{"id":187660,"date":"2026-03-11T19:59:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T19:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/187660\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T19:59:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T19:59:09","slug":"child-kidnapped-nearly-6-years-ago-from-california-found-more-than-2500-miles-away-from-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/187660\/","title":{"rendered":"Child kidnapped nearly 6 years ago from California found more than 2,500 miles away from home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">WASHINGTON COUNTY, N.C. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.witn.com\/2026\/03\/10\/child-kidnapped-nearly-six-years-ago-california-found-washington-county\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.witn.com\/2026\/03\/10\/child-kidnapped-nearly-six-years-ago-california-found-washington-county\/\">WITN<\/a>\/Gray News) \u2014 A child kidnapped nearly six years ago from California has been found in North Carolina.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to a missing-person poster, Karen Rojas was 5 when she was kidnapped from Duarte, California, on June 2, 2020.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Washington County Sheriff\u2019s Office in North Carolina said it learned that the now 11-year-old was enrolled in a local school under an alias.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The child was found safe Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The sheriff\u2019s office said no more information is being released at this time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 WITN via Gray Local Media, Inc. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON COUNTY, N.C. (WITN\/Gray News) \u2014 A child kidnapped nearly six years ago from California has been found&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187661,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[4535,88043,88041,36276,88042,68850,88040,13334,1854,232,234,233,28173,88044],"class_list":["post-187660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-california","tag-child-found","tag-duarte","tag-found","tag-karen-rojas","tag-kidnapped","tag-kidnapper","tag-missing-child","tag-north-carolina","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news","tag-washington-county","tag-washington-county-sheriffs-office"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}