{"id":499950,"date":"2026-10-18T07:12:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T07:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/499950\/"},"modified":"2026-10-18T07:12:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T07:12:10","slug":"woman-arrested-for-kidnapping-child-at-northwest-fresno-park-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/499950\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman arrested for kidnapping child at northwest Fresno park, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KFSN logo\" class=\"awXxV NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl CfkUa EknAv NwgWd \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1792307530_309_origin-kfsn.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Sunday, October 18, 2026 4:38AM<\/p>\n<p>Fresno police arrested an unhoused woman accused of kidnapping a child at a northwest Fresno park.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; Fresno police arrested an unhoused woman accused of kidnapping a child at a northwest Fresno park.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Friday evening, officers were flagged down by two people at Lions Skate Park on Marks and Emerson Avenues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">They told police a nine-year-old boy appeared visibly frightened while being pulled by 55-year-old Debbie Blancas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The witnesses say they were able to remove the child from Blanca&#8217;s grasp.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The suspect left and was later found by police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Officers say Blancas lured the child using a small dog and pulled him away from the park.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Blancas was arrested for kidnapping and false imprisonment.<br class=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KFSN-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sunday, October 18, 2026 4:38AM Fresno police arrested an unhoused woman accused of kidnapping a child at a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":499951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[193873,112,114,113,25755,193872,1075,294,16189],"class_list":["post-499950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-193873","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-kidnapping","tag-lions-skate-park","tag-northwest-fresno","tag-timely","tag-woman-arrested"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499950","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=499950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}