VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — An unknown source demanded ransom from the family of Juan Sebastian Mejia Acevedo — police determined the request was a scam originating from outside the United States.

The body of Juan Sebastian Mejia Acevedo was found Monday afternoon in a pond outside the Cambria at Cornerstone apartments in Virginia Beach, police said. The 12-year-old was believed to be at a ...

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — The body recovered from a pond by a Virginia Beach apartment Monday is 12-year-old Juan Sebastian Mejia Acevedo, police said Monday afternoon. No cause of death was ...

Donna Price, a spokeswoman for the Tidewater Medical Examiner’s Office, released the information about the death of Juan Sebastian Mejia Acevedo in an email Wednesday afternoon. Acevedo’s ...

The ransom request was sent to the parents of Juan Sebastian Mejia Acevedo via WhatsApp while they were on Facebook Live, which led Virginia Beach investigators to call the matter a suspected ...

Police were searching a pond Monday that was near the apartment complex where Juan Sebastian Mejia Acevedo was last seen Friday. "Our marine patrol was back out here early this morning checking ...

Juan Sebastian Mejia Acevedo, 12, was found dead in the local pond Monday afternoon, after his parents called police Friday night and said the boy never came home from a friend’s house ...

The ransom texts sent to the family of 12-year-old Juan Acevedo were an overseas scam, police said Thursday.

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