{"id":314521,"date":"2026-08-05T18:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T18:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/314521\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T18:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T18:50:09","slug":"police-seek-publics-help-finding-special-needs-teenager-carrying-spongebob-blanket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/314521\/","title":{"rendered":"Police seek public&#8217;s help finding &#8216;special needs&#8217; teenager carrying SpongeBob blanket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MOHAWK, N.Y. \u2014 The New York State Police said it needs the public&#8217;s help finding a missing teenager with &#8220;special needs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The state police said it is searching for 15-year-old Doltin E. Johnson. He was reported missing from his home on Horseshow Lane in Mohawk, N.Y., on the morning of Aug. 4.<\/p>\n<p>The police said Johnson was last seen leaving his home around 5:30 a.m. and &#8220;believed&#8221; to have traveled in an unknown direction.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson is described as 6 feet 2 inches tall, 140 pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes. He was last seen wearing a black shirt, black shorts and no shoes.<\/p>\n<p>He was also carrying two blankets: A blue and green SpongeBob blanket and a second blanket of an unknown color.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson is considered a vulnerable missing child due to his special needs, the police said. His current whereabouts are unknown.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who has seen Johnson or has information regarding his whereabouts is asked to contact the New York State Police at (315) 366-6000 or call 911 immediately. <\/p>\n<p>People are asked to reference case NY2600956978.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MOHAWK, N.Y. \u2014 The New York State Police said it needs the public&#8217;s help finding a missing teenager&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":314522,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10,49,51,50],"class_list":["post-314521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314521","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=314521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}