DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – The Daytona Beach Police Department posted an update just before 1:30 p.m. Thursday saying that Drake Bell, the former star of the popular Nickelodeon show “Drake & Josh,” was safe after being reported missing and endangered.
The police department said they were in contact with 36-year-old Jared Bell “and Mr. Bell is safe.”
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Officials had earlier said his last known location was potentially the area of Mainland High School on Wednesday, April 12, just before 9 p.m.
Bell began acting as a child and was catapulted to fame as a teen with Nickelodeon’s “The Amanda Show” and later “Drake & Josh.” The Nickelodeon show starring Bell and Josh Peck ran from 2004 until 2007, and was accompanied by two movies.
Since then, Bell has mostly worked as a voice actor in addition to roles in little-seen TV series and movies. He also launched a music career.
In 2021, Bell was charged with child endangerment relating to a girl who attended a 2017 concert of his in Cleveland when she was 15 and had met him online years before. He pleaded guilty to felony attempted child endangerment and a misdemeanor charge of disseminating matter harmful to juveniles and was sentenced to two years’ probation. He was allowed to serve his probation and 200 hours of community service in California.