{"id":370433,"date":"2026-08-13T15:10:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T15:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/370433\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T15:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T15:10:08","slug":"statue-honoring-5-year-old-who-lost-cancer-battle-recovered-after-being-stolen-from-miami-lakes-park-wsvn-7news-miami-news-weather-sports-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/370433\/","title":{"rendered":"Statue honoring 5-year-old who lost cancer battle recovered after being stolen from Miami Lakes park &#8211; WSVN 7News | Miami News, Weather, Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">MIAMI LAKES, FLA. (WSVN) &#8211; After days of searching, the statue honoring a South Florida boy who lost his cancer battle has been found.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The parents of Jakey Duque shared the update on Instagram, Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of the pictures posted online shows the child\u2019s mother, Karen Duque, holding the statue that went missing Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jakey inspired thousands of people, who became known as Jakey\u2019s Army, during his courageous battle with a rare and aggressive form of brain cancer. He died in June of 2020 at 5 years old.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The statue was <a href=\"https:\/\/wsvn.com\/news\/local\/miami-dade\/statue-honoring-5-year-old-boy-who-lost-fight-with-cancer-stolen-from-miami-lakes-park\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">taken from a memorial<\/a> at Jakey Duque Park on Northwest 154th Street and 89th Avenue in Miami Lakes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As of Thursday morning, it remains unclear whether or not anyone was arrested.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 Sunbeam Television Corp. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p>\tJoin our Newsletter for the latest news right to your inbox<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIAMI LAKES, FLA. (WSVN) &#8211; After days of searching, the statue honoring a South Florida boy who lost&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":370317,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226],"class_list":["post-370433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hialeah","tag-hialeah","tag-hialeah-headlines","tag-hialeah-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370433","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=370433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}