{"id":417249,"date":"2026-07-29T23:43:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T23:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/417249\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T23:43:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T23:43:10","slug":"suspect-arrested-after-amber-alert-for-abducted-kern-county-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/417249\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspect arrested after Amber Alert for abducted Kern County children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Amber Alert was issued for three children who were allegedly abducted from Kern County, according to the California Highway Patrol.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>At around 4:15 p.m., the Ridgecrest Police Department said that all of the children, aged 4, 8 and 10,\u00a0were safely located and that the suspect had been taken into custody. No further details were provided.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/chpalerts\/status\/2082593685615804509?s=46\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">news release<\/a>\u00a0announcing the Amber Alert, CHP officers said that 29-year-old Julio Roman-Garcia allegedly took the children from Ridgecrest. They were last seen at around 11:30 a.m. at the intersection of E. Coso Avenue and E. Las Flores Avenue in a gray 2014 Honda Accord with the California license plate 9RUN898.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect is described as standing about 5-foot-11 and weighing 400 pounds. He has black hair and brown eyes and was last seen in a long-sleeve black shirt and black sweatpants.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Amber Alert was issued for Kern, Los Angeles, San Bernardino, Riverside, Orange, San Diego, Imperial and San Luis Obispo counties.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who believes they&#8217;ve seen the suspect, victims or vehicle involved is urged to contact CHP or call 911.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Amber Alert was issued for three children who were allegedly abducted from Kern County, according to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":367295,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8],"class_list":["post-417249","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\/417249","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=417249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}