{"id":227145,"date":"2026-03-19T17:03:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T17:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/227145\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T17:03:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T17:03:10","slug":"man-found-with-missing-fresno-teen-the-pajaronian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/227145\/","title":{"rendered":"Man found with missing Fresno teen | The Pajaronian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/emergency.jpeg\" data-caption=\"file photo\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"438\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image lazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/emergency.jpeg\"  data- alt=\"\" title=\"emergency\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 696px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 696\/438;\"\/><\/a>file photo<\/p>\n<p>A Watsonville man was arrested Tuesday after he was found in a hotel with a 15-year-old girl who had been reported missing out of Fresno.<\/p>\n<p>Darwin Linares, 24, was booked into Santa Cruz County Jail on charges of unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor.<\/p>\n<p>He was not in custody on Thursday, jail records showed.<br \/>\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to Watsonville Police spokeswoman Erika Vazquez, the department received a report of the missing girl on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Three hours later, WPD detectives, the Santa Cruz County Anti-Crime Team and the Santa Cruz County Auto Theft Reduction and Enforcement Team, found the 15-year-old girl at a hotel on the 100 block of Airport Boulevard, where she was with Linares.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He was arrested at the scene.\u00a0<br \/>\u00a0 \u00a0<br \/>The teen is safe, and the investigation is ongoing, police said.<\/p>\n<p>It was not clear how Linares met the girl, or how she ot to Watsonville. Police on Thursday were still investigating that part of the case.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators to not believe there were any other victims, Vasquez said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"file photo A Watsonville man was arrested Tuesday after he was found in a hotel with a 15-year-old&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227146,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[237,103367,112,114,113,103368,1770,236,360,11790],"class_list":["post-227145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-arrest","tag-darwin","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-linares","tag-missing","tag-police","tag-teen","tag-watsonville"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227145","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=227145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}