{"id":496783,"date":"2026-10-15T09:02:38","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T09:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/496783\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T09:02:38","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T09:02:38","slug":"man-accused-of-assault-attempted-kidnapping-of-2-children-near-oaklands-lake-merritt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/496783\/","title":{"rendered":"Man accused of assault, attempted kidnapping of 2 children near Oakland&#8217;s Lake Merritt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man has been arrested in connection with the assault and attempted kidnapping of children in two separate incidents near Lake Merritt in Oakland on Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p>According to Oakland police, both incidents took place shortly before 9 a.m. near Grand Avenue and Harrison Street. According to the preliminary investigation, a child in a stroller was attacked by a suspect who later left on foot.<\/p>\n<p>Soon after, police said the same person attempted to remove another child from a stroller before leaving on foot. Neither child needed medical attention.<\/p>\n<p>Officers arrested a suspect, an adult male, in connection with both incidents. The suspect&#8217;s name has not been released.<\/p>\n<p>Additional details about the incidents were not immediately available.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with additional information about the case is asked to contact the Oakland Police Department&#8217;s Felony Assault Unit at 510-238-3426 or to email <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/sanfrancisco\/news\/oakland-lake-merritt-assault-attempted-kidnapping-children-in-strollers\/mailto:cidvideos@oaklandca.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">cidvideos@oaklandca.gov<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been arrested in connection with the assault and attempted kidnapping of children in two separate&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":496784,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[2598,25755,143,145,144],"class_list":["post-496783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-assault","tag-kidnapping","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496783","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=496783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/496784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}