{"id":375611,"date":"2010-03-01T11:47:40","date_gmt":"2010-03-01T16:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a8e6b0e0970b"},"modified":"2010-03-02T01:06:43","modified_gmt":"2010-03-02T06:06:43","slug":"search-continues-in-san-diego-county-for-missing-17-year-old-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/375611","title":{"rendered":"Search continues in San Diego County for missing 17-year-old girl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a8ea3cf6970b-pi\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Lat.missing\" class=\"asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a8ea3cf6970b \" src=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a8ea3cf6970b-500wi\"><\/img><\/a> <br \/><\/br> San Diego County investigators continued their search Monday for a missing 17-year-old girl after a man was arrested in connection with her disappearance.<\/p>\n<p>John Albert Gardner III, 30, was arrested Sunday afternoon outside a business in Escondido after investigators uncovered evidence linking the registered sex offender to the disappearance of Chelsea King from the Lake Hodges area, authorities said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDuring the search the last three days we have obtained <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktla.com\/media\/photo\/2010-03\/52499099.jpg\" style=\"margin: 2px; float: right; width: 103px; height: 113px;\"><\/img>numerous pieces of physical evidence in the search scene,\u201d San Diego County Sheriff Bill Gore said Monday in an interview with ABC&#8217;s \u201cGood Morning America.\u201d \u201cOne of those pieces of evidence we were able to tie to John Gardner.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gardner, of Lake Elsinore, was convicted in a previous incident of one count of lewd acts with a child under 14, according to state records.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nKing disappeared Thursday after failing to return from an afternoon run near Lake Hodges, investigators said.<br \/>\nHelicopters scoured the area and volunteers waded chest-deep in the murky water looking for signs of the Poway High School senior.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Friends set up a Facebook page and website to help the search effort. The case is being handled by homicide investigators.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Amina Khan <\/p>\n<p>Photos: <em>Searchers examine a backpack discovered along a creek near Lake Hodges in Escondido. Credit: Don Bartletti\/Los Angeles Times<\/em>. <em>Photo of Gardner. Credit: San Diego County Sheriff&#8217;s Department.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>More breaking news in L.A. 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John Albert Gardner III, 30, was arrested Sunday afternoon outside a business in Escondido after investigators uncovered evidence linking the registered sex offender to the disappearance of Chelsea King from the Lake [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5470,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-375611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5470"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}