Crime & Safety
After Search In Hoboken, Missing NY Girl Is Found
After the Hoboken police posted photos of 13-year-old girl who was missing from NYC, she was found elsewhere in NJ.
HOBOKEN, NJ — The Hoboken police posted photos on social media on Saturday of a missing 13-year-old girl from New York who was "believed to possibly be in the City of Hoboken." Residents spread the word and shared the post around social media.
But by Sunday evening, the girl had been found, a police spokesperson told Patch.
The teen had been missing since Thursday, Dec. 14, when she was last seen "wearing a black puffer jacket, blue jeans, a white shirt with a white bookbag," according to a poster shared by the Hoboken police, who said they were assisting the NYPD.
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Hoboken police spokesperson Marci Rubin said that the girl was ultimately found in Paterson by the Paterson police.
Rubin said she's now safe, "and has been reunited with her family."
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Police updated the post on Sunday. No further information was released.
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