{"id":268455,"date":"2026-05-12T20:10:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T20:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/268455\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T20:10:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T20:10:07","slug":"boomer-the-k-9-leads-florida-deputies-to-missing-96-year-old-in-woods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/268455\/","title":{"rendered":"Boomer the K-9 leads Florida deputies to missing 96-year-old in woods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LUTZ, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 A 96-year-old man was safely found after going missing, all thanks to the efforts of Florida deputies and their remarkable K-9, Boomer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cbs12.com\/topic\/Hillsborough%20County%20Sheriff\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Hillsborough County Sheriff&#8217;s Office<\/a> said that on May 9, Ray Cornett was reported missing from his home in the 18000 block of 4th Street Southeast in Lutz.<\/p>\n<p>Multiple specialty units sprang into action searching the area, but it was Boomer who led the deputies into a wooded area just a short distance from Cornett\u2019s home.<\/p>\n<p>See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/cbs12.com\/news\/florida\/3-girls-pulled-from-dangerous-rip-current-after-florida-deputys-split-second-rescue-florida-news-lovers-key-state-park-emergency-calls-dangerous-rip-current-dramatic-rescue-lee-county-sheriffs-office-video\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">3 girls pulled from dangerous rip current after Florida deputy\u2019s split-second rescue<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>A video shared by the Sheriff&#8217;s Office shows the moment Boomer found Ray Cornett safe and unharmed, hidden among the trees. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUTZ, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 A 96-year-old man was safely found after going missing, all thanks to the efforts&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":268456,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-268455","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\/268455","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=268455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}