{"id":219200,"date":"2026-03-14T04:53:35","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T04:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/219200\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T04:53:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T04:53:35","slug":"woman-escapes-attempted-kidnapping-after-meeting-man-on-social-media-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/219200\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman escapes attempted kidnapping after meeting man on social media, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KFSN logo\" class=\"awXxV NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl CfkUa EknAv NwgWd \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/origin-kfsn.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Saturday, March 14, 2026 4:33AM<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAJCAQAAACRI2S5AAAAEElEQVR42mNkIAAYRxWAAQAG9gAKqv6+AwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Woman escapes attempted kidnapping after meeting man on social media, police say\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; Authorities are searching for the man involved in the attempted kidnapping of a woman in southeast Fresno.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Police say the victim agreed to meet the man on social media Thursday just before 10 p.m. in the area of Willow and Cesar Chavez.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The victim reportedly got into the suspect&#8217;s car and began talking when the man pulled out a knife and threatened her.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Officers say the two got into a struggle before the suspect restrained the woman and drove off, but the victim managed to escape by jumping out of the moving car near Cedar and Tulare.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The woman suffered minor injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Police have not yet identified the suspect.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KFSN-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Saturday, March 14, 2026 4:33AM FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; Authorities are searching for the man involved in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219201,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[100382,112,114,113,4052,294,100381],"class_list":["post-219200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-100382","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-police-say","tag-timely","tag-woman-escapes-attempted-kidnapping-after-meeting-man-on-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219200","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=219200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}