{"id":780308,"date":"2026-05-07T19:33:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T19:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/780308\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T19:33:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T19:33:12","slug":"man-suspected-in-sexual-battery-against-10-year-old-girl-in-poway-arrested-san-diego-union-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/780308\/","title":{"rendered":"Man suspected in sexual battery against 10-year-old girl in Poway arrested \u2013 San Diego Union-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man suspected of molesting a 10-year-old girl in Poway last weekend was arrested Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The 36-year-old man was arrested in connection with the alleged sexual battery of the child near Midland Road north of Poway Road, according to the Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect allegedly assaulted the girl shortly after 6 p.m. Saturday, then fled on an electric scooter when a friend of hers screamed at him to stop, sheriff\u2019s Lt. Aloha Peters said.<\/p>\n<p>The man was booked into San Diego Central Jail on suspicion of performing a forcible lewd act on a person under age 14. He was being held without bail pending arraignment, scheduled for Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities did not say what led to his arrest. The Sheriff\u2019s Office released <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sandiegouniontribune.com\/2026\/05\/06\/surveillance-photos-released-of-suspect-in-poway-sexual-battery-against-girl\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">surveillance images<\/a> of a suspect on Tuesday asking for the public\u2019s help in identifying him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man suspected of molesting a 10-year-old girl in Poway last weekend was arrested Wednesday. The 36-year-old man&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":751806,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,276,5295,1370,728,50,8738,52406,3549,3550,7264,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-780308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-america","tag-ca","tag-california","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-north-county","tag-poway","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-county","tag-sandiego","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116534968536978116","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=780308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/751806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=780308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=780308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=780308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}