{"id":371742,"date":"2026-06-23T18:03:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T18:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/371742\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T18:03:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T18:03:12","slug":"family-searching-for-missing-girl-last-seen-on-may-20-at-mira-monte-high-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/371742\/","title":{"rendered":"Family searching for missing girl, last seen on May 20 at Mira Monte High School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Family is searching for a missing girl, who was last seen at Mira Monte High School.<\/p>\n<p>According to her family, Valerie Zapata was last seen on May 20, 2026, at around 7:45 a.m. at Mira Monte High School on South Fairfax Road.<\/p>\n<p>Valerie is described as 5\u20193\u201d tall, 165 pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes.<\/p>\n<p>Family provided a photo of what she was wearing the day she went missing. She was wearing a burgundy shirt with sweats.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"{p}According to her family, Valerie Zapata was last seen on May 20, 2026, at around 7:45 a.m. at Mira Monte High School on South Fairfax Road. PHOTO: Family of Zapata {\/p}\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/7c4735f1-d5a3-4481-8baf-ea361ff62c06-UntitledAugust202025at10.44.4126.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>According to her family, Valerie Zapata was last seen on May 20, 2026, at around 7:45 a.m. at Mira Monte High School on South Fairfax Road. PHOTO: Family of Zapata <\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information on her whereabouts can call the Bakersfield Police Department at (661) 327- 7111.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Family is searching for a missing girl, who was last seen at Mira Monte&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":371743,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-371742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371742","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=371742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}