{"id":564460,"date":"2026-04-04T16:59:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T16:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/564460\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T16:59:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T16:59:16","slug":"amber-alert-issued-for-missing-8-year-old-girl-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/564460\/","title":{"rendered":"Amber Alert issued for missing 8-year-old girl | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph SCXW86123509 BCX8\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">WAUTOMA, Wis. (WKBT) &#8212;\u00a0An Amber Alert has been issued for La Crosse and Monroe Counties asking for the public\u2019s help\u00a0in\u00a0locating\u00a08-year-old Irene J. Lentz\u00a0of Wautoma.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph SCXW86123509 BCX8\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">Irene may be in the company of Joseph Nicpon\u00a0Jr.\u00a0and Betty\u00a0Lentz\u00a0and there is a concern for Irene\u2019s safety. A 2005 blue Buick Terraza van with Wisconsin license plate number BCU3028 was last seen traveling\u00a0westbound on I-90 near Sparta at 12:55 p.m. on Friday\u00a0and is believed to be transporting Irene.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph SCXW86123509 BCX8\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">Irene is a white female with brown hair and hazel eyes.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph SCXW86123509 BCX8\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">Joseph Nicpon Jr is a 44-year-old white male, 6\u20190\u201d 170\u00a0lbs\u00a0with brown hair and green eyes.\u00a0Betty Lentz is a 34-year-old white female, 5\u20193\u201d 190\u00a0lbs\u00a0with brown hair and brown eyes.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph SCXW86123509 BCX8\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">If you have information\u00a0pertaining to\u00a0this alert, contact the Wautoma Police Department at 920-787-3321. For emergencies, call 911.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u200bCOPYRIGHT 2026 BY NEWS 8 NOW\/NEWS 8000. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. THIS MATERIAL MAY NOT BE PUBLISHED, BROADCAST, REWRITTEN OR REDISTRIBUTED.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WAUTOMA, Wis. (WKBT) &#8212;\u00a0An Amber Alert has been issued for La Crosse and Monroe Counties asking for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":564461,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,983,3,13109,452,453],"class_list":["post-564460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-state","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564460","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=564460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/564461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=564460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=564460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=564460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}