{"id":654745,"date":"2026-05-20T16:45:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T16:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/654745\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T16:45:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T16:45:08","slug":"boy-escapes-alleged-kidnapping-after-breaking-window-nopd-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/654745\/","title":{"rendered":"Boy escapes alleged kidnapping after breaking window, NOPD says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New Orleans Police Department is investigating an alleged kidnapping in Algiers, where the victim escaped after being forced into a vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>NEW ORLEANS \u2014 The New Orleans Police Department is investigating an alleged kidnapping involving a boy that happened Tuesday evening in Algiers.<\/p>\n<p>According to police, the incident happened around 5:06 p.m. near Farragut Street and Lawrence Street.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators said the victim was walking home when two unknown white males allegedly placed a bag over the victim\u2019s head and forced the victim into a vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>The suspects drove the boy to an unknown location, where the victim managed to break a window and escape.<\/p>\n<p>After escaping, the boy then ran to safety and flagged down a police officer for help.<\/p>\n<p>No other information about the suspects or vehicle is available at this time.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>NOPD says the investigation remains active and ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New Orleans Police Department is investigating an alleged kidnapping in Algiers, where the victim escaped after being&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":654746,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-654745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654745","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=654745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/654746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}