{"id":349597,"date":"2026-07-23T07:29:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T07:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/349597\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T07:29:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T07:29:08","slug":"purple-alert-issued-for-18-year-old-reported-missing-out-of-tampa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/349597\/","title":{"rendered":"Purple Alert issued for 18-year-old reported missing out of Tampa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) \u2014 The Tampa Police Department initiated a Purple Alert Wednesday evening as officers continued searching for a missing 18-year-old. <\/p>\n<p>Jean Brooks was last seen Wednesday afternoon in the 1200 block of East Sligh Avenue, according to the police department. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"720\" width=\"1280\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Jean-Brooks-TPD-missing.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3357436\"  \/>Jean Brooks (Credit: Tampa Police Department)<\/p>\n<p>Authorities said Brooks never returned home after making statements to his family and loved ones that left them \u201cconcerned for his well-being.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Brooks was driving a white 2024 Dodge Durango with the Florida tag: XVC309. He is 5 feet, 8 inches tall and weighs around 120 pounds. <\/p>\n<p>Anyone who has information on Brooks\u2019 whereabouts is asked to call the Tampa Police Department immediately at 813-231-6130. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) \u2014 The Tampa Police Department initiated a Purple Alert Wednesday evening as officers continued searching&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":349598,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-349597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349597","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=349597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}