{"id":30998,"date":"2026-05-07T13:49:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T17:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/?p=30998"},"modified":"2026-07-14T09:42:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T13:42:14","slug":"maryland-state-police-seek-assistance-in-locating-missing-wicomico-county-juvenile-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/2026\/05\/07\/maryland-state-police-seek-assistance-in-locating-missing-wicomico-county-juvenile-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Maryland State Police Seek Assistance In Locating Missing Wicomico County Juvenile"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>UPDATE: Chester Fitchett III has been located.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>(SALISBURY, MD) \u2013 Maryland State Police are seeking the public\u2019s assistance in helping to locate a missing juvenile in Wicomico County.<\/p>\n<p>Chester Fitchett III, 14, was reported missing on May 5. He was last seen at around 3 p.m., in the 200 block of Baptist Street in Salisbury, Maryland. He is described as an African American male with black curly hair and brown eyes, approximately 5 feet 5 inches tall, weighing approximately 120 pounds. He was last seen wearing a royal blue &#8220;Nike Tech&#8221; jacket, blue jeans, and white\/black Nike sneakers. Investigators believe he may be in the area of Smith Street in Salisbury.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is asked to contact the Maryland State Police Salisbury Barrack at 410-749-3101. The investigation remains active and ongoing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2026\/05\/Fitchett.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-30999\" src=\"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2026\/05\/Fitchett-1024x720.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"760\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2026\/05\/Fitchett-1024x720.png 1024w, https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2026\/05\/Fitchett-300x211.png 300w, https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2026\/05\/Fitchett-768x540.png 768w, https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2026\/05\/Fitchett.png 1320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 760px) 100vw, 760px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">###<\/p>\n<p>CONTACT:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Office of Media Communications, <a href=\"mailto:msp.media@maryland.gov\">msp.media@maryland.gov<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATE: Chester Fitchett III has been located.\u00a0 (SALISBURY, MD) \u2013 Maryland State Police are seeking the public\u2019s assistance in helping to locate a missing juvenile in Wicomico County. Chester Fitchett III, 14, was reported missing on May 5. He was last seen at around 3 p.m., in the 200 block of Baptist Street in Salisbury,<a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/2026\/05\/07\/maryland-state-police-seek-assistance-in-locating-missing-wicomico-county-juvenile-2\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;Read the Rest&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":260,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[10,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barrackse-salisbury","category-press-releases"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/260"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30998"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31064,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30998\/revisions\/31064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}