{"id":406716,"date":"2026-07-21T16:37:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T16:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/406716\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T16:37:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T16:37:09","slug":"police-seek-help-finding-missing-teen-last-seen-in-northwest-bakersfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/406716\/","title":{"rendered":"Police seek help finding missing teen last seen in northwest Bakersfield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The Bakersfield Police Department is asking for the community\u2019s help in finding a missing 17-year-old boy.<\/p>\n<p>Police said on July 21, 2026, at 6:45 p.m., Lucas Joseph Pope was last seen in the 10000 block of Mohican Drive in northwest Bakersfield.<\/p>\n<p>Lucas is described as Hispanic, 5\u20199\u201d tall, 148 pounds, with brown hair, and brown eyes.<\/p>\n<p>He was wearing a black Quicksilver shirt, black sweatpants, brown slip-on shoes, with a black backpack.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Police said on July 21, 2026, at 6:45 p.m., Lucas Joseph Pope was last seen in the 10000 block of Mohican Drive in northwest Bakersfield. PHOTO: BPD\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"365\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/ca2e2e8d-0b5f-418a-bea9-ab6033a48a53-UntitledAugust202025at10.44.4154.png\" width=\"648\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Police said on July 21, 2026, at 6:45 p.m., Lucas Joseph Pope was last seen in the 10000 block of Mohican Drive in northwest Bakersfield. PHOTO: BPD<\/p>\n<p>Police said he is considered at risk due to being a first-time runaway.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information regarding his whereabouts is asked to call the Bakersfield Police Department at (661) 327-7111.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The Bakersfield Police Department is asking for the community\u2019s help in finding a missing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":406717,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-406716","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\/406716","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=406716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}