{"id":51440,"date":"2025-11-18T17:32:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T17:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/51440\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T17:32:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T17:32:14","slug":"body-of-missing-5-year-old-found-in-port-st-lucie-lake-police-confirm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/51440\/","title":{"rendered":"Body of missing 5-year-old found in Port St. Lucie lake, police confirm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">The body of a missing Port St. Lucie child was found in a neighborhood lake Monday night, police confirm. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Police responded to the 5200 block of Northwest Wisk Fern Circle at around 4:30 p.m. after getting reports of a 5-year-old missing, identified as Neymir Luka Valere. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Valere was nonverbal and on the autism spectrum. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">WATCH BELOW: Missing boy&#8217;s body found in lake<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Units, including road patrol, K9, drone pilots, the Marine Unit and Air Unit from the St. Lucie County Sheriff&#8217;s Office, canvassed the area for hours to find Neymir, who was ultimately located in a lake at around 11:30 p.m. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Police say foul play is not suspected, and the investigation is ongoing. <\/p>\n<p>Project Livesaver<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Last month, WPTV reported that the city&#8217;s <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wptv.com\/news\/treasure-coast\/region-st-lucie-county\/port-st-lucie\/port-st-lucie-tracking-program-for-vulnerable-residents-to-remain-free-thanks-to-new-funding\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Project Lifesaver safety program<\/a>, which helps track individuals prone to wandering, will continue operating after receiving new funding.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Project Lifesaver provides tracking devices to individuals who may be at risk of eloping, like those with autism, Alzheimer&#8217;s disease or dementia. The devices allow law enforcement locate missing persons using specialized transmitters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 Scripps Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The body of a missing Port St. Lucie child was found in a neighborhood lake Monday night, police&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51441,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[4535,32525,32524,32523,171,173,172],"class_list":{"0":"post-51440","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-port-st-lucie","8":"tag-california","9":"tag-family-swept-into-ocean","10":"tag-girl-swept-into-ocean","11":"tag-missing-girl","12":"tag-port-st-lucie","13":"tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","14":"tag-port-st-lucie-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51440","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=51440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}