{"id":44521,"date":"2026-03-19T14:41:51","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T14:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=44521"},"modified":"2026-03-19T14:41:52","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T14:41:52","slug":"mystery-deepens-as-missing-alabama-students-phone-is-found-after-arrest-in-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=44521","title":{"rendered":"Mystery deepens as missing Alabama student\u2019s phone is found after arrest in Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">James \u201cJimmy\u201d Gracey is still missing in Barcelona, and just as the search intensifies, his family has revealed a disturbing update.The 20-year-old University of Alabama student\u2019s phone has reportedly been recovered \u2014 not by chance, but after Spanish police detained an individual, raising serious new questions about what may have happened the night he vanished.The search for James \u201cJimmy\u201d Gracey is taking a troubling turn.The 20-year-old was last seen around 3 a.m. Tuesday on surveillance footage leaving a popular nightclub in Barcelona \u2014 not alone, but with an unidentified person after a night out with fraternity brothers.In a chilling development, his phone was recovered by Spanish police after another person was taken into custody, a family spokesperson told Fox News.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, it\u2019s still unclear whether the arrest is directly connected to Gracey\u2019s disappearance.We don\u2019t know whether [the phone] was lost, stolen, whatever,\u201d his aunt, Beth O\u2019Reilly, told NewsNation. \u201cBeyond that, we don\u2019t have a lot of additional information right now.\u201dAuthorities have remained tight-lipped, declining to share details about the person found with the phone or whether they are linked to the case.Investigators are now analyzing the device\u2019s location data in an effort to retrace Gracey\u2019s movements after he left the club.Another chilling update emerged Thursday from Spanish police in the search for Gracey. Authorities say the missing 20-year-old\u2019s wallet was found floating in the water off the coast of Barcelona.Police confirmed that his wallet had been recovered from the sea near Somorrostro Beach \u2014 a development that has intensified concerns about what may have happened after he disappeared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James \u201cJimmy\u201d Gracey is still missing in Barcelona, and just as the search intensifies, his family has revealed a disturbing update.The 20-year-old University of Alabama student\u2019s phone&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44522,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"views":91,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44521"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44523,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44521\/revisions\/44523"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/44522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}