Missing Colorado Teen Found in Venice

An 18-year-old who had been reported missing from Colorado has been found safe in Venice, police said Friday.

Raven Cassidy Furlong, who left Aurora, Colo., on Feb. 5, was found Friday night, questioned by police and released, according to a desk officer at the Los Angeles Police Department's Pacific Station.

Furlong did not want to return to Colorado and police had no reason to hold her since she is an adult, the officer said, adding the woman's parents were notified that she had been found safe.

Furlong was 17 when she was reported missing, police said. It was unclear when she turned 18.

Police located her after she was spotted at a taping of American Ninja Warrior, according to Fox11. Furlong told a news photographer she is fine and has been for a while and wished to be left alone.

The search for Furlong shifted last month to Venice, where her car was found, after her parents reported they had received a parking ticket from that area in the mail, according to a Facebook page set up Feb. 5 by Furlong's parents and the National Women's Coalition Against Violence & Exploitation (NWCAVE).

"We love you Raven! The police may not care they just released you back to those keeping you away from us, but we will never stop looking and loving you," a comment posted on the page read.

Lin Furlong said she feared her daughter might have been kidnapped after her name turned up on a modeling site, Model Mayhem.

Furlong's parents offered a $1,000 reward for information leading them to their daughter, according to KMGH-TV, the ABC affiliate in Denver.