{"id":190255,"date":"2026-03-13T15:09:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T15:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/190255\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T15:09:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T15:09:15","slug":"teen-reported-missing-after-failing-to-return-home-from-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/190255\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen reported missing after failing to return home from school"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0March 13, 2026 at 9:57 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\/LPDZS5GIHRACFAKFXER5XQUY6I.jpg\"  width=\"1280\" height=\"720\"\/>Evek Adian Acosta (Miami-Dade Schools Police) <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla.  \u2014 Miami-Dade Schools Police Department officers are searching for a 14-year-old boy who was reported missing after failing to return home from school Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/03\/13\/policia-de-escuelas-de-miami-dade-reportan-desaparecido-a-adolescente-que-no-regreso-a-casa-tras-salir-de-la-escuela\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/03\/13\/policia-de-escuelas-de-miami-dade-reportan-desaparecido-a-adolescente-que-no-regreso-a-casa-tras-salir-de-la-escuela\/\">Leer en espa\u00f1ol<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to police, Evek Adian Acosta was last seen just before 3:30 p.m. at Ruth Owens Kruse Educational Center, located at 11001 SW 76th St.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He is described by police as a white male, who is 5 feet, 9 inches tall and weighs about 120 pounds. He has black hair and brown eyes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He was last seen wearing a gray crewneck sweater with a black polo underneath, exposing the collar, black pants and black footwear.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Anyone with information about his whereabouts is asked to call Miami-Dade Schools Police Detective J. Otero at 786-494-1283 or Miami-Dade Crime Stoppers at 954-493-8477. Tips may also be emailed to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2026\/03\/13\/miami-dade-schools-police-teen-reported-missing-after-failing-to-return-home-from-school\/mailto:MDSPDGIU@Dadeschools.net\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MDSPDGIU@Dadeschools.net<\/a>. Tipsters may remain anonymous.<\/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=\"Amanda Batchelor\" 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\/83776d46-011c-4018-ab.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Amanda Batchelor<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Amanda Batchelor is the Digital Executive Producer for Local10.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0March 13, 2026 at 9:57 AM lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpandEvek Adian Acosta (Miami-Dade Schools Police) MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 Miami-Dade Schools&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190256,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-190255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190255","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=190255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}