{"id":516232,"date":"2026-11-02T18:52:09","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T18:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/516232\/"},"modified":"2026-11-02T18:52:09","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T18:52:09","slug":"bakersfield-police-searching-for-missing-teen-last-seen-near-garces-memorial-high-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/516232\/","title":{"rendered":"Bakersfield police searching for missing teen last seen near Garces Memorial High School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The Bakersfield Police Department is asking for the community\u2019s help in finding a missing 14-year-old girl.<\/p>\n<p>Police said Avery Michelle Mendez was last seen on Saturday, October 31, 2026, around 5:50 p.m. in the 3000 block of Loma Linda Drive, near Garces Memorial High School.<\/p>\n<p>She is described as White, 5\u20191\u201d tall, 90 pounds, with dark brown dyed, shoulder-length hair with bangs, blue eyes, and pierced ears.<\/p>\n<p>She was last seen wearing a lime green hooded sweatshirt with GIR from Invader Zim, black pants, a black and grey JanSport backpack, and black platform Converse shoes.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Police said Avery Michelle Mendez was last seen on Saturday, October 31, 2026, around 5:50 p.m. in the 3000 block of Loma Linda Drive. PHOTO: BPD\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"365\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/d105af60-2a22-4c6c-bc65-8e747946345b-UntitledAugust202025at10.44.4120261102T093908.238.png\" width=\"648\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Police said Avery Michelle Mendez was last seen on Saturday, October 31, 2026, around 5:50 p.m. in the 3000 block of Loma Linda Drive. PHOTO: BPD<\/p>\n<p>Police said she is considered at risk due to being a first-time runaway and mental health concerns.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information regarding her whereabouts is asked to call the Bakersfield Police Department at (661) 327-7111.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The Bakersfield Police Department is asking for the community\u2019s help in finding a missing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":516233,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-516232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516232","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=516232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/516233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}