{"id":244983,"date":"2026-04-24T16:51:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T16:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/244983\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T16:51:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T16:51:07","slug":"person-in-custody-in-search-for-missing-university-of-south-florida-doctoral-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/244983\/","title":{"rendered":"Person in custody in search for missing University of South Florida doctoral students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A person is in custody in connection to two missing University of South Florida doctoral students, the Hillsborough County Sheriff&#8217;s Office said Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The person, who is not one of the students, was barricaded at a home near USF&#8217;s Tampa campus, the sheriff&#8217;s office said. Officials would not say whether the person in custody is considered a suspect, only that they are connected to the disappearance.<\/p>\n<p>Zamil Limon and Nahida Bristy, both 27, were last seen in the Tampa area on April 16, the University of South Florida Police Department said.<\/p>\n<p>This is a breaking news story. It will be updated.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p>\n                Go deeper with The Free Press\n              <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A person is in custody in connection to two missing University of South Florida doctoral students, the Hillsborough&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":244984,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-244983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244983","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=244983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}