{"id":282827,"date":"2026-04-23T23:35:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T23:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/282827\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T23:35:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T23:35:07","slug":"8-year-old-girl-escapes-kidnapping-runs-to-nearby-home-woman-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/282827\/","title":{"rendered":"8-year-old girl escapes kidnapping, runs to nearby home; woman arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 A woman was arrested after a kidnapping attempt on Wednesday afternoon in Fresno.<\/p>\n<p>The Fresno Police Department says they were called out to a home on Andrews Avenue, near Shields and West Avenues at 4:38 p.m. for reports of a woman trying to take a child.<\/p>\n<p>When officers arrived, they found a woman identified as Tyiesha Davis, who witnesses say tried to kidnap an 8-year-old girl.<\/p>\n<p>Investigations showed that Davis grabbed the little girl by her hair and tried to pull her into a vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>The little girl fought back and was able to get away from Davis.<\/p>\n<p>She said the woman told her she was stolen at birth and that she was her real mom.<\/p>\n<p>She also said the woman knew her name.<\/p>\n<p>[RELATED] M<a href=\"https:\/\/kmph.com\/news\/local\/man-arrested-in-child-sexual-abuse-material-investigation-in-madera-county-csam-madera-county-sheriffs-office\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">an arrested in child porn investigation in Madera County<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The young girl then ran to a nearby home and pounded on the door until somebody answered.<\/p>\n<p>The parents of the child showed up and confirmed that they did not know Davis, and she had no relation to them.<\/p>\n<p>Davis was booked at the Fresno County Jail for kidnapping, false imprisonment and endangering a child.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>Fresno Police say this attempted kidnapping is completely unrelated to <a href=\"https:\/\/kmph.com\/news\/local\/children-inside-stolen-car-reunited-with-mother-after-chase-in-fresno-police-department-man-in-custody\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">another kidnapping attempt earlier in the same day.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 A woman was arrested after a kidnapping attempt on Wednesday afternoon in Fresno. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282828,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":{"0":"post-282827","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fresno","8":"tag-fresno","9":"tag-fresno-headlines","10":"tag-fresno-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282827","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=282827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}