{"id":672978,"date":"2026-05-29T22:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T22:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/672978\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T22:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T22:30:08","slug":"mountain-lion-sighting-reported-in-santa-monica-residents-told-to-stay-indoors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/672978\/","title":{"rendered":"Mountain lion sighting reported in Santa Monica; residents told to stay indoors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A reported sighting of a mountain lion has shut down a few local roads in Santa Monica as authorities look for the dangerous cat and warn residents to stay indoors.<\/p>\n<p>The Santa Monica Police Department responded to the sighting near a residential area near 14th and Montana streets, according to a <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SantaMonicaPD\/status\/2060429650145513525?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">police department social media post<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Officials encouraged community members to stay indoors, keep their pets inside and avoid approaching and photographing the animal. <\/p>\n<p>There were no injuries reported as of Friday afternoon, police said. Wildlife personnel also responded to the incident. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnyone who sees the animal should call 9-1-1 immediately and provide their location from a safe place,\u201d according to the police post. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A reported sighting of a mountain lion has shut down a few local roads in Santa Monica as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":342462,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[14144,17864,170981,293569,293568,147469,30757,4281,293570,146292,9585,1583,14857,119317,41838,79,201],"class_list":["post-672978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-animal","tag-authority","tag-community-member","tag-dangerous-cat","tag-few-local-road","tag-friday-afternoon","tag-indoor","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-montana-street","tag-mountain-lion-sighting","tag-official","tag-police","tag-resident","tag-residential-area","tag-santa-monica","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672978","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=672978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}