A 16-year-old boy vanished from a residential stretch of Holiday, Florida, Monday afternoon, and Pasco County deputies are now asking the public to help find him. Jormeron Green was last spotted around 4:10 p.m. in the area of Essex Drive, according to authorities, who describe him as a missing and endangered juvenile.
Deputies with the Tampa Free Press say Green is 5 feet 6 inches tall and weighs approximately 100 pounds, with black hair and brown eyes. He was last seen wearing either a red or gray hoodie paired with light gray or white-washed jeans, and he was carrying a multi-colored graphic backpack. Pasco Sheriff's deputies have urged anyone with information about his location to come forward.
Holiday is an unincorporated community in western Pasco County with an estimated population of roughly 21,500 residents, according to the same Tampa Free Press report. The neighborhood has seen a string of missing-teen searches in recent months, part of a broader pattern of youth cases that Pasco County deputies have worked through the county's western suburbs.
How to Report a Sighting or Tip
Anyone with information about Green's whereabouts is asked to call the Pasco Sheriff's Office non-emergency line at 727-847-8102 and select option 7, per the Tampa Free Press. Tips can also be submitted online through the Pasco Sheriff's Office tip portal at PascoSheriff.com/tips, one of the dedicated channels the agency maintains alongside a toll-free crime tip line to crowdsource public leads during active investigations, according to Pasco County records.
It remains unclear whether investigators currently believe Green ran away or is facing some other form of danger, and no information has been released about surveillance footage from nearby commercial areas that might show his movements after he was last seen on Essex Drive.
Why Deputies Moved So Quickly
The speed of the public search reflects Florida law rather than any unusual escalation in Green's case. Under Florida Statute § 937.021, law enforcement agencies statewide are barred from imposing any mandatory waiting period before accepting a missing person report, meaning deputies must begin intake and search efforts immediately upon notification, as detailed by Uncovered Investigates. The same statute requires agencies to notify on-duty officers right away and enter missing child reports into state and national crime databases within two hours of receiving credible information.
Those entries feed into the Missing Endangered Persons Information Clearinghouse, a 24/7 repository the Florida Department of Law Enforcement operates under Florida Statute § 937.022 to provide analytical support to local sheriff's offices statewide, according to FDLE. Not every missing-teen case in Florida triggers a formal Missing Child Alert; FDLE criteria require that the missing person be under 18 and that investigators establish a well-founded belief, based on an active investigation, that the child faces danger of death or serious bodily injury. In 2024, FDLE worked 404 missing person alerts statewide, including 84 Missing Child Alerts and 9 AMBER Alerts, per state clearinghouse figures.
National Numbers Offer Some Context
Nationally, the outlook for missing children skews toward safe recovery. The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children assisted law enforcement with 32,167 missing child cases in 2025 and recovered 90 percent of those children safely, according to MissingKids.org. Of the 498,038 new missing person reports filed across the country in 2025, 305,339 involved juveniles under 18, and runaways accounted for an estimated 80 to 85 percent of youth cases, per the Texas Center for the Missing.
Green's disappearance is the latest in a series of missing-person searches Pasco County deputies have handled in the Holiday area in recent months. Hoodline previously reported on missing teen Marissa Morton near Holiday, while other recent Pasco cases, including searches for missing teens Ava Fotopoulos and Sarah Gannon, also centered on the same community. Elsewhere in the county, a search for missing Wesley Chapel teen Dakota Rubel ended after a week when she was found safe, and a Port Richey search for Lourdes Arocha also resolved safely, illustrating that most such cases in the region have concluded without harm.
