{"id":138162,"date":"2026-01-17T22:05:47","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T22:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/138162\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T22:05:47","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T22:05:47","slug":"man-arrested-for-sexual-assault-of-teen-fresno-police-seek-more-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/138162\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Arrested for Sexual Assault of Teen; Fresno Police Seek More Victims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) \u2014\u00a0The Fresno Police Department is asking for help identifying more victims after a man was arrested for sexual assault incidents with a teen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">In November 2025, the suspect, 30-year-old Santiago Flores, drove up to a teen girl when she was walking to school near Cedar Avenue and Cesar Chavez Boulevard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">He asked the teen to get into his car, but the teen declined and continued toward campus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Later, investigators learned that in September 2025, Flores drove up next to another teenage girl as she was heading to school near Cedar and Church Avenues, asking her to get into his car for sex.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The girl entered his vehicle and they drove off to a nearby parking lot. That\u2019s where police say he assaulted her.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Flores then drove the victim to school.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The victim identified Flores. He was arrested on January 13 in Mendota.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Fresno Police say that even though they have arrested Flores, they are asking the community to locate any more victims who might have encountered him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">If anyone has additional information regarding this investigation or about additional victims, they are encouraged to contact the Fresno Police Department.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) \u2014\u00a0The Fresno Police Department is asking for help identifying more victims after a man was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":138163,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":{"0":"post-138162","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fresno","8":"tag-fresno","9":"tag-fresno-headlines","10":"tag-fresno-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}