{"id":365440,"date":"2026-08-07T17:01:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T17:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/365440\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T17:01:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T17:01:15","slug":"search-underway-for-missing-5-year-old-boy-with-autism-in-hillsborough-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/365440\/","title":{"rendered":"Search underway for missing 5-year-old boy with autism in Hillsborough County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/missing.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"764\" height=\"432\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-v-653d32e2=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, Fla. &#8211; A search is underway after a 5-year-old boy with autism went missing early Friday morning in Hillsborough County, according to the sheriff&#8217;s office.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>   Cypress Mulch Circle search <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Deputies are searching the area near Cypress Mulch Circle and Northgreen Avenue for the missing child. The boy, who is non-verbal, went missing around 5 a.m. Friday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The sheriff&#8217;s office described the boy as white, 3-foot-11, with brown hair. He was last seen wearing a beige Spider-Man shirt, a diaper and no pants. He may have a broken electronic device with him.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> Hillsborough Sheriff details <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Officials have not yet confirmed the direction the boy may have traveled or how he left the home. Investigators have not indicated if someone may be with him.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Anyone with information should call 911 or contact the Hillsborough County Sheriff&#8217;s Office non-emergency line at (813) 247-8200.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: The information in this story was gathered from the Hillsborough County Sheriff&#8217;s Office, who released the details of the missing child search.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/hillsborough\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hillsborough County<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, Fla. &#8211; A search is underway after a 5-year-old boy with autism went missing early&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":365441,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[47,629,115,135,137,136,628],"class_list":["post-365440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-fl","tag-hillsborough","tag-news","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365440","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=365440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/365441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}