{"id":218926,"date":"2026-03-14T01:09:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T01:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/218926\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T01:09:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T01:09:08","slug":"at-risk-teen-last-seen-in-oildale-with-another-missing-16-year-old-girl-kcso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/218926\/","title":{"rendered":"At-risk teen last seen in Oildale; with another missing 16-year-old girl: KCSO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Deputies are searching for 16-year-old Mackenzie Meadows, last seen near Airport and Olive drives on Thursday, March 12. She was known to be with <a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/news\/local\/kcso-asks-for-publics-help-locating-missing-16-year-old\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sara Current, 16, who also went missing last month<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Meadows was last seen at around 9:24 p.m., wearing a red hooded sweatshirt, black shorts, and black and white Nike shoes.<\/p>\n<p>She is described as 5&#8217;9&#8243; tall, 150 pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes.<\/p>\n<p>Meadows was said to be accompanied by Sara Current, 16, another girl who reportedly went missing on Feb. 5, 2026.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"MISSING: Mackenzie Meadows, 16, and Sara Current, 16. Photo: Kern County Sheriff's Office.\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/34a81ae7-80fc-447e-95ad-90f74c89c3bf-MMSC.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>MISSING: Mackenzie Meadows, 16, and Sara Current, 16. Photo: Kern County Sheriff&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p>Current is described as 5&#8217;1&#8243; tall, 150 pounds, with blue eyes and blue or black hair. Current was captured in pink pants in KCSO&#8217;s photo.<\/p>\n<p>KCSO said the girls were possibly headed to the east Bakersfield area.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information regarding Meadow&#8217;s or Current&#8217;s whereabouts is asked to call the Kern County Sheriff&#8217;s Office at (661) 861-3110 or the Secret Witness Line (661) 322-4040.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Deputies are searching for 16-year-old Mackenzie Meadows, last seen near Airport and Olive drives on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":218927,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-218926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218926","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=218926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}