{"id":21292,"date":"2025-07-24T22:50:16","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T04:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/update-child-who-went-missing-in-san-juan-mountains-is-found\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T22:05:40","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T04:05:40","slug":"update-child-who-went-missing-in-san-juan-mountains-is-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/update-child-who-went-missing-in-san-juan-mountains-is-found\/","title":{"rendered":"Update: Child who went missing in San Juan Mountains is found"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=2cdf77f0-fab7-5c0f-8a6d-4c19609607ed&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1035\" alt=\"Barely any snowpack remains Thursday in the San Juan Mountains. (Jerry McBride\/Durango Herald)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Barely any snowpack remains Thursday in the San Juan Mountains. (Jerry McBride\/Durango Herald)<\/span><span class=\"credit\">cca<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>A juvenile who went missing earlier Thursday in the San Juan Mountains was found and taken to a hospital, according to the Montezuma County Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis search came to a positive conclusion due to everyone\u2019s help and assistance,\u201d read a Facebook post made by the Sheriff\u2019s Office just after 5 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>In the post, Montezuma County Search and Rescue and emergency medical helicopter company Classic Air were thanked.<\/p>\n<p>The initial post notifying the public of the missing child was made about 3 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>At that time, law enforcement said that they did not need additional searchers and would request more volunteer help if the need arose.<\/p>\n<p>The Sheriff\u2019s Office also urged people not to go searching on their own, as this may create an additional risk by causing more people to go missing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlease do not take it upon yourself to go into the search area and act on your own accord,\u201d the post read. \u201cAll available resources are currently being used to locate the missing person. We do not want to have to divert any of those resources to locate or rescue any other persons.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At least two other Facebook posts identified by <em id=\"emphasis-c527ae933069af08a1f3dd7a6c993542\">The Journal <\/em>said that the child had gone missing during a hike Wednesday evening near the San Juan Bible Camp, about 6 miles north of Mancos, but the reports could not be confirmed.<\/p>\n<p><em id=\"emphasis-7864afafd777fd7b63e41578b99b3bee\">This is a developing story and updates will be provided as more information becomes available.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sheriff\u2019s Office says child was taken to a hospital<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21293,"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-21292","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\/21292","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=21292"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77248,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21292\/revisions\/77248"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21292"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=21292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}