{"id":345211,"date":"2026-09-12T21:06:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T21:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/345211\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T21:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T21:06:09","slug":"officials-missing-spartanburg-co-teen-found-in-new-york-22-year-old-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/345211\/","title":{"rendered":"Officials: Missing Spartanburg Co. teen found in New York; 22-year-old arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">SPARTANBURG COUNTY, S.C. (FOX Carolina) &#8211; Deputies with the Spartanburg County Sheriff\u2019s Office said a missing teen was found out of state.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The sheriff\u2019s office reported that just before 5 p.m. on Friday, deputies responded to Cromwell Drive in reference to a missing 14-year-old.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Deputies did not specify the teen\u2019s name.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Deputies said they spoke with family members and friends of the teen and learned the teen had been communicating with an individual who claimed to be from New York.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Officials said investigators eventually identified the individual as Caesar Daniel Palacios-Escalon, 22, of Long Island.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to deputies, further investigation determined Palacios-Escalon had been in Spartanburg County around the time of the teen\u2019s disappearance and was traveling toward his home in New York.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Officials said investigators coordinated with the New York State Police, who located Palacios-Escalon around 1 a.m. on Saturday. The teen was found safe with Palacios-Escalon. Deputies said the teen was placed into protective custody, and Palacios-Escalon was arrested by New York State Police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Spartanburg County Sheriff\u2019s Office said it obtained an arrest warrant charging Palacios-Escalon with kidnapping. Officials said he is currently being held in New York on local charges.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Officials said the investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">Feel more informed, prepared, and connected with FOX Carolina. For more free content like this, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxcarolina.com\/page\/apps\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.foxcarolina.com\/page\/apps\/\">download our apps<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WHNS. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SPARTANBURG COUNTY, S.C. (FOX Carolina) &#8211; Deputies with the Spartanburg County Sheriff\u2019s Office said a missing teen was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":345212,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[47895,129357,4750,9,24,55,54,747,56,129356,35404,129355],"class_list":["post-345211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-deputies","tag-fox-carolina","tag-missing","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-new-york-state-police","tag-ny","tag-palacios-escalon","tag-spartanburg","tag-spartanburg-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}