FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 A woman was arrested after a civilian flagged down nearby police officers to report an alleged kidnapping from a park on Friday night.<\/p>\n
Fresno police officers were flagged down by a woman and a child at a park near North Marks and East Emerson Avenue at around 5:15 p.m.<\/p>\n
The woman told police that a woman later identified as 55-year-old Debbie Blancas was pulling a child and walking away on North Marks Avenue.<\/p>\n
Officers were told that Blancas has no children.<\/p>\n
According to the investigation, before police arrived, the woman approached Blancas and noticed that the child was scared.<\/p>\n
Blancas attempted to portray herself as the victim’s mother.<\/p>\n
The woman attempted to take the child, but Blancas grabbed the child\u2019s backpack and held on to him.<\/p>\n
The woman got the child away from Blancas.<\/p>\n
Blanca ran southbound on North Marks Avenue before the woman was able to flag down the police car.<\/p>\n
Police said that Blancas had lured a 9-year-old boy away from the park by using a small dog, then took the boy in the opposite direction of his home.<\/p>\n
Police were able to locate Blancas, and she was arrested on suspicion of kidnapping and false imprisonment.<\/p>\n
The boy was returned to his family safely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 A woman was arrested after a civilian flagged down nearby police officers to report…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":499582,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-499581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499581","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=499581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}