said on Fox & Friends Tuesday morning<\/a>.<\/p>\n\u201cWhenever he\u2019s ready to come home, let us know where to pick him up. And he\u2019s not in trouble at all. We love him more than anything in [our lives],\u201d she added.<\/p>\n
Investigators believe the teen met someone online and arranged to connect with them in city \u2014 something the heartbroken mom said is out of character for her teen son.<\/p>\n
Police recently told the family the boy\u2019s phone was located in Lower Manhattan and he was recently spotted on surveillance video in Brooklyn, according to Yan.<\/p>\n
Roblox told The Post over that weekend that it is cooperating fully with the investigation.<\/p>\n
Medlin\u2019s mother, Eva Yan, promised her son that he\u2019s not in trouble in a TV interview Tuesday morning. FOX & Friends<\/p>\n
Thomas Medlin, 15, is believed to have traveled to New York City to meet someone he met playing Roblox. Family Handout<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are deeply troubled by this incident and are working with law enforcement to support their investigation,\u201d a company spokesperson said in a statement.<\/p>\n
Yan believes Medlin was able to bypass parental features she had put in place by secretly creating new Roblox accounts she did not know about with a separate email address, she told Fox.<\/p>\n
Sources said an internal probe didn\u2019t reveal any suspicious activity in his disappearance.<\/p>\n
Medlin was described by police as 5-foot, four-inches tall and weighing 130 pounds.<\/p>\n
He was last seen wearing a black jacket with red stripes, dark sweatpants with white stripes, a black backpack and glasses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The distraught mother of a missing 15-year-old boy police believe traveled to New York City more than two…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":114125,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[57,7373,9,56,63,65,64,32373,58,26209],"class_list":["post-114124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-metro","tag-missing-persons","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-online-gaming","tag-us-news","tag-video-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}