{"id":308453,"date":"2026-10-17T03:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T03:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/308453\/"},"modified":"2026-10-17T03:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T03:12:09","slug":"police-offer-10000-reward-for-information-on-child-luring-attempt-in-shillington-southern-berks-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/308453\/","title":{"rendered":"Police offer $10,000 reward for information on child-luring attempt in Shillington | Southern Berks County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SHILLINGTON, Pa. \u2014 On Caitlyn Olsavsky\u2019s phone is the warning Governor Mifflin sent to families after she told the district what happened to her daughter Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think within two hours of me reaching out to them,\u201d Olsavsky said.<\/p>\n<p>Olsavsky says her daughter was walking home from an after-school activity when she noticed a man following her in a white SUV.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe started noticing that he was still following her,\u201d Olsavsky said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe was kind of trying to zigzag down some streets to try to lose him and noticed that he was turning up the hill, turning around, trying to block her and cut her off,\u201d she explained.<\/p>\n<p>Olsavsky says her daughter called her father as she reached the alley behind their home. She says the driver motioned for the girl to come closer and offered her money.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want this man to know that there are eyes looking for him everywhere and that he made my daughter feel unsafe,\u201d Olsavsky said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow I want him to feel unsafe that we are looking for him,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>Police are asking people along Reading Avenue, State Street, Pennsylvania Avenue and North Wyomissing Avenue to check footage recorded Wednesday, October 14, between 5:40 and 6:05 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy husband has been going door to door asking for footage from Ring cameras,\u201d Olsavsky said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe put it on Facebook. I think I\u2019ve gotten almost 500 shares on that. I\u2019ve had women reach out to me and say, \u2018I will walk your daughter to school.\u2019 So the community has been amazing,\u201d she explained.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SHILLINGTON, Pa. \u2014 On Caitlyn Olsavsky\u2019s phone is the warning Governor Mifflin sent to families after she told&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308454,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[214,128,130,129,8491],"class_list":["post-308453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-southern-berks-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308453","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=308453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}