{"id":705774,"date":"2026-05-31T06:28:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T06:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/705774\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T06:28:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T06:28:14","slug":"police-find-autistic-boy-who-went-missing-in-wild-weather-in-perth-overnight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/705774\/","title":{"rendered":"Police find autistic boy who went missing in wild weather in Perth overnight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">An 11-year-old autistic boy, who is non-verbal, has been found after going missing from Perth&#8217;s western suburbs in wild weather on Saturday afternoon.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Norman Krakouer was shirtless and wearing only a pair of blue shorts when he was last seen about 5:15pm yesterday near a residence on Lantana Avenue in Mount Claremont.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Significant resources had been committed to the search for him, with SES volunteers joining police on foot and horseback, while a powerful storm lashed the city.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Police officers leading horses across road \" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/4ef524381a61d44b257c3a7e4fd06a75.jpeg\" loading=\"lazy\" data-component=\"Image\" data-lazy=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP FigureCaption_text__zDxQ5 Typography_sizeMobile12__w_FPC Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">Police took part in the search on foot and horseback. (ABC News: Samantha Goerling\u00a0)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Inspector Mark Tobiassen said Norman had been found safe and well this morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">&#8220;He was making his way back to the house, it would seem, and someone saw him in the street and took him in, wrapped him up, called the police,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">&#8220;[The family] asked me to express their thanks \u2026 to everybody who had anything to do with searching for Norman overnight.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"People in bright orange SES uniform standing around \" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/823d79fb0d5266428df7e13867f63bf8.jpeg\" loading=\"lazy\" data-component=\"Image\" data-lazy=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP FigureCaption_text__zDxQ5 Typography_sizeMobile12__w_FPC Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">Police and SES volunteers searched through the night.\u00a0 (ABC News: Samantha Goerling\u00a0)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">&#8220;Family will take him up to the hospital just to get checked out, but he was very excited and happy to be back with his family.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">More than 50 members of the community searched for Norman through the night.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An 11-year-old autistic boy, who is non-verbal, has been found after going missing from Perth&#8217;s western suburbs in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":705775,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[64,63,14589,343457,118099,343459,343458,17174,17173,343456,86,61836,96541,6876,214001,85,34792,45],"class_list":["post-705774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-breaking","tag-missing-autistic-boy","tag-missing-boy","tag-missing-perth-boy","tag-mount-claremont","tag-news-perth","tag-news-wa","tag-norman-krakouer","tag-perth-news","tag-perth-weather","tag-police-search","tag-rainfall","tag-ses-volunteers","tag-sports","tag-storms","tag-wa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=705774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/705775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=705774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=705774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=705774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}