{"id":179097,"date":"2026-02-25T04:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T04:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/179097\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T04:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T04:26:09","slug":"amber-alert-issued-for-austin-12-year-old-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/179097\/","title":{"rendered":"AMBER Alert issued for Austin 12-year-old girl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities issued an<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statesman.com\/news\/article\/amber-hagerman-30-years-amber-alert-legacy-21292821.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> AMBER Alert<\/a> for a reported child abduction in Austin on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Travis County Sheriff\u2019s Office, officials are searching for <a href=\"https:\/\/txalerts.dps.texas.gov\/api\/public\/flier?id=2234&amp;lang=en\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">12-year-old Jazzlyn Anzora<\/a>. She was last seen early Tuesday morning in the 1700 block of Wells Branch Parkway in North Austin.<\/p>\n<p>Officials say Anzora is 5 feet, 3 inches tall\u00a0and weighs roughly 140 pounds. She has black hair and brown eyes, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>She was last seen wearing a red sweater, a white long-sleeved shirt and Christmas-themed pajama pants, officials said. She was also carrying a black Nike backpack.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect is identified as 18-year-old Henry Mejia, according to the sheriff\u2019s office. He may be driving a red 2017 Ford Mustang with Texas license plate VVK2712. The vehicle has aftermarket chrome wheels and a sticker showing the\u00a0Instagram logo on the passenger-side window, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Texas Department of Public Safety,\u00a0Meija is 5 feet, 9 inches tall with black hair and\u00a0brown eyes, and he weighs about 170 pounds. He has a shaved line on his eyebrow, DPS said.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is asked to call 911.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Authorities issued an AMBER Alert for a reported child abduction in Austin on Tuesday night. According to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":179098,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":{"0":"post-179097","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-austin","8":"tag-austin","9":"tag-austin-headlines","10":"tag-austin-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179097","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=179097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}