{"id":488094,"date":"2026-10-07T14:04:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T14:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/488094\/"},"modified":"2026-10-07T14:04:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T14:04:08","slug":"missing-yuba-city-teen-rescued-after-dramatic-central-california-police-chase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/488094\/","title":{"rendered":"Missing Yuba City teen rescued after dramatic Central California police chase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A missing Yuba City teen was rescued from a burning vehicle after a police chase ended with the driver going off a cliff in Kern County, police said.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Yuba City Police Department, the 17-year-old was reported missing Sept. 27 from a home on White Rock Drive. Police considered her at risk because of her age, a medical condition and the circumstances of her disappearance.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators learned she had been communicating with 26-year-old Cameron Childers, a Texas man who had recently traveled to Yuba City.<\/p>\n<p>Police noted Childers also had pending charges in Texas involving child sexual abuse material.<\/p>\n<p>Flock cameras helped detectives track Childers&#8217; vehicle from Yuba City to the Bakersfield area, police said.<\/p>\n<p>When officers tried to stop him, police said Childers led them on a chase through the Kern River Canyon toward Lake Isabella. CHP deployed spike strips, but Childers continued driving before eventually going off a cliff.<\/p>\n<p>Officers rescued Childers and the teen as the vehicle caught fire. Both suffered minor to moderate injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Yuba City detectives later arrested Childers on suspicion of several crimes, including child abduction, kidnapping, rape and contacting a child with intent to commit a specified offense.<\/p>\n<p>Childers was booked into the Kern County Jail, where he also faces charges related to the chase.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A missing Yuba City teen was rescued from a burning vehicle after a police chase ended with the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":488095,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,706,16383],"class_list":["post-488094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-central-california","tag-yuba-city"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488094","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=488094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/488095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}