Detectives and officers from the Long Beach Police Department located and rescued a missing 14-year-old girl who may have been a human trafficking victim in Los Angeles, authorities said Saturday.<\/p>\n
The LBPD received a report about the missing girl Friday and began efforts to find her, according to a LBPD statement.<\/p>\n
They found the teen in Los Angeles within a few hours and brought her back to Long Beach, where the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services took over to facilitate her return home, police said. It was unclear what led police to believe she was being trafficked.<\/p>\n
\u201cHuman trafficking and the exploitation of children will never be tolerated in our community and the Long Beach Police Department will use all available resources to rescue the vulnerable victims of this reprehensible criminal activity,\u201d said Long Beach Police Chief Wally Hebeish. \u201cI\u2019m extremely proud of our detectives and police officers for working so hard to rescue this victim. I commend our personnel for their ongoing efforts to locate and arrest all those responsible for this unacceptable crime.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Detectives and officers from the Long Beach Police Department located and rescued a missing 14-year-old girl who may…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":179155,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[2630,174,4679,131,133,132,236,32996,7648,34221,2601],"class_list":{"0":"post-179154","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-long-beach","8":"tag-14-year-old","9":"tag-beach","10":"tag-human","11":"tag-long-beach","12":"tag-long-beach-headlines","13":"tag-long-beach-news","14":"tag-police","15":"tag-possible","16":"tag-rescue","17":"tag-trafficking","18":"tag-victim"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179154","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=179154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}