{"id":88288,"date":"2026-01-16T06:54:23","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T06:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/88288\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T06:54:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T06:54:23","slug":"missing-philly-teen-may-have-been-lured-to-san-diego-by-man-he-met-on-roblox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/88288\/","title":{"rendered":"Missing Philly teen may have been lured to San Diego by man he met on Roblox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/s3or4dw2v43hnb8l.jpg\" alt=\"Missing Philly teen may have been lured to San Diego by man he met on Roblox\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-4292be72=\"\"\/>    <\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">PHILADELPHIA &#8211; Police are searching for a missing Philadelphia teen who may have been lured to San Diego by a man he met while playing Roblox.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTXF\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Jahmez Cartwright, 18, was reported missing in Southwest Philadelphia on Monday after he missed school and never returned home.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">A day later, it&#8217;s believed that Cartwright&#8217;s phone pinged over 2,500 miles away in San Diego, California.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">The Black and Missing Foundation said Cartwright may have been lured to the West Coast by an older man who he met while playing Roblox.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTXF\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">What you can do:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Detectives are asking anyone with information on Jahmez Cartwright&#8217;s whereabouts to contact the Philadelphia Police Department.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Jahmez is described as 5-foot-7, 120 pounds with black curly hair and brown eyes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">He was last seen wearing a black coat and dark blue jeans.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox29.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime &amp; Public Safety<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox29.com\/tag\/us\/pa\/philadelphia\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Philadelphia<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox29.com\/tag\/us\/ca\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">California<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox29.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\/missing-persons\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Missing Persons<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox29.com\/tag\/news\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA &#8211; Police are searching for a missing Philadelphia teen who may have been lured to San Diego&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88289,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[3167,592,1869,139,539,69,71,70,593],"class_list":{"0":"post-88288","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-crime-publicsafety","10":"tag-missing-persons","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-pa","13":"tag-philadelphia","14":"tag-philadelphia-headlines","15":"tag-philadelphia-news","16":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88288","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=88288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}