Oakland police seek public’s help locating missing 13-year-old girl 9%
By Warren Pederson0%
7/18/2026, 4:10:23 PM
Keywords: California, East Bay
BS Summary: This article contains 4 faulty reasoning types, including Framing Effect, Indoctrination, and Availability Heuristic, with Fundamental Attribution Error as the most egregious example at 25.3% saturation with 25 hits. Analysis detected 79 faulty-reasoning hits from 99 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 26.6% and a BS Rank of 9% (16,495 of 18,098 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 91.10% of the article peer group.
Oakland police are seeking the public’s help locating a 13-year-old girl missing since last Monday.
Gheisimar Marcano-Hernandez is Latina, stands 5 feet, 5 inches and weighs 160 pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes, according to the Oakland Police Department.
Gheisimar was last seen around 10 a.m.
Monday on the 3400 block of Davis Street in East Oakland, police said.
She is known to frequent the Peralta Hacienda Historical Park in the Fruitvale neighborhood.
Police ask anyone with information on Gheisimar’s whereabouts to contact their missing persons unit at 510-238-3641.
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