{"id":341545,"date":"2026-06-18T17:03:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T17:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/341545\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T17:03:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T17:03:08","slug":"missing-maple-heights-child-found-safe-in-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/341545\/","title":{"rendered":"Missing Maple Heights child found safe in Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) &#8211; A missing six-year-old Maple Heights boy, was found safe in Houston, Texas, the U.S. Marshals announced Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">D\u2019Juan Younger, 37, is now charged with interference with custody. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Younger allegedly took the child from a family member\u2019s home without permission on June 15.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The child mother called Maple Heights police after arriving at the family member\u2019s home and finding the child missing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Police and the mother pleaded with Younger to return the boy, but he refused, said the U.S. Marshals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">On June 16, Maple Heights police requested assistance from the U.S. Marshals Service SPEAR Unit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The U.S. Marshals in Northern Ohio then immediately reached out to the U.S. Marshals in the Southern District of Texas. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The child was found safe the next day and Younger taken into custody.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Younger will remain in Texas until he is can be extradited back to Cuyahoga County.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WOIO. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) &#8211; A missing six-year-old Maple Heights boy, was found safe in Houston, Texas, the U.S.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":341546,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[120492,121833,121832,27,29,28,8062],"class_list":["post-341545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-6-year-old","tag-djuan-younger","tag-maple-heights","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-u-s-marshals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341545","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=341545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}