{"id":43468,"date":"2025-07-06T13:35:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-06T13:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/43468\/"},"modified":"2025-07-06T13:35:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-06T13:35:13","slug":"good-samaritan-rescues-kidnapped-child-suspect-in-custody-jso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/43468\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Samaritan rescues kidnapped child, suspect in custody: JSO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 The Jacksonville Sheriff\u2019s Office (JSO) said a good Samaritan rescued a 9-year-old child from getting kidnapped.<\/p>\n<p>Deputies said on June 27, patrol officers responded to Northwest Jacksonville after 911 operators received a \u201cdisturbing call.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 9-year-old boy was selling water on the road when 22-year-old Mikaya Williams stopped and tried to lure him into her car. The boy refused, so Williams got out, pulled the child in her vehicle, and drove off, deputies said.<\/p>\n<p>A family friend of the boy saw this kidnapping, followed her car to W 45th Street, and when the vehicle stopped, took the boy and blocked the car in until officers arrived. JSO said deputies arrested Williams on the scene for Kidnapping, a 1st degree felony.<\/p>\n<p>She is currently at the Duval County Jail without bond. The boy was returned safely.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/generic_2025.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p><b>Local couple prepares to compete in Nathan\u2019s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest<\/b><\/p>\n<p>This year, a Tampa Bay area couple is back competing with the hopes of bringing another title back to \u201cChampa Bay!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Local couple prepares to compete in Nathan\u2019s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 The Jacksonville Sheriff\u2019s Office (JSO) said a good Samaritan rescued a 9-year-old child from getting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":16174,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5136],"tags":[33995,4472,5229,7361,3188,723,24324,1168,7310,22938,33996,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,4475],"class_list":["post-43468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-9-year-old-boy","tag-abc-action-news","tag-america","tag-custody","tag-fl","tag-florida","tag-florida-news","tag-good-samaritan","tag-jacksonville","tag-kidnapping","tag-sunshine-state-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-wfts"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114806556343775917","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}