{"id":247302,"date":"2026-04-26T14:16:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T14:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/247302\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T14:16:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T14:16:06","slug":"fort-lauderdale-area-15-year-old-girl-missing-for-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/247302\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Lauderdale area 15-year-old girl missing for days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Coral Springs teenaged girl has been missing since Tuesday, and the public\u2019s being asked to help find her.<\/p>\n<p>The National Center for Missing &amp; Exploited Children said Skylee Merino, 15, might be in Tamarac, but hasn\u2019t been seen or heard from since Tuesday. Skylee has brown eyes, black hair, standing about 5-foot-4 and weighs about 120 pounds.<\/p>\n<p>                                          <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Skylee Merin_fitted.jpeg\"   width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" title=\"Skylee Merin_fitted.jpeg\" alt=\"Skylee Merino.\"\/>                                                                                    Skylee Merino.                                                                                                                                                                        National Center for Missing &amp; Exploited Children                                                                                        <\/p>\n<p>If you know where Skylee has been, where she is now or where she might be planning to go in the future, call the NCMEC, 1-800-THE-LOST, or Coral Springs police, 954-344-1800.<\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/profile\/218644265\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1777212966_40_695 Miami Herald sig 072115 Cropped.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" alt=\"Profile Image of David J. Neal\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                <a class=\"author-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/profile\/218644265\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">David J. Neal<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    Miami Herald<\/p>\n<p>            Since 1989, David J. Neal\u2019s domain at the Miami Herald has expanded to include writing about Panthers (NHL and FIU), Dolphins, old school animation, food safety, fraud, naughty lawyers, bad doctors and all manner of breaking news. He drinks coladas whole. He does not work Indianapolis 500 Race Day.\n            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Coral Springs teenaged girl has been missing since Tuesday, and the public\u2019s being asked to help find&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247303,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":{"0":"post-247302","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-lauderdale","8":"tag-fort-lauderdale","9":"tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","10":"tag-fort-lauderdale-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247302","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=247302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}