{"id":240212,"date":"2026-04-21T11:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T11:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/240212\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T11:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T11:34:08","slug":"homestead-teen-missing-for-more-than-a-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/240212\/","title":{"rendered":"Homestead teen missing for more than a month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0April 21, 2026 at 6:57 AM<\/p>\n<p>Homestead police are seeking the public\u2019s help in locating a 14-year-old girl who was reported missing over a month ago. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">HOMESTEAD, Fla.  \u2014 Homestead police are seeking the public\u2019s help in locating a 14-year-old girl who was reported missing over a month ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to police, Yarilis Mendez-Carrillo was reported missing March 11 by her grandmother and was last seen in the 300 block of Southwest 12th Avenue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police said Mendez-Carrillo does not have a cellphone and has not been in contact with anyone since she was reported missing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Mendez-Carrillo is described by police as a Hispanic female, who is 4 feet, 7 inches tall and weighs about 130 pounds. She has black hair and brown eyes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police said she has a large circular scar on her upper right thigh.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Mendez-Carrillo was last seen wearing a white T-shirt and blue shorts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A Missing Child Alert has been issued by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement as the search for the teen continues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Anyone with information about her whereabouts is asked to call the Homestead Police Department at 305-247-1535 or Miami-Dade Crime Stoppers at 305-471-8477.<\/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\/04\/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:\u00a0April 21, 2026 at 6:57 AM Homestead police are seeking the public\u2019s help in locating a 14-year-old girl&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240213,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-240212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240212","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=240212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}