{"id":395785,"date":"2026-07-12T17:47:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T17:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/395785\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T17:47:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T17:47:18","slug":"wanted-woman-arrested-missing-toddler-found-amid-investigation-in-merced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/395785\/","title":{"rendered":"Wanted woman arrested, missing toddler found amid investigation in Merced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">MERCED, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; A wanted woman was found along with a toddler Saturday in Merced.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The California Highway Patrol released a flier indicating that the suspect &#8212; 28-year-old Selena Bass-Vasquez, who was considered armed and dangerous &#8212; had been located.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Merced Police confirmed they took her into custody yesterday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Authorities also found a 1-year-old boy, who was the victim at the center of an at-risk\/missing person investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Prior to finding the pair, the CHP says the boy had last been seen around 1 p.m. in Merced Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Law enforcement had been searching for them, believing they were travelling in a dark silver Toyota CHR.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Action News is working to learn about the circumstances behind this investigation and why Bass-Vasquez was arrested.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Stay with ABC30 for the latest details on this developing story.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KFSN-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MERCED, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; A wanted woman was found along with a toddler Saturday in Merced. The California&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":395786,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[159115,112,114,113,159114,294,159113],"class_list":["post-395785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-159115","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-missing-toddler-found-amid-investigation-in-merced","tag-timely","tag-wanted-woman-arrested"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395785","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=395785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}