Drake Bell Found Alive and ‘Safe’ After ‘Considered Missing and Endangered’ by Daytona Beach Police

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Drake Bell has been found after he was reported missing on Thursday, April 13.“We can confirm law enforcement officials are in contact and Mr.

Bell is safe,” the Daytona Beach Police Department wrote via their official Facebook account hours after declaring the 36-year-old Nickelodeon alum missing.Earlier on Thursday, the DBPD issued a statement searching for the whereabouts of the Drake & Josh alum, whose “last known location is potentially the area of Mainland High School on 4/12/2023 just before 9 p.m,” read a post on the law enforcement’s official Facebook page.

Bell, who was “considered missing and endangered,” was advised to be “traveling in a 2022 grey BMW” at the time.Despite a successful career on Nickelodeon in the early 2000s, thanks to star turns on The Amanda Show and his titular hit, Drake & Josh (alongside costar Josh Peck), it is Bell’s worrisome behavior off screen that has made headlines in recent years.In July 2021, the “Found a Way” musician was sentenced to two years probation — and 200 hours of community service — after he pleaded guilty to two counts of attempted endangering children and disseminating matter harmful to juveniles in 2017.“I just want to say today that I accept this claim because my conduct was wrong,” Bell said during his sentencing. “I’m sorry that the victim was harmed in any way, but that was obviously not my intention.

I take this matter very seriously, and again I just want to apologize to her and anyone else who may have been affected by my actions.”That same month, the actor welcomed a baby boy with then-wife Janet Von Schmeling.