{"id":243098,"date":"2026-04-23T11:12:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T11:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/243098\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T11:12:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T11:12:10","slug":"florida-missing-child-alert-issued-for-13-year-old-last-seen-in-fort-white-wsvn-7news-miami-news-weather-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/243098\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Missing Child Alert issued for 13-year-old last seen in Fort White &#8211; WSVN 7News | Miami News, Weather, Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FORT WHITE, Fla. (WSVN) \u2014 The Florida Department of Law Enforcement has issued a Missing Child Alert for a teen.<\/p>\n<p>According to the FDLE, 13-year-old Jillian Melton was last seen in the area of the 700 block of Southwest Scout Glen in Fort White outside of Gainesville.<\/p>\n<p>Melton was last seen wearing a red and black plaid long sleeve shirt, tan shorts and black and white sneakers.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities believe Melton may be in the company of a white female and a Black male. They may be traveling with two bicycles.<\/p>\n<p>If you have any information concerning Melton\u2019s whereabouts, please contact FDLE or the Columbia County Sheriff\u2019s Office at 386-719-2005 or 911<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 Sunbeam Television Corp. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p>\tJoin our Newsletter for the latest news right to your inbox<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT WHITE, Fla. (WSVN) \u2014 The Florida Department of Law Enforcement has issued a Missing Child Alert for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243099,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-243098","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\/243098","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=243098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}