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LOS ANGELES – Authorities are searching for a man who allegedly followed a woman from a gym and sexually assaulted her in Valley Village.\u00a0<\/p>\n
What we know:<\/p>\n
According to the Los Angeles Police Department,<\/a> the suspect approached the woman from behind, forcefully removed her pants and underwear, then stuck his finger inside her anus without her consent.\u00a0<\/p>\n Investigators described the suspect as a 6-foot-tall man with a large build, bushy black hair, and brown eyes. He was last seen wearing a tan long-sleeve shirt, blue jeans, and brown or black boots.\u00a0<\/p>\n What we don’t know:<\/p>\n Authorities have not yet established the identity of the suspect.\u00a0<\/p>\n It’s unclear whether the suspect is connected to any other active investigations or similar incidents in the area.<\/p>\n What you can do:<\/p>\n Anyone with information regarding this crime is urged to call Detective Stanziale with the North Hollywood Sex Detectives at 818-754-8458.<\/p>\n You can also call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477), available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.<\/p>\n Those wishing to send a text tip can text CRIMES (274637) starting the message with the letters LAPD.<\/p>\n Anonymous tips can be submitted online at lapdonline.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Source: This report is based on information provided by the Los Angeles Police Department’s North Hollywood Division.<\/p>\n Crime and Public Safety<\/a>North Hollywood<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article Photo courtesy LAPD North Hollywood Division LOS ANGELES – Authorities are searching for a man who allegedly…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":418923,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[1184,2042,48,52,6086,51,47,137,50,49,100,7495,1181],"class_list":["post-418922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-ca","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-los-angeles-county","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-county","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-news","tag-north-hollywood","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418922","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=418922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}