{"id":481378,"date":"2026-10-01T07:52:27","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T07:52:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/481378\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T07:52:27","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T07:52:27","slug":"gps-device-cellphone-found-as-search-continues-for-sexually-violent-predator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/481378\/","title":{"rendered":"GPS Device, Cellphone Found As Search Continues For Sexually Violent Predator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Merle Wakefield, 69, has been missing since early Friday, when his GPS monitoring device issued a tampering alert while he was working in the 16000 block of Via Esprillo in Rancho Bernardo, according to the San Diego County Sheriff&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p>Liberty Healthcare, which supervises Wakefield as part of California&#8217;s Conditional Release Program, responded to the workplace and found his GPS device and cellphone, but Wakefield was gone, authorities said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Merle Wakefield, 69, has been missing since early Friday, when his GPS monitoring device issued a tampering alert&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":481379,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[74,76,75],"class_list":["post-481378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481378","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=481378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}