{"id":469542,"date":"2026-02-15T05:23:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T05:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/469542\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T05:23:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T05:23:12","slug":"fbi-confirms-arrest-in-connection-to-the-murder-of-missing-teen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/469542\/","title":{"rendered":"FBI confirms arrest in connection to the murder of missing teen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SALTON CITY, Calif. (KYMA) &#8211; The FBI has confirmed an arrest was made in connection to the disappearance and death of <a href=\"https:\/\/kyma.com\/news\/top-stories\/2025\/12\/30\/la-teen-goes-missing-in-palm-springs-area\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">T&#8217;neya Tovar<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/kesq.com\/news\/2026\/02\/14\/fbi-confirms-arrest-in-tneya-tovar-investigation-after-remains-identified-in-salton-city\/#google_vignette\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">our sister station in Palm Springs<\/a>, KESQ, the arrest comes one week after FBI agents raided a home in the Salton City area connected to the investigation, and later returned to the property Friday.<\/p>\n<p>After conducting additional operations on the property Friday, the Imperial County Sheriff&#8217;s Office (ICSO) says a man was <a href=\"https:\/\/kyma.com\/news\/top-stories\/2026\/02\/13\/man-arrested-in-connection-to-death-of-teen-near-salton-sea\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">detained<\/a> at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect, according to KESQ, has been identified as 51-year-old Abraham Feinbloom of Salton City. He was arrested and booked into the Imperial County Jail for murder and resisting arrest, and he&#8217;s being held without bail.<\/p>\n<p>Tovar was reported missing last December after traveling to Thermal, California. Later that month, investigators\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/kyma.com\/news\/breaking-news\/2026\/01\/07\/icso-finds-human-leg-in-the-salton-city-area\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">found human remains in the Salton City area<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Weeks later, DNA testing confirmed the remains belonged to Tovar after her mother\u00a0provided a sample for comparison.<\/p>\n<p>ICSO says the investigation is ongoing with assistance from the FBI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SALTON CITY, Calif. (KYMA) &#8211; The FBI has confirmed an arrest was made in connection to the disappearance&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":469543,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-469542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/469543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}