DEANNA PILLA - 17 yo - Swiftwater (SE of Scranton/Poconos) PA

Police are looking for a missing 17-year-old
resident of the Shawnee Academy.
Deanna Pilla was reported missing at around 2:30 p.m. Monday. She was last seen on
an island in the Brodhead Creek.




The girl is described as 5 feet 3 inches tall,
weighing 110 pounds with blond hair and blue eyes.
She was wearing a black short sleeve shirt over a
white long sleeve shirt with blue jeans and a rainbow-colored belt.
State police at Swiftwater are conducting the search.

The search for a 17-year-old girl reported missing Monday afternoon from
the Shawnee Academy in the Poconos was called off Tuesday when she
returned to school in the morning, police said.

Deanna Pilla's disappearance from the school in Smithfield
Township brought out state police and three fire companies to search
for her Monday evening in the Brodhead Creek area, where she had been
last seen.

State police at Swiftwater on Tuesday thanked Delaware Water Gap Fire
Department, Shawnee Fire Company, Portland Fire Company and Suburban EMS
for their extensive work to look for the girl.

Police did not say why the girl was gone.