{"id":172113,"date":"2026-02-10T17:24:37","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T17:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/172113\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T17:24:37","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T17:24:37","slug":"shafter-police-search-for-2-missing-13-year-olds-last-seen-at-lerdo-highway-chevron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/172113\/","title":{"rendered":"Shafter police search for 2 missing 13-year-olds, last seen at Lerdo Highway Chevron"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The Shafter Police Department is asking for the community\u2019s help in finding two teenagers, who were last seen at the Chevron gas station on Lerdo Highway.<\/p>\n<p>Police said Ava Valdez Kast and Riley Ritchie, both 13 years old, were last seen on February 9th, at around 4:45 p.m. at the Chevron gas station located at 6000 E. Lerdo Highway in Shafter.<\/p>\n<p>Ava Valdez Kast is described as 5&#8217;1\u201d tall, about 130 pounds, with blue eyes, and burgundy shoulder-length hair. She was wearing a black and gray checkered flannel, a t-shirt and dark-colored pants.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ava Valdez Kast is described as 5'1\u201d tall, about 130 pounds, with blue eyes, and burgundy shoulder-length hair. PHOTO: SPD\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/20facbdf-542c-4669-b036-d0d19a6f3178-Untitled80.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Ava Valdez Kast is described as 5&#8217;1\u201d tall, about 130 pounds, with blue eyes, and burgundy shoulder-length hair. PHOTO: SPD<\/p>\n<p>Riley Ritchie is described as 5&#8217;6\u201d tall, about 140 pounds, with blue eyes, and red\/blonde hair. He was wearing a white t-shirt and dark-colored pants.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Riley Ritchie is described as 5'6\u201d tall, about 140 pounds, with blue eyes, and red\/blonde hair. PHOTO: SPD\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/672f6fa8-c28e-4ad2-a30f-bc0636f395ff-Untitled81.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Riley Ritchie is described as 5&#8217;6\u201d tall, about 140 pounds, with blue eyes, and red\/blonde hair. PHOTO: SPD<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information on their whereabouts is asked to call the Shafter Police Department at 661-746-8500.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The Shafter Police Department is asking for the community\u2019s help in finding two teenagers,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":172114,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":{"0":"post-172113","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bakersfield","8":"tag-bakersfield","9":"tag-bakersfield-headlines","10":"tag-bakersfield-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172113","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=172113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}