{"id":188864,"date":"2026-05-10T23:29:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T23:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/188864\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T23:29:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T23:29:07","slug":"missing-5-year-old-boy-found-dead-in-monroe-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/188864\/","title":{"rendered":"Missing 5-year-old boy found dead in Monroe County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A missing 5-year-old boy was found dead late Sunday afternoon in Monroe County, state police said.<\/p>\n<p>Ajani Jermaine Samuels was found deceased around 4:30 p.m. in a body of water, according to Trooper Anthony Petroski, a state police spokesperson. Police did not identify the body of water where the boy was found.<\/p>\n<p>Police had been searching for Samuels since he was reported missing around 9 a.m. Sunday, when he left the area of the 100 block of Rose Drive in Chestnuthill Township. The boy was non-verbal and autistic, in addition to being epileptic, state police said.<\/p>\n<p>Petroski thanked emergency responders who helped search for the boy.<\/p>\n<p>No further details were immediately available Sunday evening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A missing 5-year-old boy was found dead late Sunday afternoon in Monroe County, state police said. Ajani Jermaine&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150389,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2376,202,182,2941,139,28,30,29,432],"class_list":["post-188864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-breaking-news","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-local-news","tag-monroe-county","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-top-stories-tmc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}