{"id":369274,"date":"2026-07-11T08:33:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T08:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/369274\/"},"modified":"2026-07-11T08:33:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T08:33:20","slug":"missing-12-year-old-boy-from-lincoln-found-in-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/369274\/","title":{"rendered":"Missing 12-year-old boy from Lincoln found in Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"770\" height=\"433\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/untitled-design-5-1024x576.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-5099297 attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Mugshot of a woman in front of police lights.\"  \/>COURTESY: BOWIE COUNTY JAIL<\/p>\n<p>LINCOLN, Neb. (KLKN) \u2014 A 12-year-old boy was found after nearly two weeks of being missing. He was found in Texarkana, Texas after leaving Lincoln with a friend\u2019s family. One person has been arrested.<\/p>\n<p>Officers filed a report on Friday, Jun 26 after the boy\u2019s mother reported that he went to a friend\u2019s house and never returned home.<\/p>\n<p>During the investigation, officers learned the 12-year-old had gone to Texarkana. He traveled there on a bus with his friend and his friend\u2019s mother. Officers then contacted US Marshals Metro Fugitive Task Force (MFTF) to assist with the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>MTFT, US Marshals Western District of Arkansas Fugitive Task Force (WAFTF) and the Texarkana Police Department were able to locate the missing 12-year-old on July 9 around noon where they were also able to make an arrest.<\/p>\n<p>Tracy Riley, 49, was arrested for violation of custody and contributing to the delinquency of a minor. She is being held in Texarkana and awaiting extradition to Nebraska.<\/p>\n<p>According to the US Marshals Service, the boy was found in good health.<\/p>\n<p>The Lincoln Police Department are making plans to return the boy to Lincoln.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COURTESY: BOWIE COUNTY JAIL LINCOLN, Neb. (KLKN) \u2014 A 12-year-old boy was found after nearly two weeks of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":369275,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[130516,1680,130836,671,22738,27,29,28,130837],"class_list":["post-369274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-12-year-old","tag-arrest","tag-metro-fugative-task-force","tag-missing","tag-missing-child","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-violation-of-custody"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369274","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=369274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}