{"id":242604,"date":"2026-04-23T00:50:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T00:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/242604\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T00:50:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T00:50:16","slug":"kidnapped-child-found-safe-in-jacksonville-woods-reunited-with-mother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/242604\/","title":{"rendered":"Kidnapped child found safe in Jacksonville woods, reunited with mother"},"content":{"rendered":"

JACKSONVILLE, Texas (KETK<\/a>) \u2014 An infant was safely reunited with their mother after being briefly kidnapped, with law enforcement locating the toddler in a wooded area in Jacksonville.<\/p>\n

\"<em>Picture<\/p>\n

Picture of Brian Damon Black, courtesy of the Jacksonville Police Department. <\/p>\n

The Jacksonville Police Department responded to a welfare check on Wednesday at around 1 p.m. in the 800 block of Myrtle Drive. There, they discovered that a man had entered a residence and took a 1-year-old child before leaving.<\/p>\n

The man was later identified as 42-year-old Brian Damon Black of Jacksonville.<\/p>\n

The initial caller was concerned that Black was seen walking into a nearby wooded area with a child. Officers began searching the area and at around 2:52 p.m., the child was located unharmed and reunited with the mother.<\/p>\n

Black was then found in the 1000 block of Skyline in a wooded area. When police approached Black, he reportedly fled but was arrested after a brief pursuit.<\/p>\n

Black has since been charged with burglary of a habitation, kidnapping and evading arrest or detention.<\/p>\n

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For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KETK.com | FOX51.com. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Texas (KETK) \u2014 An infant was safely reunited with their mother after being briefly kidnapped, with law…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242605,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[107063,116,118,117,22120,5537,71443],"class_list":["post-242604","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-ketk","tag-texas","tag-wooded-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242604","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=242604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}