{"id":289531,"date":"2026-04-28T10:06:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T10:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/289531\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T10:06:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T10:06:18","slug":"california-woman-escapes-kidnapping-by-texting-911-from-gas-station-bathroom-deputies-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/289531\/","title":{"rendered":"California woman escapes kidnapping by texting 911 from gas station bathroom, deputies say"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A woman in Humboldt County was able to escape her kidnapper by hiding in a gas station bathroom, according to a <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/humboldtgov.org\/m\/newsflash\/home\/detail\/6208\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">news release<\/a> from the Humboldt County Sheriff\u2019s Office. <\/p>\n<p>The woman was taken from her home against her will around 3 a.m. on Thursday, but she was able to call for help from a gas station bathroom when the assailant stopped for fuel  in Blue Lake, about 15 minutes from where she\u2019d been kidnapped, deputies said. <\/p>\n<p>Just before 4 a.m., the Humboldt County Sheriff\u2019s Emergency Communications Center received a 911 call and multiple text messages from the woman, who said she had been kidnapped and was hiding in the gas station bathroom.<\/p>\n<p>Deputies were able to quickly respond to the location, where they detained 46-year-old Timothy Richard Long and then located the woman, the news release said. <\/p>\n<p>Long was arrested on suspicion of kidnapping, violation of a domestic violence court order, and violating probation, deputies said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman in Humboldt County was able to escape her kidnapper by hiding in a gas station bathroom,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289532,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2640,39241,123745,7,9,8,29997,167,3722,123744,3154,25755,1511,346,10132,2429,8836,21654],"class_list":["post-289531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-a-m","tag-assailant","tag-blue-lake","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-california-woman","tag-deputy","tag-fuel","tag-gas-station-bathroom","tag-humboldt-county","tag-kidnapping","tag-news-release","tag-office","tag-suspicion","tag-thursday","tag-violation","tag-will"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289531","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=289531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}