Operation Home for the Holidays rescued 122 missing children earlier this month across Florida. Twenty-two of those children were right here in Jacksonville.
“The mindset behind this operation was, hey. Holidays are coming up, why not go ahead and do a big operation?” said Sergeant Joshua Sterner, missing person Sergeant Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office.
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A two-week effort, led by the U.S. Marshals Service, the FBI, and local law enforcement, resulted in rescuing 122 missing kids. JSO was part of that search as they worked with the different agencies to locate these children.
JSO Sergeant Joshua Sternersaid the kids they found ranged from the ages of 12 to 16, and some of them had been missing for weeks and even months…