{"id":153876,"date":"2025-09-13T12:47:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T12:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/153876\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T12:47:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T12:47:08","slug":"santa-cruz-county-residents-warned-of-mountain-lion-spotted-near-rio-rico-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/153876\/","title":{"rendered":"Santa Cruz County residents warned of mountain lion spotted near Rio Rico | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RIO RICO, Ariz. (KVOA) &#8211; The Santa Cruz County Sheriff&#8217;s Office is warning residents after a mountain lion was spotted around the area.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to officials, the mountain lion was seen near Pendleton Drive and Alma Court.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Parents were advised to use caution when dropping off students at bus stops in the area.<\/p>\n<p>If anyone spots the mountain lion, authorities urge to call the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azgfd.com\/about-arizona-game-fish\/contact-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Arizona Game and Fish Department<\/a> at 602 942-3000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RIO RICO, Ariz. (KVOA) &#8211; The Santa Cruz County Sheriff&#8217;s Office is warning residents after a mountain lion&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":153877,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[1017,3729,3,79,452,201],"class_list":{"0":"post-153876","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-arizona","9":"tag-local","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-science","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}