{"id":525309,"date":"2026-03-15T16:49:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T16:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/525309\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T16:49:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T16:49:10","slug":"mountain-lion-spotted-in-oxnard-tree-according-to-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/525309\/","title":{"rendered":"Mountain lion spotted in Oxnard tree, according to police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A mountain lion was spotted in a tree in Oxnard on Friday night, but has since left the area, according to police.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oxnard.gov\/pd-news\/community-safety-notice-mountain-lion-sighting?fbclid=IwY2xjawQi3EVleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEewSsONnq0TgDcvaEdEl0XxuoDc4uVo9vApKa4GyNmXMLWKz-83VMb8OdFz9I_aem_JLill_gLitG8B5pQCH_x6w\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">news release<\/a> shared with the community at around 7:30 p.m., Oxnard Police Department officers warned the public to stay away from the 800 block of Ebony Drive after they received reports of a mountain lion sighting.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Police advised residents to stay alert and keep pets and children indoors until further notice.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>At around 4 a.m., officers provided an update and said that the mountain lion was no longer spotted in the tree where it was previously seen.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The animal&#8217;s current location is unknown,&#8221; the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/OxnardPD\/posts\/pfbid027eomwJmMkk9rLYqoD414L1f1tvpAWjQZrnSjBHgocpaassNGyi2YQ2BBHaEBhmhDl#?fai\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">updated release<\/a> said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Still, police urged residents to remain vigilant.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They asked anyone who may spot the big cat to call 911 immediately so officers could coordinate their response with wildlife officials.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A mountain lion was spotted in a tree in Oxnard on Friday night, but has since left the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":525310,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,201],"class_list":["post-525309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525309","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=525309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/525310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}