PORT ST. LUCIE \u2013 A Port St. Lucie police officer and K9 successfully located a missing 13-year-old autistic boy, about five miles south of where he was reported missing on March 2, according to a Facebook posting by Port St. Lucie police<\/p>\n
At about 5 p.m., March 2, Fort Pierce Police responded to the 2700 block of U.S. 1 for reports of a missing child.<\/p>\n
After officers searched the area, surveillance video was located of the child walking toward a neighborhood on Grand Club Place.<\/p>\n
Fort Pierce police then contacted Port St. Lucie Police at about 6 p.m., to request assistance of its K9 unit to track the child, while Fort Pierce Police\u2019s drone unit searched the area, according to the Facebook posting.<\/p>\n
Officer Robert Burdick and K9 Hoot tracked the missing 13-year-old in the woods near a railroad track at about 7 p.m..<\/p>\n
At the same time, the Fort Pierce Police\u2019s drone was able to illuminate the child, successfully locating him and eventually reuniting him with his family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORT ST. LUCIE \u2013 A Port St. Lucie police officer and K9 successfully located a missing 13-year-old autistic…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177875,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172,563],"class_list":["post-177874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news","tag-st_lucie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177874","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=177874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}