{"id":424323,"date":"2026-10-10T17:22:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T17:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/424323\/"},"modified":"2026-10-10T17:22:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T17:22:15","slug":"employee-arrested-at-universal-theme-park-in-orlando","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/424323\/","title":{"rendered":"Employee Arrested at Universal Theme Park in Orlando"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An employee was arrested at the new Universal theme park in Orlando.<\/p>\n<p>Orange County Sheriff\u2019s Office deputies arrested 30-year-old Tyler Exline at the new Universal Epic Universe theme park in Orlando.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/TylerExline-1.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-294706 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/TylerExline-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"672\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to local law enforcement, he tried to meet a 14-year-old for sex but the child was an undercover deputy.<\/p>\n<p>The Universal employee, who was reportedly a team leader, faced two counts of solicitation of a minor and a count of unlawful use of a two-way communication device.<\/p>\n<p>According to reports, the Palm Bay man used an online hookup site and Snapchat to communicate with the undercover deputy who was acting as a teen. Reportedly, local law enforcement used facial recognition and photos that included a name badge from Universal, but the Orange County Sheriff\u2019s Office did not provide full investigative details.<\/p>\n<p>Universal Orlando Resort has stated that the employee who was arrested is no longer with the company, according to reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An employee was arrested at the new Universal theme park in Orlando. Orange County Sheriff\u2019s Office deputies arrested&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":424324,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[286,9750,6113,1335,11869,139,141,140,12058,167153,1794,3434,2749],"class_list":["post-424323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-arrested","tag-employee","tag-epic-universe","tag-orange-county","tag-orange-county-sheriffs-office","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-theme-park","tag-tyler-exline","tag-universal-epic-universe","tag-universal-orlando","tag-universal-orlando-resort"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424323","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=424323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}