{"id":424071,"date":"2026-08-05T01:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T01:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/424071\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T01:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T01:58:09","slug":"man-goes-missing-while-camping-in-big-bear-found-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/424071\/","title":{"rendered":"Man goes missing while camping in Big Bear, found dead"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A man who was reported missing in Fawnskin on Monday morning was found deceased by the San Bernardino Sheriff\u2019s Department near his campsite after an extensive search.<\/p>\n<p>The man was identified as Brian Schofield, 47, of Riverside and was last seen by his fiancee Sunday night at around 11:30 p.m. when they went to bed at Yellow Post Campsite on Delamar Mountain Road, in Fawnskin, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities had put out an alert to the public early Monday morning after he had been reported missing. The Sheriff\u2019s Department added that a preliminary investigation into Schofield\u2019s death found no signs of foul play.<\/p>\n<p>The campsite where the man was found sits along Big Bear Lake and about seven miles outside of the city of Big Bear Lake.<\/p>\n<p>No further details were provided by authorities about the man\u2019s disappearance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man who was reported missing in Fawnskin on Monday morning was found deceased by the San Bernardino&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":424072,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[6577,48637,169166,169167,339,169170,6246,169168,29995,48,52,51,47,50,49,1555,1065,13214,2637,11466,169169],"class_list":["post-424071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-authority","tag-big-bear","tag-brian-schofield","tag-campsite","tag-death","tag-delamar-mountain-road","tag-department","tag-fawnskin","tag-foul-play","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-man","tag-monday-morning","tag-preliminary-investigation","tag-sheriff","tag-sign","tag-yellow-post-campsite"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424071","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=424071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}