{"id":200616,"date":"2026-03-21T17:41:29","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T17:41:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/200616\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T17:41:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T17:41:29","slug":"kidnapped-child-found-safe-after-florida-fugitive-caught-in-elizabeth-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/200616\/","title":{"rendered":"Kidnapped child found safe after Florida fugitive caught in Elizabeth City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">ELIZABETH CITY, N.C. (WITN) &#8211; Elizabeth City police say a Florida fugitive who kidnapped a child has been captured.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Delon Lee was charged today with interference with custody and a fugitive warrant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Police say they were called to a report of a wanted fugitive near 1300 Walker Avenue around 1:20 p.m. Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">A three-year-old child was found safe and is in the process of going back to their family, according to officers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The 26-year-old Lee was taken to Albemarle District Jail without bond.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Anyone with information on this case is asked to call the Elizabeth City Police Department at 252-335-4321.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 WITN. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ELIZABETH CITY, N.C. (WITN) &#8211; Elizabeth City police say a Florida fugitive who kidnapped a child has been&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":200617,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[92696,92407,92694,28,92697,30,29,3153,92695,68850,6008,4481,1854,4480],"class_list":["post-200616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-delon-lee","tag-elizabeth-city","tag-elizabeth-city-police-department","tag-florida","tag-florida-fugitive","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-fugitive","tag-kidnap","tag-kidnapped","tag-kidnapping","tag-nc","tag-north-carolina","tag-witn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200616","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=200616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}