{"id":423847,"date":"2026-10-10T01:30:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T01:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/423847\/"},"modified":"2026-10-10T01:30:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T01:30:07","slug":"police-identify-human-remains-found-near-u-s-17-in-jacksonville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/423847\/","title":{"rendered":"Police identify human remains found near U.S. 17 in Jacksonville"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">The above video is our WITN+ livestream and may not reflect the content in this story.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">JACKSONVILLE, N.C. (WITN) &#8211; Police say human remains found this past weekend belonged to a man reported missing last month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Officers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.witn.com\/2026\/10\/03\/police-human-skeleton-found-near-us-17-jacksonville\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.witn.com\/2026\/10\/03\/police-human-skeleton-found-near-us-17-jacksonville\/\">responded to a wooded area<\/a> near the corner of Yopp Road and U.S. 17 around 9 a.m. Saturday after a person mowing grass found what appeared to be a skeleton.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Investigators determined it belonged to Tyler Ragon, who was reported missing to the Onslow County Sheriff\u2019s Office on September 9. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Officials say the 30-year-old was last known to be alive on August 4.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Investigators are still looking into the events surrounding his death. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Anyone with any information is asked to contact Detective R. Feller at (910) 938-6410 or rfeller@jacksonvillenc.gov.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WITN. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The above video is our WITN+ livestream and may not reflect the content in this story. JACKSONVILLE, N.C.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":423848,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[18665,6893,62594,116,118,117,2454,12343,132,16480],"class_list":["post-423847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-human","tag-human-remains","tag-identified","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-missing-person","tag-onslow-county","tag-police","tag-skeleton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423847","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=423847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}