{"id":229252,"date":"2026-04-13T03:15:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T03:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/229252\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T03:15:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T03:15:08","slug":"detectives-search-for-suspect-in-attempted-kidnapping-of-11-year-old-in-oakland-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/229252\/","title":{"rendered":"Detectives search for suspect in attempted kidnapping of 11-year-old in Oakland Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0April 12, 2026 at 10:50 PM<\/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\/04\/TN4PAHIPV75NHA5DKULABFKEDA.jpg\"  width=\"542\" height=\"304\"\/>Broward Sheriff&#8217;s Office cruiser (WPLG) <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">OAKLAND PARK, Fla. \u2014 Detectives with the Broward Sheriff\u2019s Office Special Victims Unit are asking for the public\u2019s help to identify and locate a man who attempted to kidnap an 11-year-old boy Sunday evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to investigators, the incident happened around 5:12 p.m. near the 4100 block of Northwest 21st Avenue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The victim told investigators a man dressed in all black placed his hand over the boy\u2019s mouth and grabbed him. The man then walked with the child, but the boy was able to escape.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Detectives said the suspect was last seen riding a purple bike.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Anyone with information is asked to contact Special Victims Unit Detective Eric Wilson at 954-321-4460 or submit a tip through the SaferWatch app. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Anonymous tips can be submitted to Broward Crime Stoppers at 954-493-TIPS (8477) for a possible cash reward.<\/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=\"Pablo Hernandez\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/https:\/\/author-service-images-prod-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/96ffb9dd-5e0a-4be5-8ede-.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Pablo Hernandez <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Pablo Hernandez is a Digital Journalist at WPLG. He was born in Cuba and has lived in Miami, Florida since 2002.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0April 12, 2026 at 10:50 PM lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpandBroward Sheriff&#8217;s Office cruiser (WPLG) OAKLAND PARK, Fla. \u2014 Detectives with the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229253,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[64042,249,251,250,4243],"class_list":["post-229252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-bso","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news","tag-tamarac"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229252","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=229252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}