{"id":350395,"date":"2026-06-07T08:44:53","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T08:44:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/350395\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T08:44:53","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T08:44:53","slug":"missing-fresno-teen-girl-found-in-santa-cruz-co-hotel-with-grown-man-child-sex-arrest-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/350395\/","title":{"rendered":"Missing Fresno teen girl found in Santa Cruz Co hotel with grown man; child sex arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 A man has been arrested after officers say he was found in a Santa Cruz County hotel room with a missing teenage girl from Fresno, and detectives are now searching for more possible victims.<\/p>\n<p>The Watsonville Police Department says 24-year-old Darwin Linares was found on March 18 in a hotel on Airport Boulevard with a 15-year-old girl who was reported missing in Fresno.<\/p>\n<p>Linares was arrested for unlawful sexual intercourse with an underage girl.<\/p>\n<p>[RELATED] <a href=\"https:\/\/kmph.com\/news\/local\/second-body-found-in-same-canal-where-murder-victim-found-neilson-and-hughes-avenues-glenn-and-webster-avenues-police-firefighters-recovery\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Second body found in same canal where murder victim found<\/a><\/p>\n<p>After investigating, detectives found more communications with dozens of other underage girls in various states.<\/p>\n<p>Evidence shows that Linares used multiple social media platforms and applications to communicate with underage girls, often using different names and ages, for sexual purposes. <\/p>\n<p>Authorities are now searching for more possible victims.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>JOIN THE CONVERSATION (7)<\/p>\n<p>If you have any information, or if you may have been a victim of Linares, you can contact Detective Ambriz at 831-768-3358. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 A man has been arrested after officers say he was found in a Santa&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":345009,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-350395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350395","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=350395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}