PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 A missing non-verbal 5-year-old boy’s body was tragically found in a lake in Port St. Lucie late Monday night. <\/p>\n
The Port St. Lucie Police Department (PSLPD) reported that officers responded to a home on Northwest Wisk Fern Circle around 8:08 p.m. regarding the disappearance of Neymir Luka Valere, who is on the autism spectrum. <\/p>\n
Police said that Neymir was last seen in his home at approximately 4:30 p.m.<\/p>\n
In response to the situation, a large team of officers, including road patrol, K9 units, SWAT technicians with drones, the Marine Unit, Dive Team, detectives, and the Air Unit from the St. Lucie County Sheriff\u2019s Office, searched the surrounding neighborhood for any signs of the young boy, per PSLPD.<\/p>\n
See also: Spider-Man cards & 200-underage party: 2 couples land in jail after wild weekend in PSL<\/a><\/p>\n Tragically, police said that Neymir’s body was discovered in a nearby lake just before 11:30 p.m. <\/p>\n While the investigation into the circumstances surrounding his disappearance is ongoing, authorities have stated that foul play is not suspected at this time.<\/p>\n Find more ways to stay up to date with your latest local news. Sign up for our newsletter<\/a> to get the day’s top headlines delivered right to your inbox. Subscribe to our YouTube channel<\/a> for the biggest stories and can’t miss video.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 A missing non-verbal 5-year-old boy’s body was tragically found in a lake…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51080,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[13709,1609,13334,32375,8930,171,173,172,32374,32376],"class_list":{"0":"post-51951","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-port-st-lucie","8":"tag-autism","9":"tag-lake","10":"tag-missing-child","11":"tag-non-verbal","12":"tag-police-investigation","13":"tag-port-st-lucie","14":"tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","15":"tag-port-st-lucie-news","16":"tag-search-operation","17":"tag-tragedy"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51951","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=51951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}