{"id":259380,"date":"2026-08-05T03:20:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T03:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/259380\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T03:20:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T03:20:11","slug":"suspect-sought-for-home-invasion-and-sex-assault-in-the-kensington-section-of-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/259380\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspect sought for home invasion and sex assault in the Kensington section of Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) &#8212; Philadelphia police are looking for the man accused in a home invasion and sex assault.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Officers released an image of the suspect, 26-year-old Lee Johnson, on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Lee Johnson\" class=\"hsDdd NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl vBqtr KrDt itslR zFTjo hakZw HlUVI \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/19625733_080426-wpvi-lee-johnson-img.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">It happened around 5:30 a.m. on June 4 in the 2200 block of East Somerset Street in the Kensington section of the city.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">According to police, the adult victim reported that she awoke to find an unknown male suspect inside her residence who sexually assaulted her. The victim fought back, causing the suspect to flee through the rear of the property.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">In addition to the assault, several personal belongings were reported stolen from the residence before the suspect fled, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Johnson faces charges of Aggravated Indecent Assault, Burglary, Unlawful Restraint, and related offenses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">He has a last known address on the 6300 block of Horrocks Street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Johnson was most recently seen near the 6100 block of Algon Avenue, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Action News has learned police are investigating whether Johnson is involved in other sexual assaults.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Anyone with information regarding his whereabouts is urged to contact the Special Victims Unit at 215-685-3251 or dial 911.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 WPVI-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) &#8212; Philadelphia police are looking for the man accused in a home invasion and sex assault.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259381,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[110102,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-259380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-110102","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}