{"id":189227,"date":"2026-03-12T21:18:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T21:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/189227\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T21:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T21:18:09","slug":"n-c-teen-missing-for-weeks-found-with-man-during-florida-traffic-stop-sheriff-says-nbc-6-south-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/189227\/","title":{"rendered":"N.C. teen missing for weeks found with man during Florida traffic stop, sheriff says \u2013 NBC 6 South Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New video shows the moment a North Carolina teen who&#8217;d been missing for several weeks was found in a car with a man during a traffic stop in Florida, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>The body camera footage released by the Putnam County Sheriff&#8217;s Office showed a deputy pulling over the car for speeding on Sunday near Crescent City.<\/p>\n<p>During the stop, the teen gave several false names and birth dates, raising concerns for her safety, the sheriff&#8217;s office said.<\/p>\n<p>The teen eventually gave the deputy her real name and it was discovered she&#8217;d been missing from North Carolina in mid-February, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The 37-year-old driver, Joshua Magraff, of Charlotte, North Carolina, initially told the deputy the teen was his cousin, then said he thought she was 19, the sheriff&#8217;s office said.<\/p>\n<p>A search of the car turned up 19 counterfeit $100 bills, synthetic marijuana, marijuana and drug paraphernalia, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Magraff was arrested and booked into jail on multiple charges including interference in child custody, contributing to the delinquency of a minor, and possession charges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New video shows the moment a North Carolina teen who&#8217;d been missing for several weeks was found in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189228,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1009,28,30,29],"class_list":["post-189227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-caught-on-camera","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189227","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=189227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}