{"id":283786,"date":"2026-05-08T02:40:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T02:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/283786\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T02:40:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T02:40:07","slug":"amber-alert-issued-for-missing-louisiana-child-last-seen-in-allen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/283786\/","title":{"rendered":"AMBER Alert issued for missing Louisiana child last seen in Allen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/amberalert.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">ALLEN, Texas &#8211; An AMBER Alert has been issued for an abducted child believed to be near Allen.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">13-year-old Merlin Chirinos-Argueta from Keithville, Louisiana was last seen on May 7 at 7:10 p.m., and is believed to be near Allen.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">The suspect is 18-year-old Danile Mejia, who is driving a white Suburban with the license plate VML6061.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Anyone with information is asked to contact the Caddo Parish Sheriff&#8217;s Office. If you see Argueta or Mejia, call 911.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information in this story comes from an AMBER alert.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/collin-county\/allen\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Allen<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/us\/la\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Louisiana<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article ALLEN, Texas &#8211; An AMBER Alert has been issued for an abducted child believed to be near&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283787,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[1242,960,1046,1644,223,160,162,161,216,393],"class_list":["post-283786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-plano","tag-allen","tag-collin-county","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-la","tag-news","tag-plano","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-news","tag-tx","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283786","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=283786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}