{"id":354576,"date":"2026-06-29T16:58:24","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T16:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/354576\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T16:58:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T16:58:24","slug":"police-identify-20-year-old-man-after-canal-body-recovery-in-lower-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/354576\/","title":{"rendered":"Police identify 20-year-old man after canal body recovery in Lower Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>El Paso police identified the man after a body was recovered in a canal in the Lower Valley.<\/p>\n<p>The man was identified as 20-year-old Cristian Yamil Bernal Mejia.<\/p>\n<p>The incident happened on Sunday afternoon. <\/p>\n<p>The incident happened near Alameda Avenue and Fresno Street in the Lower Valley. <\/p>\n<p>Police said the investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>RECOMMENDED: <a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/newsletter-daily\/el-paso-police-investigate-after-body-recovered-from-mission-valley-canal?SRC=LINK\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">El Paso police investigate after body recovered from Mission Valley canal<\/a><\/p>\n<p>No other information was provided. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/sign-up]\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sign up <\/a>to receive the top interesting stories from in and around our community once daily in your inbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"El Paso police identified the man after a body was recovered in a canal in the Lower Valley.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":354577,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-354576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354576","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=354576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}