{"id":476469,"date":"2026-09-26T13:32:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T13:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/476469\/"},"modified":"2026-09-26T13:32:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T13:32:10","slug":"sdso-looking-for-sexually-violent-predator-who-disappeared-in-san-diego-nbc-7-san-diego","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/476469\/","title":{"rendered":"SDSO looking for sexually violent predator who disappeared in San Diego \u2013 NBC 7 San Diego"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsandiego.com\/tag\/san-diego-sheriffs-department\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego Sheriff\u2019s Department<\/a> 7 hours ago\t\t<\/p>\n<p>San Diego County law enforcement are looking for a violent sex offender who escaped supervision in Rancho Bernardo early Friday morning. Investigators say 69-year-old Merle Wakefield cut off his ankle monitor and left his job. NBC 7\u2019s Dave Summers has the story.\n<\/p>\n<p>\tUS &amp; World Videos\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Diego Sheriff\u2019s Department 7 hours ago San Diego County law enforcement are looking for a violent sex&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":476470,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[74,34420,76,75],"class_list":["post-476469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-county-sheriff","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476469","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=476469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}