MARIJA MIKALONIS - 14 yo - Stockton CA

Stockton CA ---- Stockton police were asking the public's
help for any information about a 14-year-old McNair High School student
who hasn't returned home since Friday.

Pete Smith with the Stockton Police Department said Marija
Mikalonis, who has been determined to possibly be at risk for a reason
unspecified by police, usually goes home straight from school but didn't
last Friday, April 30.






Mikalonis was described as white, 5 feet 3 inches tall and
140 pounds. She has brown hair and blue eyes. When last seen, Mikalonis
was wearing an orange, multi-colored skirt; orange shirt and white
sandals.
Anyone who has seen the teen or has related information was urged to
contact the police department at (209) 937-8323, or after hours, at
(209) 937-8245.

Police are searching for a 14-year-old McNair
High School student who has been reported missing since Friday.
Marija Mikalonis is described as white, between 5
feet 3 inches and 5 feet 6 inches tall, 140 pounds, with blue eyes and
brown hair. She was last seen wearing a multicolored skirt, an orange
shirt and white sandals.
Family members said Mikalonis is a freshman at McNair High who has few friends and usually
goes straight to her Claridge Lane home after school. The family does
not believe she would run away.
She did not come home from school after
attending all her classes Friday and has not been seen or heard from
since, her uncle Justin Kerlin said.
"We don't know what's going on, because everything for her at home has been very
copacetic," Kerlin said. "She was excited about going to the movies this
weekend and excited about a swim class she was supposed to start at
school (Monday)."
Officer Pete Smith said Stockton police did not consider Mikalonis at risk Friday. On Monday,
police received information that Mikalonis was seen by a school employee
hitchhiking on Eight Mile Road near Highway 99.
"The fact that she was seen engaging in dangerous
activity like hitchhiking elevated this to an at-risk case," Smith said.
Kerlin said hitchhiking is "very unlike Marija."
Anyone with information on this case can contact
Stockton Police during business hours at (209) 937-8323 or after hours
at (209) 937-8245.

A mystery is unfolding in Stockton where a missing
teenager has been found safe and sound, but investigators are now
trying to determine exactly what happened.
It has been a trying four days for the family of Marija Mikalonis.
The McNair High School student was reported
missing late Friday when she failed to return home from school --
unusual behavior for the 14-year-old -- according to family members.
Stockton Police Officer Pete Smith says she was
found early Tuesday morning at a home in Thornton, which is about 20 miles north of Stockton.
Smith says while officers investigate the circumstances
that led to Marija's disappearance -- there is some positive news.
Smith says it appears as though the girl was returned home in good health.

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A 14-year-old girl reported as missing and at-risk on Monday is back
with her family, Stockton police said.Marija Mikalonis called her
family Monday from a home in Thornton, but didn't tell them where she
was, officials said.Her family went to the small community with
flyers and knocked on doors. They eventually found the girl and took her
home.Police are investigating the circumstances of her
disappearance.