{"id":226382,"date":"2026-04-10T14:44:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T14:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/226382\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T14:44:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T14:44:15","slug":"missing-florida-teen-whos-attracted-to-train-tracks-and-wooded-areas-sparks-statewide-alert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/226382\/","title":{"rendered":"Missing Florida teen who\u2019s attracted to train tracks and wooded areas sparks statewide alert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/naomi-cernik-resized.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">MIDDLEBURG, Fla. &#8211; A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Florida<\/a> Missing Child Alert has been issued for a 16-year-old girl who was last seen on April 7, 2026.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">Law enforcement officers are searching for Naomi Cernik.<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">She was last seen in the 3200th block of Grand Teton Drive in Middleburg.<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">Cernik is 5\u20192&#8243; tall, weighs 95 pounds and has blonde hair and brown eyes.<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">She was wearing a black hoodie with a multicolored print on the front and back, a white shirt, jeans, pink shoes, and may be carrying a black satchel backpack.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\">Dig deeper:<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">Officials said Cernik may be attracted to train tracks and wooded areas.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\">What you can do:<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">Anyone with information on her whereabouts is asked to contact the Clay County Sheriff&#8217;s Office at 904-264-6512 or 911.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: This article was written with information provided by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and the Clay County Sheriff&#8217;s Office.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Florida<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\/missing-persons\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Missing Persons<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article MIDDLEBURG, Fla. &#8211; A Florida Missing Child Alert has been issued for a 16-year-old girl who was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":226383,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[630,47,28,30,29,6888,115,628],"class_list":["post-226382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-fl","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-missing-persons","tag-news","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226382","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=226382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}