DILLAN STEWART & COURTNEY HAWKINS - both 16 yo - Gainesboro TN

Missing teen couple in Tennessee considered endangered

Published August 08, 2012

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  Dillan Stewart and Courtney Hawkins, both 16, have been missing since Tuesday evening. (Tennessee Bureau of Investigation)
  

GAINESBORO, Tenn. – Endangered child alerts have been issued after a teenage couple from Jackson County were reported missing.

The county sheriff's office issued the alert Wednesday morning after
16-year-old Courtney Hawkins' car was found in the parking lot of
Jackson County High School with a cracked windshield and a footprint on
the driver side door. The girl and her boyfriend, Dillan Stewart, were
last seen about 4 p.m. Tuesday leaving school property in Courtney's car.

Both teens are considered endangered.

Anyone who sees the teens or has information about their
disappearance should call the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation at (800)TBI-FIND.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/08/08/missing-teen-couple-in-tennessee-considered-endangered/#ixzz22zxh6qMu

Two Teens Found Safe After Endangered Child Alert

08/09/2012

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - A Middle Tennessee endangered child alert has been canceled for two teenagers in Jackson County after they were found safe.

Officials said that 16-year-old Courtney
Hawkins and her boyfriend 16-year-old Dillan Stewart were located in
Gainesboro around midnight.

They had been last seen at Jackson County
High School on Tuesday around 4 p.m. Police said that Courtney's car was
found in the school parking lot early Wednesday morning with a cracked
windshield and a footprint in the driver's side door.

No other details were known.
http://www.newschannel5.com/story/19227700/two-teens-found-safe-after-endangered-child-alert

Jackson County runaways found safe, charged
JACKSON COUNTY -- A desperate search for two runaway Jackson County
teenagers has ended with both found alive and well -- and facing
charges.

Courtney Hawkins and her boyfriend Dillan Stewart, both
16, were found this morning around 12:30 a.m. along with a third
juvenile whose name is not being released.

"They're doing okay,
neither one of them was injured, neither one of them is showing signs of
being held against their will," Mark Majka, Assistant Chief Deputy with
the Jackson County Sheriff's Department, said of Hawkins and Stewart.

Community
members and law enforcement agencies were quick to begin searching for
Hawkins and Stewart but ultimately it was a cell phone that helped
officers locate them.

"We got some information through Verizon
(Wireless) where they were located with their cell phones," Majka said.
"We did a bit of a trace on it that way. We staked out in the area. They
went past one of our officers and he recognized the gentleman sitting
in the back seat as being Dillan."
Officers performed a traffic stop and called the parents of the teens.

Majka says he doesn't know any details about where the teens were going but says they were definitely running away.

Hawkins
and Stewart were reported missing Tuesday afternoon by their parents
and an endangered child alert was issued for the teens.

Hawkins'
vehicle was reportedly found in the high school parking lot with a
cracked windshield and a footprint in the driver's side door.

"It appears the damage was done previously," Majka noted.

Members
of the community took to social media sharing photos of the teens in an
effort to get anyone with information to come forward.

"We did
get some information from people late last night of them being seen
here," Majka said. "It's hard to run down every lead. Once you get to
that point where you receive the information and you get to where they
were seen most generally they've either been there and gone or were seen
as someone different."

The TBI, THP, the Putnam County
Sherrif's Department, members of the community and other agencies helped
the Jackson County Sheriff's Department to search the area.

"It was an all day effort yesterday," Majka said.

Today, all three teens will be in juvenile court to face the charges against them.

Read more: Herald Citizen - Jackson County runaways found safe charged
http://www.herald-citizen.com/view/full_story/19746900/article-Jackson-County-runaways-found-safe--charged?instance=crime_log