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17-Year-Old Bradenton Girl Missing Since January: Sheriff

Jinyah Reents ran away from Southeast High School Jan. 7 and hasn't contacted her family since, the sheriff's office said.

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Jinyah Reents ran away from Southeast High School since Jan. 7 and hasn’t contacted her family, the sheriff’s office said.
Jinyah Reents ran away from Southeast High School since Jan. 7 and hasn’t contacted her family, the sheriff’s office said. (Manatee County Sheriff's Office)

BRADENTON, FL — A 17-year-old Bradenton girl has been missing since Jan. 7, when she ran away from Southeast High School, the Manatee County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release.

Jinyah Reents was dropped off at school, which is located at 1200 37th Ave. E. in Bradenton, by her father that morning.

When an employee of a family resource center, which runs a shelter she had been staying at prior to her disappearance, came to pick her up at the end of the school day, she wasn’t there, police said.

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Jinyah has a history of running away but has never gone this long without contacting her family, police said.

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The teen is 5 feet, 4 inches tall and weights around 200 pounds.

Anyone with information about Jinyah should call the sheriff’s office at 941-747-3011.

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