{"id":76828,"date":"2026-01-03T06:45:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T06:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/76828\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T06:45:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T06:45:13","slug":"missing-15-year-old-texas-girl-believed-to-be-with-wanted-man-authorities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/76828\/","title":{"rendered":"Missing 15-year-old Texas girl believed to be with wanted man: authorities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities in Texas said they are searching for a missing 15-year-old girl who they believe is with a wanted man. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Maryuri Yolani Gomez Marquez (Photo: Texas Department of Public Safety){ }\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/ad4233b6-7d63-45d6-93c0-a67f147f1faf-Screenshot20260102at3.17.38PM.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Maryuri Yolani Gomez Marquez (Photo: Texas Department of Public Safety){ }<\/p>\n<p>Maryuri Yolani Gomez Marquez was last seen in Plains, Texas on Sunday morning around 8 a.m., according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/txalerts.dps.texas.gov\/api\/public\/flier?id=2205&amp;lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Texas Department of Public Safety<\/a>. An AMBER alert was issued in connection with her disappearance, the agency said on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>The agency said the teenager was last seen with 41-year-old Juan Orlando Garcia Sarmiento. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Juan Orlando Garcia Sarmiento (Photo:{ }Texas Department of Public Safety)\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/e7eb179b-4e70-4c10-8604-3a7971b87a3a-Screenshot20260102at3.12.07PM.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Juan Orlando Garcia Sarmiento (Photo:{ }Texas Department of Public Safety)<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/YoakumCountySheriff\/posts\/pfbid02n9ZtUkC9MSegHWUBGwexDbrxARJL2N6tUC9tef5N5J3CAK92Nw4WNfPKPZbS2Cycl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Yoakum County Sheriff\u2019s Office<\/a> said Garcia Sarmiento &#8220;is wanted by law enforcement on related charges.&#8221; The department did not go into detail about the charges. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Yoakum County Sheriff\u2019s Office along with the Department of Public Safety and other law enforcement partners in multiple jurisdictions are actively working to locate Maryuri Yolani Gomez Marquez,&#8221; the sheriff&#8217;s office said in a Facebook post.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities described the teenager as a Hispanic girl who is approximately 5 feet 1 inch tall and weighs about 125 pounds. She has brown hair and brown eyes.<\/p>\n<p>Garcia Sarmiento is also Hispanic. He is approximately 5 feet 9 inches tall and weighs 180 pounds. He has black hair and brown eyes.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Authorities in Texas say the teenager and the man they believe she is with are{ } traveling in a black 2010 Ford F-150 crew cab{ } with Texas plates WGV-9997. (Photo:{ }Texas Department of Public Safety)\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/fdf71254-d3f2-43b9-9010-481b247f6c1c-Screenshot20260102at3.23.33PM.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Authorities in Texas say the teenager and the man they believe she is with are{ } traveling in a black 2010 Ford F-150 crew cab{ } with Texas plates WGV-9997. (Photo:{ }Texas Department of Public Safety)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They are believed to be traveling in a black 2010 Ford F-150 crew cab TX plates WGV-9997,&#8221; the sheriff&#8217;s office said.Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>Authorities urged anyone who has information about their whereabouts please contact either the sheriff\u2019s office at 806-456-2377 or the Texas Department of Public Safety at 806-740-8770.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Authorities in Texas said they are searching for a missing 15-year-old girl who they believe is with a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76829,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":{"0":"post-76828","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scranton","8":"tag-scranton","9":"tag-scranton-headlines","10":"tag-scranton-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76828","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=76828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}