{"id":196701,"date":"2026-02-27T17:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T17:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/196701\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T17:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T17:00:09","slug":"missing-fresno-woman-valarie-ray-found-and-shes-safe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/196701\/","title":{"rendered":"Missing Fresno Woman Valarie Ray Found and She&#8217;s Safe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Fresno County Sheriff\u2019s Office reported a happy ending late Thursday night in the case of Valarie Grace Ray, who hadn\u2019t been previously seen since Feb. 9 in downtown Fresno.<\/p>\n<p>Sheriff\u2019s spokesman Tony Botti said that Ray, 46, was found safe on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The sheriff\u2019s office had <a href=\"https:\/\/gvwire.com\/2026\/02\/24\/fresno-county-authorities-seek-help-locating-missing-woman\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">issued an alert on Tuesday<\/a> asking the public\u2019s help in finding Ray.<\/p>\n<p><a data-no-instant=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/gvwire.com\/contact\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"a2t-link\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"GVWire-Ad-Get-our-mobile-app-1280\u00d790-1\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/GVWire-Ad-Get-our-mobile-app-1280x90-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\"   width=\"1280\" height=\"90\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Detective Javier Puente was the lead deputy on the case.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Fresno County Sheriff\u2019s Office reported a happy ending late Thursday night in the case of Valarie Grace&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192310,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-196701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196701","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=196701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}