{"id":242581,"date":"2026-04-23T00:26:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T00:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/242581\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T00:26:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T00:26:23","slug":"jacksonville-man-kidnapped-1-year-old-child-fled-from-officers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/242581\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacksonville man kidnapped 1-year-old child, fled from officers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Jacksonville Police arrested a man accused of kidnapping a baby from a residence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to Jacksonville PD, officers responded to a welfare concern on Myrtle Drive on Wednesday at 1:01 p.m. During the investigation, officers determined Brian Damon Black, 42, unlawfully entered a residence and took a one-year-old child before fleeing the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A caller told police Black carried the child into a nearby wooded area. Officers immediately began searching the area. At 2:52 p.m., the child was found unharmed and safely reunited with the mother. Officers continued searching for Black, and subsequently located him in a wooded area in the 1000 lock of Skyline.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Upon contact, Black reportedly attempted to flee from police, but was apprehended after a brief chase.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Black is charged with burglary of a habitation, kidnapping, evading arrest and detention. An investigation remains ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jacksonville Police arrested a man accused of kidnapping a baby from a residence. According to Jacksonville PD, officers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242582,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[107063,116,118,117,71443],"class_list":["post-242581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-brian-damon-black","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-wooded-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242581","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=242581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}