{"id":295321,"date":"2026-06-04T03:03:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T03:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/295321\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T03:03:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T03:03:08","slug":"florida-missing-child-alert-issued-for-16-year-old-out-of-pasco-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/295321\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Missing Child Alert issued for 16-year-old out of Pasco County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;If located, DO NOT APPROACH. Contact law enforcement immediately,&#8221; FDLE wrote. <\/p>\n<p>NEW PORT RICHEY, Fla. \u2014 A Florida Missing Child Alert has been issued Wednesday for a 16-year-old boy last seen in New Port Richey.<\/p>\n<p>Giovanni Young was last seen in the area of Headsail Drive while wearing a black t-shirt with the words &#8220;Lost Paradise&#8221; with a golden angel and blue flames, according to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE). He was also last seen wearing brown Nike sweatpants and is described to be 5-foot-2 with black hair and brown eyes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Giovanni reportedly has a sleeve tattoo on his right arm that says, &#8220;Money bags, get rich or die.&#8221; Florida officials say he may be traveling in the Hudson area.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If located, DO NOT APPROACH. Contact law enforcement immediately,&#8221; FDLE wrote.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Authorities are asking anyone with more information on his whereabouts to contact FDLE at 1-888-356-4774 or the Pasco Sheriff&#8217;s Office at 727-847-8102 or 911.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;If located, DO NOT APPROACH. Contact law enforcement immediately,&#8221; FDLE wrote. NEW PORT RICHEY, Fla. \u2014 A Florida&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295322,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-295321","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\/295321","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=295321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}