{"id":245091,"date":"2026-04-24T18:04:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T18:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/245091\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T18:04:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T18:04:10","slug":"florida-authorities-looking-for-2-usf-doctoral-students-take-person-into-custody-wral-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/245091\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida authorities looking for 2 USF doctoral students take person into custody :: WRAL.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TAMPA, Fla. (AP) \u2014 A person was taken into custody Friday as part of the investigation into the disappearance of two Bangladeshi doctoral students at the University of South Florida, a sheriff\u2019s office said.<\/p>\n<p>The Hillsborough County Sheriff&#8217;s Office in Tampa said officers responded to a \u201cbarricaded subject connected to the missing USF students,\u201d in a neighborhood about 1 mile (1.6 kilometers) from the campus.<\/p>\n<p>No more information \u2014 such as the couple&#8217;s whereabouts, and how the person taken into custody might be connected to them \u2014 was immediately released. It was not immediately clear what charges, if any, the person faces.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe situation has been resolved,\u201d the sheriff&#8217;s office said.<\/p>\n<p>Zamil Limon and Nahida Bristy were last seen on April 16 at the campus in Tampa, Florida, according to a statement from the University of South Florida Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>Limon, who was studying geography, environmental science and policy, was last seen at his home in a student apartment complex. Bristy, who was studying chemical engineering, was last seen an hour later at a campus science building.<\/p>\n<p>A family friend contacted authorities last Friday after being unable to contact either one, USF police said. Friends and family described their lack of communication as out of character.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. (AP) \u2014 A person was taken into custody Friday as part of the investigation into the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245092,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[36166,25124,2205,28,30,29],"class_list":{"0":"post-245091","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida","8":"tag-ap-education","9":"tag-ap-u-s-news","10":"tag-associated-press","11":"tag-florida","12":"tag-florida-headlines","13":"tag-florida-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245091","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=245091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}