{"id":827731,"date":"2026-08-27T16:10:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T16:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/827731\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T16:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T16:10:10","slug":"cougar-spotted-in-gresham-late-wednesday-night-police-confirm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/827731\/","title":{"rendered":"Cougar spotted in Gresham late Wednesday night, police confirm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GRESHAM, Ore. (KATU) \u2014 Police confirmed a cougar was spotted in Gresham late Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt 10:30 p.m., police responded to the 2000 block of Southeast Fleming Avenue after a citizen reported seeing a cougar in a tree near Springwater Trail High School,\u201d Gresham police said.<\/p>\n<p>When officers arrived, they spotted the large cat still in the tree.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Oregon State Police were notified,\u201d the agency said. \u201cAt this time, we ask the public to remain vigilant and call 911 if the animal is seen walking in the area.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This is the second cougar spotted in Gresham this week. On Tuesday morning, <a href=\"https:\/\/katu.com\/news\/local\/breaking-news-update-cougar-euthanized-by-wilkes-elementary-gresham-police-mmultnomah-county-oregon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">a cougar was euthanized near Wilkes Elementary School<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GRESHAM, Ore. (KATU) \u2014 Police confirmed a cougar was spotted in Gresham late Wednesday night. \u201cAt 10:30 p.m.,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":827732,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,201],"class_list":["post-827731","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\/827731","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=827731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/827732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=827731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=827731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=827731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}