CHELSEA VANDENBURG - 14 yo - Logan (N of Salt Lake City) UT/WA alerted

Logan police are asking for the public's help to locate a missing teen who hasn't been seen since Tuesday. Chelsea Vandenburg, 14, was reported missing by a family member at6:35 p.m. Tuesday. The family of the Logan girl told police she didn't make it to school Tuesday morning. Officers had the family fill out a runaway juvenile form, according to police records. Logan Assistant Police Chief Jeff Curtis said Friday that Vandenburg is assumed to be missing and endangered.Information about the case has been entered into the National Crime Information Center, or NCIC. The nationwide database connects law enforcement and the FBI.


A missing person poster distributed by the teen's family indicates Vandenburg is 5 feet, 4 inches tall, weighs between 130 and 140 pounds and has dark hair with purple highlights. Curtis said the girl commonly wears flip flops.Reportedly Vandenburg is diabetic and requires special care.Curtis said detectives aren't certain where the girl is but suspect she may be heading to Spokane, Wash.Police advise people that if they see the girl outside of Cache County to contact local authorities first before contacting Logan police.Residents with information about Vandenburg's whereabouts are encouraged to call detectives at 716-9300.

Police say a Logan teen missing since Sept. 7 is safe after shecontacted authorities Thursday afternoon saying she was back inCache Valley. Fourteen-year-old Chelsea Vandenberg was reported as a runawaylast Tuesday after her family told law enforcement she did not makeit to school or come home later that day.
Detectives worked for nine days with various police agenciestrying to locate the girl.Assistant Police Chief Jeff Curtis said Vandenberg came back toLogan on her own and was speaking on Thursday afternoon with policeinvestigators and officials from the state Department of Child andFamily Services."She's safe, she's healthy, and we appreciate everybody's helpin trying to locate her," he said. "These are the kind of outcomeswe like to see."Curtis said the teen has been out of the valley but not out ofthe state, as was previously suspected.Police are still sorting the details about the case and saidThursday they weren't certain who Vandenberg was with or why sheleft.Just before contacting police, the girl approached a HeraldJournal newsroom employee in a parking lot near 75 W. 300 North atabout 2:10 p.m.Vandenberg asked to borrow the employee's cell phone, which sheused to call a police detective. The girl reported herself as arunaway and gave police her name. Vandenberg was carrying a largesuitcase and backpack.Police met her on 300 North and walked with her to the policestation.The employee noted Vandenberg was dropped off in the parking lotby someone who drove away before she called police. Police say it'sunknown who the driver was.