{"id":419522,"date":"2026-07-31T14:31:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T14:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/419522\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T14:31:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T14:31:09","slug":"car-stolen-and-crashed-in-east-hollywood-while-woman-was-asleep-inside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/419522\/","title":{"rendered":"Car stolen and crashed in East Hollywood while woman was asleep inside"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A woman sleeping in the backseat of a car in East Hollywood got a shocking wakeup call early Friday morning, after two suspects crashed the car after stealing it. <\/p>\n<p>Police arrested two suspects after they crashed the black sedan into a wall at N. Normandie and W. Maplewood avenues in East Hollywood around 2 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>Video taken at the accident scene showed severe front-end damage to the car, with airbags deployed.<\/p>\n<p>The car&#8217;s owner said he had gotten out and left his girlfriend asleep in the backseat, with the keys still in the ignition. <\/p>\n<p>Officers said they believe the carjacking suspects were not aware that there was a woman sleeping in the back when they stole the car. <\/p>\n<p>They quickly lost control and crashed. The driver fled on foot but was apprehended by officers. The suspect passenger suffered a foot injury from the crash and was taken to the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>The sleeping woman was awakened and uninjured.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/east-hollywood-crashed-car.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"east-hollywood-crashed-car.jpg \" height=\"341\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  The stolen black sedan crashed into a wall, and both suspects were taken into custody.<\/p>\n<p>                CBS LA<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman sleeping in the backseat of a car in East Hollywood got a shocking wakeup call early&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":419523,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-419522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419522","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=419522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}