Crime & Safety
NK Teen Safe After Being Lost Overnight
While police and his father searched for him, youth found refuge in a barn.
Even if it has a GPS unit, a cell phone won't help locate a missing person if the cell phone battery is exhausted.
State Police Sgt. Michael Rosa of the said that is one lesson from an episode that began Thursday evening with a group of five teens who decided to "hang out" in the woods near Shady Lea Road.
According to the State Police report on the incident, one 16-year-old became detached from the group and became disoriented in the dark. He called his parents around 11:30 p.m. and his father set out to find him. When he was unable to locate his son, and the son's cell phone stopped working, the family called the who in turn called the State Police. Officers sent a canine team, but they did not locate the teen either.
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Meanwhile, the missing youth made his way to a barn off Gilbert Stuart Road and took shelter. When the owner of the barn came out to feed her animals around 6 a.m., Friday, the teen identified himself and called his parents.
Police transported him to a hospital as a precaution, said Rosa, but the teen was unharmed.
