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11-Year-Old Found After Going Missing On UWS: Police

A missing 11-year-old girl returned home Sunday after going missing from the UWS the day before, according to police.

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11-year-old Journey Lyles was last seen Saturday afternoon at 104th Street between Amsterdam and Columbus
11-year-old Journey Lyles was last seen Saturday afternoon at 104th Street between Amsterdam and Columbus (Photo courtesy of the New York Police Department. )

UPDATE: Journey Lyles returned home safe and in good health on Sunday.

UPPER WEST SIDE, NY — Police are asking for the public's help in finding an 11-year-old girl last seen on the Upper West Side.

Journey Lyles was last seen in her apartment within the Frederick Douglass Houses at 140 West 104th Street around 3:30 p.m., according to police.

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Police describe Lyles as a Black girl who is 4-feet, 6 inches, 130 pounds, with a medium build, and black hair and brown eyes. She was last seen wearing blue jeans with rips on the front and black Jordan sneakers, according to the NYPD.

Anyone with information in regard to this incident is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782).

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