Crime & Safety

Missing Teen Found: State Police

Police say the disabled girl, who left Patterson on Christmas Eve, was found safe.

BREWSTER, NY — With the assistance of the New York City Police Department’s Missing Person Squad and the FDNY, Figueroa has been located in New York City in good health, state police report.

New York State Police from the Brewster barracks have been seeking 19-year-old Patricia Figueroa of Patterson, NY since Christmas Eve.

Patricia was last seen that day at the Patterson Train Station in Putnam County. Police confirmed her arrival at Grand Central and then several days later reported that she had been seen in Greenwich Village.

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Figueroa is mentally disabled and suffers from anxiety, police said.

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