{"id":354244,"date":"2026-07-27T22:29:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T22:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/354244\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T22:29:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T22:29:10","slug":"amber-alert-issued-for-missing-florida-teen-believed-to-be-traveling-south-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/354244\/","title":{"rendered":"Amber Alert issued for missing Florida teen believed to be traveling south"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OCALA, Fla. (CBS12)  \u2014 An Amber Alert was issued Monday for a 13-year-old Marion County girl who may be traveling south, according to the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fdle.state.fl.us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Florida Department of Law Enforcement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.marionso.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Marion County Sheriff&#8217;s Office<\/a>, Juliet Arioso was abducted from her home between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. Monday in the Shady Road Villas community in Ocala.<\/p>\n<p>The sheriff&#8217;s office said the suspect was identified as Jason Castillo, who deputies believe is driving a 2021 Hyundai Santa Fe with Florida license plate 77ERLW.<\/p>\n<p>FDLE said Arioso was last seen near Southwest 27th Avenue in Ocala. She is described as having brown hair and brown eyes, standing 5 feet 3 inches tall and weighing about 90 pounds.<\/p>\n<p>See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/cbs12.com\/news\/local\/off-duty-riviera-beach-police-officer-accused-of-wrong-way-dui-in-loxahatchee-palm-beach-county-sheriffs-office-seminole-pratt-whitney-road-okeechobee-boulevard-loxahatchee-reckless-driver-driving-under-the-influence-dui-investigation-wrong-way\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Off-duty Riviera Beach police officer accused of wrong-way DUI in Loxahatchee<\/a><\/p>\n<p>FDLE said Castillo, 45, has brown hair and green eyes, stands 5 feet 10 inches tall and weighs about 190 pounds.<\/p>\n<p>FDLE advises anyone who sees Arioso or Castillo not to approach them and to contact law enforcement immediately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OCALA, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 An Amber Alert was issued Monday for a 13-year-old Marion County girl who may&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":354231,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-354244","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\/354244","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=354244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}