The human remains that were found in Jacksonville on the corner of Yopp Road and U.S. 17 on Oct. 3 have been identified as a Jacksonville man who was reported missing by the Onslow County Sheriff\u2019s Office on Sept. 9.<\/p>\n
On Oct. 3, at around 9 a.m., authorities responded to the vacant lot located near 258 Wilmington Hwy., following a report of skeletal remains being found while a Jacksonville resident was mowing the grass. When authorities investigated the sparse wooded area nearby, they located a human skeleton.<\/p>\n
According to Capt. Mark Ketchum, with the Jacksonville Police Department, on Friday, after an autopsy was performed on the remains, the N.C. Office of the Chief Medical Examiner identified the deceased as 30-year-old Tyler Lee Ragon.<\/p>\n
Ragon was reported missing early in September, and the investigation into his disappearance revealed he was last seen alive in the early morning on Aug. 4 at the Walmart on Yopp Road. Investigators are continuing to analyze the events surrounding his death.<\/p>\n
Ragon had numerous criminal conviction records across Onslow, Hoke and New Hanover counties, in which he pleaded guilty to charges of resisting a public officer, larceny, breaking and entering, second-degree trespassing, possession of drug paraphernalia, possession of a firearm by a felon and simple assault, among other charges.<\/p>\n
In his Jones Funeral Home obituary, Ragon is described as a beloved son, brother, grandson, nephew, cousin and friend with a big heart, who loved the beach, an outgoing personality and love for his friends and family. It was also said that his life brought laughter, love and joy to those around him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The human remains that were found in Jacksonville on the corner of Yopp Road and U.S. 17 on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":428280,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117,634],"class_list":["post-428279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428279","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=428279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}