{"id":516800,"date":"2026-11-03T05:16:37","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T05:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/516800\/"},"modified":"2026-11-03T05:16:37","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T05:16:37","slug":"teen-reported-missing-saturday-evening-found-according-to-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/516800\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen reported missing Saturday evening, found, according to family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">UPDATE: A 14-year-old girl who was reported missing Saturday evening in northeast Bakersfield has been found, according to her family.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) &#8212; Police are searching for a teenage girl who was last seen on Saturday evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Bakersfield police said 14-year-old Avery Michelle Mendez was last seen on Halloween, around 5:50 p.m., in the 3000 block of Loma Linda Drive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a data-ylk=\"slk:Watch 17 News, After Sunrise and more local news free on your smart TV. Click to learn more about KGET+;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kget.com\/plus\/\" class=\"promo-link__link\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0Watch 17 News, After Sunrise and more local news free on your smart TV. Click to learn more about KGET+\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">BPD said Mendez is considered &#8220;at-risk&#8221; due to being a first time runaway and mental health concerns.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Law enforcement is describing Mendez said being 5 feet and 1 inch tall, weighing about 90 pounds and having shoulder-length hair dyed dark brown with bangs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">BPD said she also has blue eyes and pierced ears.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The department said she was last seen wearing a lime green hooded sweatshirt with &#8220;GIR from Invader Zim&#8221; on it, black pants, black Converse shoes and a black and gray JanSport backpack.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Anyone with information about Mendez&#8217;s whereabouts is encouraged to contact the Bakersfield Police Department at 661-327-7111.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<a data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KGET 17 News.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kget.com\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KGET 17 News.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UPDATE: A 14-year-old girl who was reported missing Saturday evening in northeast Bakersfield has been found, according to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":516801,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-516800","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\/516800","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=516800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/516801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}