The Orion Substation of the Oakland County Sheriff’s Department assisted an Alabama police unit last week in finding an 18-year-old female that was reported missing.
The Tuscombia Police Department contacted officials in Orion because they believed the teen was staying on Mill Lake Road.
According to an OCSD report, the teen was ‘possibly being held against her will,? though Sergeant Suarez of the OCSD said the entire incident amounted to little more than a dispute between to families based thousands of miles away from each other.
Deputies first contacted homeowners on Mill Lake last Wednesday (Jan. 31), but the residents did not recognize a picture of the teen.
They said it was possible that someone may have been using their wireless internet connection.
On Friday (Feb. 2), the teen’s parents from Alabama, who had also hired a private investigator, came to Orion and told deputies that their daughter had been gone since Dec. 22, when she ‘voluntarily? left home. They said she went to go stay with a friend.
The next day, deputies identified an Alabama license plate on a white van located on Mill Lake, down the street from the previous address they had visited.
The teen was found in the living room and deputies believed she was intoxicated. She blew well over the legal limit in a preliminary breath examination, but was sent for a psychological evaluation as opposed to being placed under arrest.
Suarez said the teen has since returned home with her parents. He noted that because she was 18, the teen was not required to return to Alabama, but chose to do so anyway.