LIBBY McHUGH - 15 yo - Crown Point IL / IN

Police are looking for a missing 15-year-old Crown Point girl.

The father of Libby McHugh, reported his daughter missing July 20
after he drove to Crown Point High School to pick her up and learned
she had already left, Crown Point Police said in a news release Monday.

The 5-foot-4-inch girl was entered into the FBI's National Crime
Information Center as a missing juvenile. She has blond hair, blue eyes
and weighs 108 pounds. Police said the girl did not fit the criteria
for an Amber Alert because she was not believed to be abducted and in
danger of serious harm or death. Anyone with information is asked to
contact Detective Larry Scott at 663-2121, Ext. 171, or leave an
anonymous message at the police department's crime line at Ext. 265.

Police were notified Sunday by the teen's father that she had called
the father of a friend and her ex-boyfriend, telling them he was in
Chicago with two subjects in a blue Chevy Malibu with Ohio license
plates.

But police discovered that the call actually came from a phone at a
pavilion in the Indiana Dunes State Park. Department of Natural
Resources officers found no one near the phone. Information on the girl
will be televised on the city's Channel 26 news station.

Police say a 15-year-old Crown Point girl has been
missing for a week after her father told authorities that she
already had left when he arrived to pick up his daughter at summer
school at Crown Point High School on July 20.

The girl, Libby McHugh, is 5-foot-4 and about 108 pounds with
green eyes and blond hair. She was last seen wearing a white tank
top and dark shorts. She wears eyeglasses, but it is unknown if she
currently has them.

Crown Point police said they didn't issue an Amber Alert for the
girl because the case did not meet the criteria, which includes a
child "believed to be abducted, and is in danger of serious bodily
harm or death."

On Sunday, Thomas McHugh told police his daughter called the
father of her friend, and said she was calling from Chicago, where
she was with two subjects in a blue Chevrolet Malibu with Ohio
license plates. McHugh's ex-boyfriend had been contacted by her and
told the same information, officials said.

Crown Point Detective Larry Scott discovered the call actually
came from a pay phone in Indiana Dunes State Park. But when
officials at the park were contacted, no one was found near the
phone.

Police have sent McHugh's description to all Indiana law
enforcement agencies through a statewide system. She also has been
entered into the nationwide National Crime Information Center
database as a missing juvenile.

Thomas McHugh said he doesn't have any information as to his
daughter's whereabouts, and Crown Point police said his attempts at
contacting her through friends have been unsuccessful.

Scott has been visiting her hangouts and friends. Security
camera footage at the high school is being reviewed, but so far
McHugh has not been seen on camera leaving the building.

In a statement, Crown Point Police Chief Pete Land said Libby
McHugh is being treated as a missing person case, not a
runaway.

Anyone with information should call Scott at (219) 663-2131,
ext. 171, or they can leave an anonymous message on the Police
Department's crime line at (219) 663-2131, ext. 265.

A 15-year-old girl, missing for more than a week, was returned to Crown Point early Tuesday.

Someone dropped off Libby McHugh at Saint Anthony Medical Center at 4:30 a.m., Police Chief Pete Land said Tuesday.

The girl's parents brought her to the police station around noon to speak to detectives.

"I don't know if she received treatment at Saint Anthony or where
she had been," Land said. "I'm hoping by tomorrow we'll have it all
sorted out."

The girl's father reported her missing after she was not at Crown Point High School when he drove there to pick her up.

A 15-year-old girl who had been missing for more
than a week was dropped off at St. Anthony Medical Center about
4:30 a.m. Tuesday, Crown Point Police Chief Pete Land said.

Libby McHugh, was reported missing by her father Thomas McHugh
on July 20 when he went to pick her up from summer school at Crown
Point High School and discovered she had already left.

Land said the details of where McHugh has been over the past
week are still under investigation, but she was released from the
hospital and "physically she's fine."

On Sunday, Thomas McHugh told police his daughter called the
father of her friend, and said she thought she was calling from
Chicago, where she was with two subjects in a blue Chevrolet Malibu
with Ohio license plates, police reports said.

Crown Point Detective Larry Scott discovered the call actually
came from a pay phone in Indiana Dunes State Park. But when
officials at the park were contacted, no one was found near the
phone.

Crown Point police said Monday they didn't issue an Amber Alert
for the girl because the case did not meet the criteria, which
includes a child "believed to be abducted, and is in danger of
serious bodily harm or death.

Scott had been visiting her hangouts and friends and posting
flyers, according to police reports, and security camera footage at
the high school was reviewed, but McHugh was not seen on camera
leaving the building.