{"id":473822,"date":"2026-09-24T04:16:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T04:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/473822\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T04:16:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T04:16:15","slug":"man-arrested-after-wcso-deputies-recover-missing-california-juvenile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/473822\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested after WCSO deputies recover missing California juvenile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">RENO, Nev. (KOLO) &#8211; A man has been arrested after police say he was transporting a missing California girl to Utah.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">A deputy with the Washoe County Sheriff\u2019s Office conducted a traffic stop on a car on eastbound I80 near Mogul on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Police say that, during the stop, the driver, 20-year-old Christian Tellez and a 13-year-old girl were contacted by deputies who determined the girl had been entered as a missing person out of California.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Police say Tellez had transported the juvenile from California into Nevada and was traveling towards Utah.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Tellez was arrested on charges of felony first degree kidnapping of a minor, driving with a revoked driver\u2019s license and not having proof of insurance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cWhat began as a traffic stop quickly developed into a significantly more serious investigation,\u201d said Sheriff Darin Balaam. \u201cOur deputies recognized the circumstances they were dealing with and took the necessary steps to get this 13-year-old girl to safety. I am grateful for their diligence and, most importantly, that this young girl was safely recovered before she was taken any farther from home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KOLO. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RENO, Nev. (KOLO) &#8211; A man has been arrested after police say he was transporting a missing California&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":473823,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,723,35905,1332,186330],"class_list":["post-473822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-crime","tag-local-crime","tag-washoe-county-sheriffs-office","tag-wcso"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473822","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=473822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}