{"id":6494,"date":"2025-10-18T00:20:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T00:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/6494\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T00:20:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T00:20:08","slug":"lancaster-township-police-attempting-to-locate-missing-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/6494\/","title":{"rendered":"Lancaster Township police attempting to locate missing child"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lancaster Township police attempting to locate missing child<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1760746808_718_wgal.png\" class=\"lazyload lazyload-in-view branding\" alt=\"WGAL logo\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tUpdated: 7:58 PM EDT Oct 17, 2025\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wgal.com\/article\/hearst-television-news-policy-statements\/14471973\" class=\"editorial-standards border-left\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Editorial Standards \u24d8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tThe Lancaster Township Police Department is searching for a young child who has not been seen since Oct. 15.According to the LTPD, the child is a 3-year-old girl named Ava Blake, who was last seen with her father, Stephen, on Wednesday of this week. The police are asking the public to be on the lookout for two vehicles that may be associated with Blake. The first is a light gray Hyundai Sonata with a Pennsylvania license plate of LJM1292, which is missing a side door bumper. The second is a Honda Civic of unknown color with a Pennsylvania license plate of MLA1054. Ava has brown eyes and short, curly brown hair.     Anyone with knowledge about Ava or Stephen&#8217;s location is asked to reach out to police at 717-664-1180 or by emailing jwhiteside@lancastertownshippolice.org. Members of the public can also submit an anonymous tip through CrimeWatch.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tLANCASTER TOWNSHIP, Pa. \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The Lancaster Township Police Department is searching for a young child who has not been seen since Oct. 15.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/lancaster.crimewatchpa.com\/lancastertwppd\/299349\/broadcasts\/attempt-locate-ava-blake\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the LTPD<\/a>, the child is a 3-year-old girl named Ava Blake, who was last seen with her father, Stephen, on Wednesday of this week. The police are asking the public to be on the lookout for two vehicles that may be associated with Blake. <\/p>\n<p>The first is a light gray Hyundai Sonata with a Pennsylvania license plate of LJM1292, which is missing a side door bumper. <\/p>\n<p>The second is a Honda Civic of unknown color with a Pennsylvania license plate of MLA1054. <\/p>\n<p>Ava has brown eyes and short, curly brown hair. <\/p>\n<p>\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\" aspect-ratio-original lazyload lazyload-in-view\" alt=\"lanacaster township police ava blake 1\" title=\"lanacaster township police ava blake 1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/ava-blake-1-68f2d405048b4.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tHearst OwnedLancaster Township Police Department\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\" aspect-ratio-original lazyload lazyload-in-view\" alt=\"lanacaster township police ava blake 2\" title=\"lanacaster township police ava blake 2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/ava-blake-2-68f2d44a56634.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tHearst OwnedLancaster Township Police Department\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tLancaster Township police are searching for a young child who has not been seen since Oct. 15.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with knowledge about Ava or Stephen&#8217;s location is asked to reach out to police at 717-664-1180 or by emailing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wgal.com\/article\/lancaster-twp-police-attempt-locate-avablake-missing-child\/mailto:JWhiteside@LancasterTownshipPolice.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">jwhiteside@lancastertownshippolice.org<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Members of the public can also submit an anonymous tip <a href=\"https:\/\/lancaster.crimewatchpa.com\/lancastertwppd\/299349\/webforms\/submit-tip\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">through CrimeWatch<\/a>.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lancaster Township police attempting to locate missing child Updated: 7:58 PM EDT Oct 17, 2025 Editorial Standards \u24d8&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6495,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[5854,5863,5855,5862,5864,5859,5866,5860,28,30,5856,29,206,5858,5857,5861,2583,5865],"class_list":{"0":"post-6494","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pennsylvania","8":"tag-ava-blake","9":"tag-brown-eye","10":"tag-child","11":"tag-honda-civic","12":"tag-knowledge","13":"tag-lancaster-township-police","14":"tag-location","15":"tag-mla1054","16":"tag-pennsylvania","17":"tag-pennsylvania-headlines","18":"tag-pennsylvania-license-plate","19":"tag-pennsylvania-news","20":"tag-police","21":"tag-public","22":"tag-stephen","23":"tag-unknown-color","24":"tag-wednesday","25":"tag-week"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}