{"id":428945,"date":"2026-10-15T22:54:24","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T22:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/428945\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T22:54:24","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T22:54:24","slug":"purple-alert-issued-for-tallahassee-man-last-seen-over-three-days-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/428945\/","title":{"rendered":"Purple Alert issued for Tallahassee man last seen over three days ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LEON COUNTY, FL (WTXL) \u2014 The Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) has issued a Purple Alert for a Tallahassee man who has been missing since Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Travis Chester, 45, was last seen near the 1000th block of Nature Trail Way on Oct. 12.<\/p>\n<p>FDLE said Chester was wearing a light colored red or yellow dress shirt and blue jeans.  He is 6 feet 3 inches tall and 215 pounds. FDLE said he may have dreadlocks on the side of his head. He may be in a 2024 Dodge Ram 1500, FL tag number 80VCCK.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is urged to contact the Leon County Sheriff&#8217;s Office at 850-606-3300 or 911.<\/p>\n<p>Want to see more local news? Visit the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wtxl.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WTXL ABC 27 Website. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Stay in touch with us anywhere, anytime.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/WTXLABC27\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Like us on Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow us on<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/wtxlabc27\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Instagram <\/a>and <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/abc27\" rel=\"nofollow\">X.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LEON COUNTY, FL (WTXL) \u2014 The Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) has issued a Purple Alert for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":428946,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[242,509,1289,2391,3428,39626,232,234,233,562],"class_list":["post-428945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-abc-27","tag-big-bend","tag-leon-county","tag-man","tag-missing","tag-purple-alert","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news","tag-wtxl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428945","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=428945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}