{"id":180840,"date":"2026-03-06T15:23:26","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T15:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/180840\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T15:23:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T15:23:26","slug":"police-seek-missing-15-year-old-boy-last-seen-at-south-plantation-high-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/180840\/","title":{"rendered":"Police seek missing 15-year-old boy last seen at South Plantation High School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0March 6, 2026 at 10:01 AM<\/p>\n<p>lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpand<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/I7VGOKXWYVARDFDB6Q6ZXZX7X4.jpg\"  width=\"1280\" height=\"720\"\/>Kenneth Pena. (Plantation Police Department) <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">PLANTATION, Fla.  \u2014 Plantation police are searching for a missing teenager who they said was last seen at his school earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/03\/06\/buscan-a-adolescente-de-15-anos-desaparecido-visto-por-ultima-vez-en-south-plantation-high-school\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/03\/06\/buscan-a-adolescente-de-15-anos-desaparecido-visto-por-ultima-vez-en-south-plantation-high-school\/\">Leer en espa\u00f1ol<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Kenneth Pena, 15, was last seen around 7:40 a.m. on Wednesday at South Plantation High School, located at 1300 SW 54th Ave., authorities said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">They said Pena is about 5 feet, 7 inches tall and weighs around 150 pounds. He has curly brown hair and brown eyes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police said he was last seen wearing a gray hoodie, blue pants, black slides and white socks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Authorities consider Pena a runaway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Anyone who sees him or has information about his whereabouts is urged to call police at 954-797-2100.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Ryan Mackey\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/8725e99c-e445-48a0-bd.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Ryan Mackey <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Ryan Mackey is a Digital Journalist at WPLG. He was born on Long Island, New York, and has lived in Sunrise, Florida since 1994.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0March 6, 2026 at 10:01 AM lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpandKenneth Pena. (Plantation Police Department) PLANTATION, Fla. \u2014 Plantation police are searching&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180841,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-180840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180840","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=180840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}