{"id":314479,"date":"2026-05-29T20:29:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T20:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/314479\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T20:29:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T20:29:09","slug":"body-of-missing-8-year-old-boy-recovered-from-celina-pond-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/314479\/","title":{"rendered":"Body of missing 8-year-old boy recovered from Celina pond, officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The body of a missing 8-year-old boy was recovered from a Celina pond Friday afternoon, according to officials.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>At about 11:15 a.m., the Celina Police Department posted on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CelinaPolice\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">social media about<\/a>\u00a0MJ Ashmead, asking for the public&#8217;s help in locating him. He reportedly went missing in the Rostherne Drive area of the Sutton Field neighborhood.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A short time later, the fire department told CBS News Texas that multiple law enforcement agencies responded to assist.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>CBS News Texas Chopper flew over the scene, where a dive team had been called to search a pond in the area of Wilder Avenue and Sandown Drive, where the body had been found.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/search-for-missing-celina-boy.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"search-for-missing-celina-boy.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Multiple law enforcement agencies responded to help search for a missing 8-year-old, whose body was recovered from a pond on Friday, May 29.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The body of a missing 8-year-old boy was recovered from a Celina pond Friday afternoon, according to officials.\u00a0&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":314480,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[22657,2412,3831,430,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-314479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-celina","tag-drowning","tag-missing-person","tag-north-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}