{"id":521640,"date":"2026-01-17T01:18:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T01:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/521640\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T01:18:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T01:18:14","slug":"missing-philadelphia-teen-whose-phone-pinged-in-san-diego-found-family-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/521640\/","title":{"rendered":"Missing Philadelphia teen whose phone pinged in San Diego found, family says"},"content":{"rendered":"

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) — An 18-year-old in Philadelphia has been found after he was reported missing by his family earlier this week.<\/p>\n

According to his grandmother, Jahmez Cartwright<\/a> was found in California, and there is an ongoing investigation into his disappearance.<\/p>\n

His family said they learned through the school community that Cartwright had been communicating with a man on the video game platform Roblox.<\/p>\n

The teen’s phone reportedly pinged in San Diego, California, on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

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The family says Cartwright has an intellectual disability and is vulnerable to manipulation.<\/p>\n

In a statement on Friday, his mother thanked law enforcement, The Black and Missing Foundation, and members of the community, for rallying around her and the family during the search for Jahmez.<\/p>\n

Further details on the circumstances surrounding this incident have not been released.<\/p>\n

Copyright \u00a9 2026 WPVI-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) — An 18-year-old in Philadelphia has been found after he was reported missing by his family…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":521641,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5132],"tags":[232165,5229,1448,2830,1311,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-521640","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-232165","9":"tag-america","10":"tag-pa","11":"tag-pennsylvania","12":"tag-philadelphia","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-united-states-of-america","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115907809557600396","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521640","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=521640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/521641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}