Teen With Knife Sought In Heroes Park: Cops

MISSION VIEJO, CA —Orange County Sheriff's Department officers responded to the businesses in the area of Sonic Burgers and Popeyes Chicken parking lot after reports of a juvenile brandishing a knife on Tuesday.

Officers arrived in the parking area at Los Alisos and Jeronimo Road in Mission Viejo to find parents seeking their runaway daughter's return who had been threatened with the blade, Lt. Quyen Vuong told Patch.

Two runaway teenagers, a boy, and a girl, were in the parking lot of the business plaza on Tuesday evening. When the girl's parents approached the pair, they attempted to get their daughter to come home with them, according to Vuong.

"At that time, the boy brandished a knife," Vuong said. "He ran into Heroes Park, across the street, when the sheriff's department was called."

A significant OCSD presence descended on the area, with about 10 to 12 Mission Viejo vehicles, along with OCSD's Duke helicopter. Officers searched the park and surrounding neighborhoods in the growing darkness for about an hour until they found him.

No one was hurt in the incident.

"The girl returned home with her parents, and the boy was taken into custody," Vuong said, adding, "as both were under 18, their names were not released."