{"id":361037,"date":"2026-06-15T04:42:25","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T04:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/361037\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T04:42:25","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T04:42:25","slug":"missing-hiker-never-found-as-authorities-end-search-along-lake-poway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/361037\/","title":{"rendered":"Missing hiker never found as authorities end search along Lake Poway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Investigators from the San Diego County Sheriff\u2019s Office Major Crimes Division and volunteers of the sheriff\u2019s Search and Rescue team ended the search this weekend for a missing hiker in the vicinity of Lake Poway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe search was completed yesterday (Saturday) about 4:30 p.m.,\u201d sheriff\u2019s Lt. Juan Marquez told City News Service on Sunday. \u201cThere was nothing of note.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The unidentified hiker \u201cis believed to have gone missing on the trail and never returned home or contacted family,\u201d Marquez said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The gender and age of the missing hiker were not provided.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No further details were released regarding the circumstances surrounding the missing person, why the Major Crimes Division was involved in the search, or when the person went missing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cMajor Crimes Division takes missing persons cases usually when someone has been missing for over 30 days,\u201d Marquez said in an email to CNS on Saturday. \u201cWe also handle cases suspicious in nature or when asked by the affected command to assist in locating the individual. There are a few other reasons we take on a case.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Search operations were conducted Saturday in and around the trails of Lake Poway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Investigators from the San Diego County Sheriff\u2019s Office Major Crimes Division and volunteers of the sheriff\u2019s Search and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":361038,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[146844,74,12027,76,75],"class_list":["post-361037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-lake-poway","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-county-sheriffs-office","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361037","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=361037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/361038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}