{"id":409018,"date":"2026-09-24T06:38:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T06:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/409018\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T06:38:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T06:38:11","slug":"palm-bay-man-arrested-at-universals-epic-universe-after-messages-to-14-year-old-undercover-deputy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/409018\/","title":{"rendered":"Palm Bay man arrested at Universal\u2019s Epic Universe after messages to \u201814-year-old\u2019 undercover deputy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEWS<\/p>\n<p>Published:\u00a0September 23, 2026 at 11:24 PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf hdgIwY yVqjv\">Orange County deputies arrested a Palm Bay Universal theme park employee they say tried to meet a 14-year-old for sex after contacting the \u201cteen\u201d online \u2014 but investigators say the child was actually an undercover deputy.<br \/>\nDeputies arrested 30-year-old Tyler Exline Tuesday at his place of employment, Universal\u2019s Epic Universe. He now faces two counts of solicitation of a minor, according to an arrest affidavit. He faces another count of unlawful use of a two-way communication device, also a third-degree felony.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEWS Published:\u00a0September 23, 2026 at 11:24 PM Orange County deputies arrested a Palm Bay Universal theme park employee&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":409019,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[139,141,140,162436],"class_list":["post-409018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-palm-bay-man-arrested-at-universals-epic-universe-after-messages-to-14-year-old-undercover-deputy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409018","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=409018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}