{"id":34536,"date":"2024-11-10T01:36:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-10T07:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=34536"},"modified":"2024-11-10T03:18:04","modified_gmt":"2024-11-10T09:18:04","slug":"police-arrest-naked-man-living-in-crawl-space-of-southern-california-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=34536","title":{"rendered":"Police arrest naked man living in crawl space of Southern California home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Police arrested a naked man in the crawl space underneath the El Sereno, California, home<\/a> of a 93-year-old woman Friday morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Los Angeles police said they spent hours trying to get the man out before having to resort to tear gas, causing a huge commotion in the neighborhood and forcing the people living inside the home to have to find somewhere else to sleep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The unsettling incident took place after the woman and her family had reported hearing strange noises for weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt was usually late at night, and we just chucked it off to animals being under the house,\u201d said Ricardo Silva, the woman’s son-in-law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, on Thursday night, Silva said the noise got louder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe noises were kind of like knocking. It was kind of like, as my wife was walking, they were kind of knocking back from under the house so she says, ‘You know something\u2019s wrong,’\u201d Silva said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Family members at the home called the police immediately, and when officers arrived, they found a naked man in the crawl space.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The man was identified as 27-year-old Issac Betancourt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHe refused to leave. He wasn\u2019t scared of the dogs, and the first two attempts at gas didn\u2019t fish him out,\u201d Silva said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Betancourt didn\u2019t give up easily, according to police. After hours of refusing to come out, the Los Angeles Police Department said officers had to resort to tear gas to get him out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s unclear how long Betancourt had been underneath the home, but the family suspects he may have been staying for up to six months. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The crawl space itself is only about 2 feet high and stretches under the entire home with three entryways. The family believes he used one to come and go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a bizarre thing, but it\u2019s not probably uncommon, you know. In this day and age, people are looking for shelter,\u201d Silva said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The family says they\u2019ll be securing the crawl space to prevent this from happening ever again<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Betancourt was arrested for trespassing, the LAPD said. It was unclear whether he had an attorney who could comment on his behalf. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Police arrested a naked man in the crawl space underneath the El Sereno, California, home of a 93-year-old woman Friday morning. Los Angeles police said they spent hours trying to get the man out before having to resort to tear gas, causing a huge commotion in the neighborhood and forcing the people living inside the home to have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":34537,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1154],"tags":[2450,1237],"class_list":["post-34536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-arrest","tag-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34536"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34538,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34536\/revisions\/34538"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/34537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}