{"id":43570,"date":"2019-06-27T00:13:15","date_gmt":"2019-06-27T04:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=43570"},"modified":"2019-06-27T00:13:26","modified_gmt":"2019-06-27T04:13:26","slug":"sex-offender-tries-to-lure-kids-with-treats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2019\/06\/sex-offender-tries-to-lure-kids-with-treats\/","title":{"rendered":"Sex offender tries to lure kids with treats"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1140\" height=\"712\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/43746351280x960_60405B00-FJZNN.jpg?fit=1024%2C640&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-43571\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/43746351280x960_60405B00-FJZNN.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/43746351280x960_60405B00-FJZNN-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/43746351280x960_60405B00-FJZNN-768x480.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/43746351280x960_60405B00-FJZNN-1024x640.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1140px) 100vw, 1140px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A creepy encounter in Lehigh Acres has parents keeping their\nchildren close Wednesday night. A group of kids told Lee County Sheriff\u2019s\nOffice deputies a man tried to lure them into his home and they identified him\nfrom the Florida sex offender registry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jordan Swain said he is too old to be afraid of the boogie\nman nowadays, but hearing about a creepy encounter right on his street is\nunsettling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A Dollar Store is nearby his home where kids were on their\nway home from when a stranger confronted them. A LCSO arrest report said the\nman tried to lure the kids by offering them cookies and candy. Bernadette Hill\nsaid it happened hoses away from hers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201d It\u2019s definitely always a concern,\u201d Hill said, \u201cbecause kids\ntrust anybody.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The kids got scared and ran home to inform their parents.\nAfter the frightening situation, a parent started searching the FDLE website.\nEven scarier, the kids pointed out the stranger who came up under a sex\noffender list.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201d It doesn\u2019t surprise me that somebody that committed a\ncrime before would be likely to commit that crime again,\u201d Hill said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kids are on the alert and neighbors are watching.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A creepy encounter in Lehigh Acres has parents keeping their children close Wednesday night. A group of kids told Lee County Sheriff\u2019s Office deputies a man tried to lure them&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":43571,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43570"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}