{"id":12086,"date":"2026-03-19T12:49:53","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T18:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/missing-san-juan-county-child-found-in-california\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T03:31:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T03:31:23","slug":"missing-san-juan-county-child-found-in-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/missing-san-juan-county-child-found-in-california\/","title":{"rendered":"Missing San Juan County child found in California"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=5bca6051-0935-4365-8cfa-98f87e92e4a9&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1300\" height=\"887\" alt=\"Aztec San Juan County Sheriff\u2019s Office New Mexico.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Aztec San Juan County Sheriff\u2019s Office New Mexico.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">du1-i-syn<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>A joint operation between the San Juan County Sheriff\u2019s Office, the U.S. Marshals Service and law enforcement in California led to the recovery of a missing 2-year-old in California.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe safe recovery of this child is the result of strong coordination between law-enforcement partners across multiple states,\u201d said David Barnett, U.S. marshal for the district of New Mexico. \u201cWe are grateful for the work of the investigators who followed this lead and ensured this child could be safely reunited with his family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The child was taken by his mother, Crystal Salazar, in September 2024 after she lost primary custody to the boy\u2019s father, Stephen West, according to a news release from the Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p>West reported the child missing in October 2025, and a warrant for custodial interference, a fourth-degree felony, was issued against Salazar, the release said.<\/p>\n<p>The Sheriff\u2019s Office initiated a complex investigation that tracked Salazar across multiple states before locating her in California.<\/p>\n<p>Salazar was arrested last week, and the child was returned to his father in New Mexico, according to the Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sheriff\u2019s Office and U.S. Marshals Service arrest child\u2019s mother<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10626,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-12086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-headlines","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12086"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18591,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12086\/revisions\/18591"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12086"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=12086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}