near OC Elementary School Arrested, Police Say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HUNTINGTON BEACH, CA \u2014 A man was arrested after he was accused of &#8220;suspicious behavior&#8221; involving children near Newland Elementary School in Huntington Beach, police said. <\/p>\n<p>The incident happened on Tuesday at around 7:30 p.m., when officers responded to reports of the man driving through a neighborhood near the school and engaging with children, according to the Huntington Beach Police Department. <\/p>\n<p>Based on information received from the community and witness interviews, the suspect was arrested, police said. <\/p>\n<p>He was identified as Irvine resident Ivan Mendoza, 21, and was arrested for felony child endangerment. <\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information about Mendoza was urged to contact 714-536-5961.<\/p>\n<p>To remain anonymous, residents can contact OC Crime Stoppers at 855-TIP-OCCS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HUNTINGTON BEACH, CA \u2014 A man was arrested after he was accused of &#8220;suspicious behavior&#8221; involving children near&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":348303,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":["post-348302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348302","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=348302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}