{"id":283757,"date":"2026-05-08T02:12:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T02:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/283757\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T02:12:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T02:12:07","slug":"amber-alert-texas-authorities-search-for-13-year-old-girl-abducted-from-louisiana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/283757\/","title":{"rendered":"AMBER Alert: Texas authorities search for 13-year-old girl abducted from Louisiana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities issued an AMBER Alert for 13-year-old Merlin Argueta, abducted from Louisiana, last seen in Allen, Texas, with an 18-year-old.<\/p>\n<p>ALLEN, Texas \u2014 An AMBER Alert was issued Thursday night after authorities say a child was abducted from Keithville, Louisiana, and was last seen near Allen, Texas.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Caddo Parish Sheriff&#8217;s Office, 13-year-old Merlin Argueta was reported missing on May 7 from the 6200 block of Bain Boulevard.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The department lists the suspect vehicle as a white Chevrolet Suburban with Texas license plate VML6061.<\/p>\n<p>Argueta was described as a Hispanic female, 5&#8217;4&#8243; tall, and weighing about 110 pounds.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities suspect that Merlin may be with an 18-year-old named Daniel Osan Vasquez Mejia.<\/p>\n<p>If seen, witnesses should call 911.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Authorities issued an AMBER Alert for 13-year-old Merlin Argueta, abducted from Louisiana, last seen in Allen, Texas, with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283758,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-283757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283757","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=283757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}