{"id":502759,"date":"2026-10-21T00:18:19","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T00:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/502759\/"},"modified":"2026-10-21T00:18:19","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T00:18:19","slug":"santa-ana-police-seek-man-accused-of-touching-9-year-old-girl-at-discount-store-nbc-los-angeles-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/502759\/","title":{"rendered":"Santa Ana police seek man accused of touching 9-year-old girl at discount store \u2013 NBC Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police are searching for a man suspected of inappropriately touching a 9-year-old girl while she was shopping with her family at a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbclosangeles.com\/?s=Santa+Ana+\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Santa Ana <\/a>discount store last month, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred Sept. 26 at DD\u2019s Discount Store, located at 2116 S. Bristol St., according to the Santa Ana Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the girl was in the toy section when an unidentified man walked down the same aisle and touched her buttocks multiple times with his palm.<\/p>\n<p>The girl ran away and cried for help, authorities said. The suspect fled the scene in an unknown vehicle before officers arrived. <\/p>\n<p>Police described the male suspect as approximately 50 to 60 years old. He was last seen wearing a black baseball cap, a short-sleeved white plaid button-up shirt and black shoes.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is urged to contact Santa Ana police Detective A. Vera at 714-245-8349 or Avera5@santa-ana.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are searching for a man suspected of inappropriately touching a 9-year-old girl while she was shopping with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":502760,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,338],"class_list":["post-502759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-santa-ana"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502759","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=502759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}