HELENA PINKERTON-16 YO-Lake City FL

10/3/2012: MISSING GIRL: Please share! Lake
City, Florida: LAKE CITY, Fla. -- The Lake City Police Department is
looking for a 16-year-old girl who ran away from the Youth Interface
facility.

Helena Pinkerton left the facility August 16, 2
012.
She has not been seen or heard from by family since then, according to a
news release from Craig Strickland, Public Information Officer for the
Lake City Police Department.

Pinkerton is described as being a
white female, 5'4" tall, weighing 130 pounds with red/brown hair, brown
eyes, braces with pink bands and piercings in her ears, nose and navel.
She goes by the nickname "Who" to family members.

Strickland
said possible locations after her departure include ▬►Gainesville or
▬►Live Oak areas since she has friends in both communities.


Pinkerton has been entered into the Florida Department of Law
Enforcement's Missing Endangered Persons Information Clearing House as
missing and a state notification has been released, Strickland said.

Anyone who has any information on Helena Pinkerton's whereabouts or if
you have seen her at any time after August 16, you are asked to please
contact Investigator David Grear at 386-758-7541.

If you would like to remain anonymous, you may call the TIPS Line at 386-719-2068.

Police are asking people to please leave any information that may be
able to assist them in locating Helena Pinkerton, no matter how minor or
major a person may think the information is.

SOURCE: http://www.firstcoastnews.com/topstories/article/276613/483/Teen-reported-missing-in-Lake-City

Lake City runaway teen found safe



Charges pending against teen's boyfriend

10/08/2012

LAKE CITY, Fla. -

Police
in Lake City say they've found a missing 16-year-old they believed to
have run away from an Interface Youth facility last month.

Police
said Helena Pinkerton left the facility Aug. 16 and had not been seen
or heard from by family since then. She was found safe Friday in
Gainesville at her boyfriend's apartment.
Her
boyfriend, 19-year-old Craig Kaczmarek, told police he had no knowledge
of Pinkerton's whereabouts. Police said charges are now pending against
him.
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