{"id":195286,"date":"2026-02-26T20:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T20:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/195286\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T20:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T20:04:09","slug":"authorities-seek-help-finding-missing-woman-in-downtown-fresno","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/195286\/","title":{"rendered":"Authorities seek help finding missing woman in downtown Fresno"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Fresno County Sheriff\u2019s Office is asking for the public\u2019s help locating a 46-year-old woman who has been missing more than two weeks.<\/p>\n

Valerie Grace Ray was last seen Feb. 9 in the area of Fresno and M streets in downtown Fresno, according to a post of the Sheriff\u2019s Office social media Tuesday<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ray is described as 5-foot-8 with blonde hair and brown eyes.<\/p>\n

It is not clear exactly when she was reported missing or why she was downtown prior to her last being seen. There was no indication that authorities are investigating the disappearance as any possible crime, and a message to the Sheriff\u2019s Office was no immediately returned.<\/p>\n

Anyone with information on Ray\u2019s potential location can contact the Sheriff\u2019s Office at 559-600-3111<\/a> or 559-600-8135.<\/a><\/p>\n

Related Stories from Fresno Bee<\/p>\n

Joshua Tehee<\/a><\/p>\n

The Fresno Bee<\/p>\n

Joshua Tehee covers breaking news for The Fresno Bee, writing on a wide range of topics from police, politics and weather, to arts and entertainment in the Central Valley.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Fresno County Sheriff\u2019s Office is asking for the public\u2019s help locating a 46-year-old woman who has been…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195287,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,12090,69066,114,91195,113,5845,91194],"class_list":{"0":"post-195286","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fresno","8":"tag-fresno","9":"tag-fresno-county-sheriff","10":"tag-fresno-downtown","11":"tag-fresno-headlines","12":"tag-fresno-m-street","13":"tag-fresno-news","14":"tag-missing-person","15":"tag-valerie-ray"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195286","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=195286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}