{"id":467233,"date":"2026-09-17T22:18:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T22:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/467233\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T22:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T22:18:09","slug":"yolo-county-parents-arrested-after-newborn-found-in-unsafe-conditions-beneath-i-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/467233\/","title":{"rendered":"Yolo County parents arrested after newborn found in unsafe conditions beneath I-5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A seven-day-old baby was placed in protective custody after Yolo County sheriff&#8217;s deputies say they found the child living in unsafe conditions beneath an Interstate 5 overpass.<\/p>\n<p>Deputies responded Sept. 9 to an area near County Road 19A north of Woodland after receiving a tip about a family living beneath the freeway, according to the Yolo County Sheriff&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities said they found 48-year-old Fernando Esparza, 29-year-old Melissa Rivera and their newborn inside a makeshift tent.<\/p>\n<p>The baby was evaluated by paramedics and taken to Woodland Memorial Hospital before being transferred to a neonatal intensive care unit in Sacramento County for further evaluation. Deputies did not provide details about the child&#8217;s condition.<\/p>\n<p>Detectives said they found suspected methamphetamine pipes, accumulated trash, rotten food and unsanitary sleeping conditions inside and around the tent.<\/p>\n<p>Child Welfare Services was called to the scene, and the baby was ultimately placed into protective custody.<\/p>\n<p>Esparza and Rivera were arrested on suspicion of child endangerment and booked into the Yolo County Jail.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Officials have not released additional information about the child&#8217;s medical condition or where the baby was placed after being taken into protective custody.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A seven-day-old baby was placed in protective custody after Yolo County sheriff&#8217;s deputies say they found the child&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":467234,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122,7623,14771],"class_list":["post-467233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news","tag-woodland-news","tag-yolo-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467233","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=467233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}