{"id":197463,"date":"2026-02-28T02:39:23","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T02:39:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/197463\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T02:39:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T02:39:23","slug":"woman-found-safe-after-reported-missing-from-downtown-fresno-for-two-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/197463\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman found safe after reported missing from downtown Fresno for two weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A woman who had been missing from downtown Fresno more than two weeks has been found and is safe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">That\u2019s according to the Fresno County Sheriff\u2019s Office, posting an update <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid02mquZE5d1F3E7zAyji15rb345UWjJxJvLFeFvo7XXTPazT5EbVD2jHedgz1mrzqB7l&amp;id=100067885074928&amp;mibextid=wwXIfr&amp;_rdr\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Thursday night,;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Thursday night,<\/a> days after asking the public for help in finding the 46-year-old.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Valerie Ray hadn\u2019t been in communication with her family since at least Feb. 9, when she was last seen in the area of Fresno and M streets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">While the Sheriff\u2019s Office was looking for Ray, deputies said there wasn\u2019t anything suspicious in the case. The woman was dealing with personal issues and may have gone off grid, something that had happened before.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It is not clear where or how Ray was located.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Valerie Ray has been located, deputies said in an update Thursday, Feb. 26, 2026.\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/c70a68d88890a1d9c4da4b4700250542.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Valerie Ray has been located, deputies said in an update Thursday, Feb. 26, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>(Fresno County Sheriff\u2019s Office)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman who had been missing from downtown Fresno more than two weeks has been found and is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":197464,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,14364,114,113],"class_list":{"0":"post-197463","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-sheriffs-office","10":"tag-fresno-headlines","11":"tag-fresno-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197463","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=197463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}