{"id":362731,"date":"2026-06-16T13:12:22","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T13:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/362731\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T13:12:22","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T13:12:22","slug":"southern-california-man-accused-of-killing-girlfriend-fleeing-to-mexico-with-daughter-in-custody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/362731\/","title":{"rendered":"Southern California man accused of killing girlfriend, fleeing to Mexico with daughter in custody"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, May 28, officials initiated an AMBER Alert in Los Angeles, Riverside and San Diego counties for the 5-year-old girl.<\/p>\n<p>SAN DIEGO \u2014 The Southern California man accused of killing his girlfriend, then<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbs8.com\/article\/news\/local\/chp-vehicle-related-to-los-angeles-amber-alert-found-in-san-ysidro\/509-f1627259-2f72-485f-96be-57d3df24edc8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">\u00a0fleeing to Mexico<\/a> with his 5-year-old daughter in late May, was taken into custody over the weekend by Mexican officials.<\/p>\n<p>40-year-old Ruben Fregoso is charged with murder by the Los Angeles County District Attorney\u2019s Office, in connection with the death of a woman found inside a home. On Monday, May 25, officers responded to a radio call for a welfare check in the 2600 block of South Alsace Avenue. When officers arrived, they found a woman dead inside the home. Preliminary investigation found that she died from violence, and Ruben Fregoso, was identified as a person of interest.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He was missing with Daleyza Fregoso, his and the victim\u2019s daughter, at the time. Investigators learned that Ruben Fregoso made statements indicating he intended to flee the county.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, May 28, officials initiated an AMBER Alert in Los Angeles, Riverside and San Diego counties for the girl. According to the California Highway Patrol, she and the suspect were last seen at about 4 a.m. Sunday in the area of Alsace Avenue and Ferndale Street in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after the AMBER Alert was issued, CHP reported that the vehicle Fregoso was driving had been found. CHP said the white 2019 Land Rover was found in a parking garage at the San Ysidro Point of Entry, but the child and suspect were still missing.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly a month later, Ruben Fregoso is now in custody and is waiting to be extradited. Meanwhile, the United States Embassy officials in Mexico will return his daughter, Daleyza Fregoso, to her family in the coming days.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Tuesday, May 28, officials initiated an AMBER Alert in Los Angeles, Riverside and San Diego counties for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":362732,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8],"class_list":["post-362731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362731","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=362731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}