{"id":105157,"date":"2025-12-30T18:01:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T18:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/105157\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T18:01:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T18:01:12","slug":"el-paso-county-sheriffs-office-looks-for-teen-missing-more-than-a-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/105157\/","title":{"rendered":"El Paso County Sheriff’s Office looks for teen missing more than a week"},"content":{"rendered":"

The El Paso County Sheriff’s Office is asking for the public’s help in finding a 14-year-old boy who has been missing for more than a week.<\/p>\n

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Axel Gerardo Esparza was last seen at about 8 a.m. on Dec. 20 around the 13000 block of Barnard Drive in the Sparks area off Horizon Boulevard, stated a news release issued by sheriff’s spokeswoman Priscilla I. Contreras on Monday, Dec. 29.<\/p>\n

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Axel Gerardo Esparza, 14, was reported missing after last seen in the Sparks area off Horizon Boulevard in eastern El Paso County on Dec. 20, 2025.<\/p>\n

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Esparza is about 5 feet 9 inches tall, 140 pounds with black hair and a light complexion. He was last seen wearing a red hoodie, gray sweatpants and black shoes, the Sheriff’s Office reported.<\/p>\n

Anyone with information regarding Esparza’s location may call the El Paso County Sheriff\u2019s Office at 915-832-4408.<\/p>\n

Daniel Borunda may be reached at dborunda@elpasotimes.com and\u00a0@BorundaDaniel<\/a>\u00a0on X.<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on El Paso Times: Search continues for El Paso County teen missing for more than a week<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The El Paso County Sheriff’s Office is asking for the public’s help in finding a 14-year-old boy who…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":105158,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[47505,138,1060,140,139,1058],"class_list":{"0":"post-105157","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-el-paso","8":"tag-axel-gerardo-esparza","9":"tag-el-paso","10":"tag-el-paso-county","11":"tag-el-paso-headlines","12":"tag-el-paso-news","13":"tag-horizon-city"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}