{"id":410610,"date":"2026-09-25T19:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T19:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/410610\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T19:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T19:38:08","slug":"bladen-county-detectives-help-capture-wanted-florida-fugitive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/410610\/","title":{"rendered":"Bladen County detectives help capture wanted Florida fugitive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">BLADEN COUNTY, N.C. (WECT) &#8211; Deputies in Bladen and Cumberland counties have arrested a Florida fugitive accused of sexually assaulting a child under 12.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to the Bladen County Sheriff\u2019s Office (BCSO), detectives from Okeechobee, Florida, requested help in locating Phillip Michael Walls on Sept. 23 in connection with a sexual assault case.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">BCSO said Walls had known ties to Bladen and Cumberland counties.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Walls was arrested on Sept. 24 at his job after a joint effort by the BCSO Criminal Investigations Division and the Cumberland County Sheriff\u2019s Office Fugitive Task Force Team. He has been charged with the following:<\/p>\n<p>Sexual Battery on a child under 12 years oldLewd or Lascivious Battery<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Walls is being held on no bond at the Bladen County Detention Center, awaiting extradition to Florida.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WECT. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BLADEN COUNTY, N.C. (WECT) &#8211; Deputies in Bladen and Cumberland counties have arrested a Florida fugitive accused of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":410611,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4864,162890,162893,162891,28,92697,30,29,3153,266,4481,115,1854,1277,162892,159094,162894,162889],"class_list":["post-410610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-arrests","tag-bladen-county","tag-bladen-county-sheriffs-office","tag-cumberland-county","tag-florida","tag-florida-fugitive","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-fugitive","tag-local-news","tag-nc","tag-news","tag-north-carolina","tag-okeechobee","tag-phillip-michael-walls","tag-sexual-assault-arrest","tag-wanted-fugitive","tag-wect"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410610","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=410610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/410611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}