{"id":445,"date":"2026-10-03T14:19:17","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T14:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/?p=445"},"modified":"2026-10-03T14:19:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T14:19:18","slug":"long-island-sweep-finds-34-missing-kids-three-day-garden-city-command-center-pull-trafficking-cases-included-31-still-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/?p=445","title":{"rendered":"LONG ISLAND SWEEP FINDS 34 MISSING KIDS! | Three-day Garden City command center pull \u2014 trafficking cases included; 31 still open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thirty-four missing kids and teens \u2014 ages <strong>7 to 18<\/strong> when reported \u2014 were found in a three-day <strong>Long Island Missing Child Rescue Operation<\/strong> run from a Garden City command center, Gov. Kathy Hochul announced, <a href=\"https:\/\/greaterlongisland.com\/long-island-missing-child-rescue-operation-34-found\/\">Greater Long Island<\/a> reported Oct. 3, 2026 (also framed by Newsday \/ the governor\u2019s office).<\/p>\n<p>The haul: <strong>Nassau 18<\/strong>, <strong>Suffolk 12<\/strong>, <strong>Queens 4<\/strong>. More than <strong>100 professionals<\/strong> from nearly <strong>40<\/strong> law enforcement, prosecutor, social-service, and advocacy agencies worked the cases \u2014 including trafficking. Another <strong>31 local cases<\/strong> remain open on Long Island. It is the fourth New York operation of its kind; earlier sweeps in Erie County, the Capital Region, and Westchester County located <strong>168<\/strong> missing children and teens.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery missing child deserves our full attention, and every family deserves answers,\u201d Hochul said. National Child Protection Task Force CEO Kevin Branzetti stressed that finding is only the first step: listen to why they left, what they experienced, and what help they need next.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/greaterlongisland.com\/long-island-missing-child-rescue-operation-34-found\/\">Greater Long Island \u2014 Brian Harmon<\/a> (Hochul office \/ Newsday framing)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three-day Garden City command center pull \u2014 trafficking cases included; 31 still open<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":440,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/bb-li-missing-kids-1003.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=445"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":446,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445\/revisions\/446"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}