{"id":167613,"date":"2026-02-24T22:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T22:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/167613\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T22:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T22:50:08","slug":"florida-missing-child-alert-issued-for-17-year-old-tampa-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/167613\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Missing Child Alert issued for 17-year-old Tampa boy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you see Alvarez Taylor, you should not approach him and instead contact law enforcement immediately.<\/p>\n<p>TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 A Florida Missing Child Alert has been issued for a 17-year-old boy from Hillsborough County.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities say Alvarez Taylor was last seen on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/6800+N+47th+St,+Tampa,+FL+33610\/@28.0086771,-82.4060057,17.25z\/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x88c2c612391f75c5:0x41d05f6d541287f1!8m2!3d28.0087638!4d-82.4060091?entry=ttu&amp;g_ep=EgoyMDI2MDIyMi4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%253D%253D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">North 47th Street off of East Sligh Avenue<\/a> in Tampa.<\/p>\n<p>Taylor is described as being 5-foot-8 and 160 pounds with brown hair and brown eyes. He was last wearing an orange t-shirt with a pumpkin face graphic, dark blue pants, and black and white shoes.<\/p>\n<p>Florida authorities say Taylor may be wearing a green duffel bag as seen in the photo below.<\/p>\n<p>If you see Taylor, Florida authorities say you should not approach him and instead contact law enforcement immediately.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"photo__placeholder\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/a742c3e0-8de9-49b4-84a4-934395b69ed6_16x9.jpg\"\/><br \/>\n                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"photo__main\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/a742c3e0-8de9-49b4-84a4-934395b69ed6_1140x641.jpg\"  alt=\"\" style=\"opacity:0\" onload=\"this.style.opacity=1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you see Alvarez Taylor, you should not approach him and instead contact law enforcement immediately. TAMPA, Fla.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167614,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":{"0":"post-167613","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa","8":"tag-tampa","9":"tag-tampa-headlines","10":"tag-tampa-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}