{"id":242482,"date":"2026-04-22T22:52:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T22:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/242482\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T22:52:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T22:52:18","slug":"jacksonville-man-accused-of-kidnapping-after-burglarizing-home-taking-child-into-wooded-area-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/242482\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacksonville man accused of kidnapping after burglarizing home, taking child into wooded area, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">JACKSONVILLE, Texas (KTRE) &#8211; A Jacksonville man is behind bars after police say he broke into a home Wednesday and kidnapped a child in the 800 block of Myrtle Drive in Jacksonville.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Brian Damon Beck, 41, was held Wednesday at the Cherokee County Jail on unknown bonds for charges of burglary of a habiation, kidnapping and evading arrest or detention.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Jacksonville police responded around 1:01 p.m. to the 800 block of Myrtle Drive after a caller reported seeing Black carrying a child into a nearby wooded area, according to a press release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Police immediately began searching the area, where they found the child unharmed and returned them to their mother, according to a press release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Officers continued searching for Black, who was found in a wooded area in the 1000 block of Skyline before he attempted to flee, according to a press release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">He was arrested after a brief pursuit, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KTRE. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Texas (KTRE) &#8211; A Jacksonville man is behind bars after police say he broke into a home&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242483,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[692,107063,5678,265,116,118,117,6008],"class_list":["post-242482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-arrest","tag-brian-damon-black","tag-cherokee-county","tag-crime","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-kidnapping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242482","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=242482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}