{"id":340991,"date":"2026-07-15T15:20:48","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T15:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/340991\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T15:20:48","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T15:20:48","slug":"purple-alert-issued-for-missing-tampa-woman-believed-to-be-experiencing-postpartum-depression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/340991\/","title":{"rendered":"Purple Alert issued for missing Tampa woman believed to be experiencing postpartum depression"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A Purple Alert has been issued for a missing Tampa woman believed to be suffering from postpartum depression.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Tampa police say Amber Rose Rhoads, 27, is believed to be suicidal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Amber was last seen at about 1 a.m. on Wednesday, July 15, leaving her home on Bourbon Court in the Forest Hills neighborhood.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police say she is driving a gold 2020 Kia Sportage with a Florida tag of LBCP18.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who locates Amber is asked to call the Tampa Police Department at 813-231-6130 and refer to case number 2026-416360.<\/p>\n<p>What is a Purple Alert in Florida?<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A <a data-ylk=\"slk:Purple Alert;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fdle.state.fl.us\/PurpleAlerts\/Frequently-Asked-Questions\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Purple Alert<\/a> is issued when an adult over the age of 18 with mental, cognitive, intellectual or developmental disabilities goes missing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It&#8217;s different than a <a data-ylk=\"slk:Silver Alert;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fdle.state.fl.us\/AMBER-Plan\/Silver-Alert\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Silver Alert<\/a>, which is used to locate missing people 60 years and up who are suffering from irreversible deterioration of intellectual faculties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Purple Alert has been issued for a missing Tampa woman believed to be suffering from postpartum depression.\u00a0&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":340992,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[140101,39626,23783,135,137,136,3793],"class_list":["post-340991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-postpartum-depression","tag-purple-alert","tag-silver-alert","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-tampa-police-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340991","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=340991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}