{"id":198618,"date":"2026-04-15T21:58:42","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T21:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/198618\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T21:58:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T21:58:42","slug":"news-12-bronx-he-is-not-looking-for-trouble-hes-maybe-just-trying-to-survive-says-mom-after-disabled-son-goes-missing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/198618\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Bronx | He Is Not Looking For Trouble Hes Maybe Just Trying To Survive Says Mom After Disabled Son Goes Missing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A 26-year-old man went missing on April 9 at John F. Kennedy International Airport.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Gabriel Garcia\u2019s mother says he has autism and doesn&#8217;t have a phone or money, leaving him in danger.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">&#8220;He is autistic, he has mental disabilities. He is not looking for trouble, he&#8217;s maybe just trying to survive,&#8221; says Garcia\u2019s mother, Deborah.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Deborah and Gabriel were planning to go to the Dominican Republic for a month.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">They were waiting to board the plane when Gabriel walked off and hasn&#8217;t been seen since.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Deborah cancelled her trip and has been walking the streets of the Bronx and Queens with a broken foot to look for her son.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">&#8220;I try to sleep so I have the strength to go back on the streets because I am just starting to look for him. I&#8217;m not planning to stop,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">She is now hoping her message gets to her son and prompts his safe return.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">&#8220;You may think you are safe, but it is good for us to have the peace of knowing where you are,&#8221; says Deborah.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Anyone who has seen Gabriel or knows where he may be, is urged to call police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 26-year-old man went missing on April 9 at John F. Kennedy International Airport. Gabriel Garcia\u2019s mother says&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":198619,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-198618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198618","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=198618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}