{"id":495993,"date":"2026-10-14T16:54:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T16:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/495993\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T16:54:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T16:54:11","slug":"attempted-kidnapping-of-children-in-strollers-near-lake-merritt-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/495993\/","title":{"rendered":"Attempted kidnapping of children in strollers near Lake Merritt: police"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-35ac954e=\"\">OAKLAND, Calif. &#8211; Oakland police are investigating two separate attempted kidnappings and assaults that occurred Monday morning near Lake Merritt.<\/p>\n<p> Attempted kidnapping near Lake Merritt   <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KTVU\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-35ac954e=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-35ac954e=\"\">According to police, the attempts happened before 9 a.m. near Grand Avenue and Harrison Street, along the stretch of the lake adjacent to The Cathedral of Christ the Light and across the water from Children&#8217;s Fairyland.<\/p>\n<p data-v-35ac954e=\"\">The mother of one of the children posted<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@alexainspiration\/video\/7695941003554901261?_r=1&amp;_t=ZT-9AWZMghrxks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"> video of the incident to TikTok <\/a>under the username @alexa.inspiration to warn others to be careful.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-35ac954e=\"\">Investigators and the mother said a man attempted to snatch her child from a stroller before running away and attacking a second child who was also in a stroller.<\/p>\n<p data-v-35ac954e=\"\">Both children were accompanied by adults at the time of the attacks.<\/p>\n<p> Suspect ID, motive unknown <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KTVU\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-35ac954e=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-35ac954e=\"\">Police arrested the suspect, but authorities have not released any additional details regarding his identity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information for this story comes from Oakland police and a TikTok video by AlexaInspiration.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/tag\/us\/ca\/alameda-county\/oakland\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-35ac954e=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Oakland<\/a> <script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OAKLAND, Calif. &#8211; Oakland police are investigating two separate attempted kidnappings and assaults that occurred Monday morning near&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":495994,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[389,1184,100,143,145,144,1181],"class_list":["post-495993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-alameda-county","tag-ca","tag-news","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495993","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=495993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}