{"id":367650,"date":"2026-08-10T18:04:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T18:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/367650\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T18:04:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T18:04:10","slug":"statue-honoring-boy-who-died-from-rare-cancer-stolen-in-miami-lakes-nbc-6-south-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/367650\/","title":{"rendered":"Statue honoring boy who died from rare cancer stolen in Miami Lakes \u2013 NBC 6 South Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A statue honoring a young boy who died from a rare cancer was reported stolen over the weekend in Miami Lakes.<\/p>\n<p>The Jakey Duque statue was stolen from the park that bears his name near Northwest 154th Street and Northwest 89th Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>Jakey died from a rare cancer in 2020, just a month after his fifth birthday.<\/p>\n<p>His parents documented his journey on social media and many people online, dubbed &#8220;Jakey&#8217;s Army,&#8221; supported the boy through his health struggles.<\/p>\n<p>The sculpture was unveiled in 2021 in support of the family.<\/p>\n<p>OnlyinDade is offering $10,000 for any information leading to the statue&#8217;s recovery.<\/p>\n<p>Jakey&#8217;s parents said they just want the statue back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A statue honoring a young boy who died from a rare cancer was reported stolen over the weekend&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":367651,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,30073,124],"class_list":["post-367650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-lakes","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367650","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=367650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}