{"id":500182,"date":"2026-10-18T14:30:17","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T14:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/500182\/"},"modified":"2026-10-18T14:30:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T14:30:17","slug":"woman-arrested-for-kidnapping-child-at-northwest-fresno-park-police-say-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/500182\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman arrested for kidnapping child at northwest Fresno park, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Fresno police arrested an unhoused woman accused of kidnapping a child at a northwest Fresno park.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Friday evening, officers were flagged down by two people at Lions Skate Park on Marks and Emerson Avenues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">They told police a nine-year-old boy appeared visibly frightened while being pulled by 55-year-old Debbie Blancas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The witnesses say they were able to remove the child from Blanca&#8217;s grasp.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The suspect left and was later found by police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Officers say Blancas lured the child using a small dog and pulled him away from the park.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Blancas was arrested for kidnapping and false imprisonment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fresno police arrested an unhoused woman accused of kidnapping a child at a northwest Fresno park. Friday evening,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":500183,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-500182","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\/500182","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=500182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}