{"id":538501,"date":"2026-03-22T11:48:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T11:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/538501\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T11:48:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T11:48:12","slug":"missing-autistic-eht-teen-found-safe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/538501\/","title":{"rendered":"Missing autistic EHT teen found safe"},"content":{"rendered":"

An Egg Harbor Township teen missing since Friday afternoon has been found safe.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Joel Medina, 17, walked away from his home around 3 p.m. Friday in the area of Fourth Avenue behind the Shore Mall off of West Jersey Avenue.<\/p>\n

The news led to a large search that included drones and FLIR thermal cameras.<\/p>\n

Residents came together to help as the search surpassed 24 hours.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The teen was found safe and in good condition, and reunited with his family, police said at 1:30 a.m.\u00a0<\/p>\n

No details were given.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0<\/a> Egg Harbor Township police provided this map of the area where Joel Medina would have been seen after leaving his home.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Egg Harbor Township teen missing since Friday afternoon has been found safe.\u00a0 Joel Medina, 17, walked away…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":537044,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-538501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=538501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/537044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}