KARAMJT KAUR - 16 yo - Reno NV

Authorities are searching for a missing 16-year-old girl north of town. Karamjt Kaur was last seen riding her red and silver mountain bike from her house on Anchor Point Drive in Reno last night. They later found her bike, not the girl.
Kaur is 5'7, 140 lbs with long black hair and brown eyes. Her left canine tooth is longer, and she has scar on her forehead. Karamjt
was last seen wearing a black v-neck short sleeve tee shirt, bright
blue cotton pajama bottoms, and black flip flops. She did not take any
possessions with her when she left. If you have any information on her whereabouts, call police immediately.

Reno police asked for the public's
assistance Friday as they seek clues into the disappearance of a
teenage girl who went for a bike ride and never returned."It appears foul play is involved in the disappearance of Karamjit Kaur," police Lt. Mike Whan said.Kaur, 16, came to Nevada eight months ago from East India.
On Wednesday, she told her family she was hot and left her house around
6:30 p.m. to ride the family's bike. She had no possessions with her.

When she didn't return within a half hour, the family started looking for her and then called police.The girl was dressed in a short-sleeve T-shirt, bright blue cotton pajama bottoms, and black flip-flops.Officers
searched through the night Wednesday with dogs and helicopters. They
went door-to-door talking to neighbors and contacted registered sex
offenders in the area."We still have no investigative leads," Whan said.Kaur's red and silver mountain bike was found Thursday afternoon about a quarter mile away at a skateboard park."She
had just been learning to ride the bike for the past month, so she
normally only rode it in front of the house," Whan told the Reno
Gazette-Journal.He said authorities do not believe she ran away."She's
never done that before and the family says it is not in her character,"
Whan said. "She has only been in the country eight months and it is not
part of their culture. She normally doesn't leave the house unless
she's with her brother or one of her sisters."Whan said it's
unknown whether Kaur left the bike at the park, or if someone else
found it elsewhere and then left it there. There was no sign the bike
had been damaged by a car.But he said knowing how the bike got there, and where it was when Kaur was last with it, is key to their investigation."If we knew where the bike had been left when she left it, we would be concentrating our search in that area instead," he said.Kaur is described as 5-foot-7, 140 pounds, with long black hair, brown eyes, and a scar on her forehead.

Searchers on foot and ATVs combed
fields and other areas Saturday near where a 16-year-old Reno girl was
last seen while riding a bicycle.Police
suspect foul play in Wednesday evening's disappearance of Karamjit
Kaur, a North Valleys High School sophomore who moved with her family
from East India to Reno eight months ago.Her father, Surinder Mathon, issued a statement Saturday pleading for her safe return.

"Whoever took her, bring her
back safely. Drop her off. We just want her back," Mathon said. "She is
very nice. She is a smart girl."Friends joined the family at the girl's home Saturday."We
just hope she's coming back. It's the only hope we can have," family
friend Harry Thandi told the Reno Gazette-Journal. "We're just hoping
for the best."Searchers also inspected Dumpsters, parking lots and under bridges in their hunt for Kaur."We're trying to be as meticulous as we can," said Randy Post, a searcher with the Washoe County sheriff's office.Reno police Lt. Mike Whan said detectives were following up on a number of leads, but he declined to elaborate."We've got a whole bunch of (anonymous tips) now" after news media coverage of the case, he said.Whan said 99.9 percent of teens who are reported missing return, but investigators do not believe she ran away.Kaur told her family she was hot and left her house around 6:30 p.m. Wednesday to ride the family's bike outside their home.The
bike was found Thursday afternoon about a quarter mile away at a
skateboard park. Police said they were unsure how the bike got there
because Kaur usually just rode it near the house.

The three juvenile males whom Reno police were looking for have been
interviewed. They told Reno detectives that they found Karamjit Kaur's
bike in the area of Shifting Sands Drive and Beach Cove on Wednesday
night on the side of the street, next to the sidewalk, and they took
the bike to the location where it was later found. They are not
considered suspects in the disappearance of Karamjit. Without
assistance from the media and the public, the Reno Police Department
would have never learned the true location where Karamjit was last
riding her bike. Detectives are still looking for residents or
witnesses to come forward on any information leading to the location of
the missing girl.

Searchers combed brushy fields,
checked trash bins and peered under bridges Saturday in an increasingly
worried search for a missing 16-year-old Reno girl.Karamjit
Kaur, who vanished Wednesday night while riding a bicycle outside her
family's home, was the focus of a widespread search across the Stead
area."It's needle and haystack right now," said Lt. Mike Whan of the Reno Police
Department. "The timeline is getting concerning, especially with bad
weather on the way."Much of Saturday's effort focused on Stead's industrial area, where
searchers deployed across fields on foot and all-terrain vehicles,
looking for any evidence of Karamjit's whereabouts. Searchers also
examined vacant, foreclosed homes in the area.The
North Valleys High School sophomore has been missing since 6:30 p.m.
Wednesday, when she told her family she was hot and was going for a
bike ride. Her family reported her missing when she failed to return.Police,
who said they suspect foul play in her disappearance, found her bicycle
3 p.m. Thursday about a quarter-mile from her home near a skateboard
park.Authorities reported receiving several tips about girls resembling Karamjit and
also about suspicious people in the North Valleys area.Police are also seeking
three male juveniles witnesses observed in the area about the time Karamjit went missing Wednesday.
"We don't know if they know anything or not, but anything might help," Whan said.
At Reno's Bring Bri Justice Foundation, which was established after
Brianna Denison's 2008 abduction and strangling, volunteers Saturday
handed out hundreds of fliers with Karamjit's photograph and
description."We just need to find her. We need to get the word out," said volunteer Amy Waddell. "Time is of the essence."At
the request of Reno police, the foundation is expected to organize a
private search for Karamjit within a few days, members said. They are
in contact with two national missing children organizations, the Klaas
Kids Foundation and Laura Recovery Center, to arrange an effort just
like the one undertaken when Denison was missing.Searchers
Saturday combed areas where someone might seek shelter during a cold
night and probed stands of brush in fields between Stead industrial
buildings. They looked for clothing or any other potential evidence."We're
trying to be as meticulous as we can," said Randy Post, a volunteer
with the Washoe County Sheriff's HASTY team. "If the brush gets
thicker, we try to walk closer together so the chance of detection
remains the same.""We share the frustration of the family," Post said. "The unknown always gets to you."Tim Ruff, a member of the sheriff's Specialized Vehicle Unit, searched a brushy area riding his ATV."We're looking for anything we can find, pretty much anything that would give us a clue," Ruff said.About
1 p.m. Saturday, searchers discovered a discarded T-shirt, blanket and
beer bottles beneath a bridge at the end of Echo Avenue. Reno police
were notified and Detective Allan Fox responded to examine the scene.Fox
said it appeared that youths had been partying there and there was no
connection with the missing girl. As a precaution, he asked for a
cadaver dog to examine a nearby area where digging had recently
occurred."We'd
rather overkill than miss something," Fox said. "Our concern
intensifies as time goes on. We hope it's just something like she chose
to go off on her own; but as time goes on, that's less likely."Fox
asked that people -- particularly those living near Karamjit's Anchor
Point Drive neighborhood -- report any recent changes in a person's
habits or behavior that strikes them as odd.Terry and Debi Gregory, next-door neighbors to Karamjit's family, described her disappearance as hugely disturbing."It puts a tension in the whole neighborhood. Nothing ever happened like
that around here, and it's kind of scary," Debi Gregory said. "I just
pray that she's OK."Terry Gregory noted that children often walk the streets in the area and the
idea that an innocent youth might have been snatched is alarming."It hits a real scary spot in your heart," he said.Gregory said he and his wife were interviewed by detectives but could provide little help."I wish we could have seen something. Unfortunately, we didn't," he said.

Reno police are reaching out to North Valley High School students in
hopes they will report information about a man seen at school with
missing 16-year-old student Karamjit Kaur.
Kaur's
family reported to police she was last seen around 6:30 p.m.,
Wednesday, riding her mountain bike in front of her home in Stead.Media
attention to the case prompted several students to call Secret Witness
and the detective tip line, who said they had seen Kaur at school with
a Middle Eastern male, who was older than a student. The reports said
he would visit with her during breaks.Police are asking
students to report any and all information they may have about the
unidentified Indian man, and possibly any vehicle he was seen driving.Kaur,
who moved to Reno from India less then a year ago, lived in a strict
home, and was usually supervised by her father, and younger brother.
The supervision occurred anytime she was outside the home, police said.When
Kaur told her mother Wednesday evening she wanted to ride her bike
because she was "hot," her father and brother had been shopping for
school supplies, police said. A few minutes later, her mother became
concerned and realized her daughter was not riding in front of their
home. A relative who speaks English called police.Kaur
had took off on her bike wearing flip flops and pajamas, and was not
believed to have brought any items with her, such as clothing or a
purse. Police said she just learned how to ride the bike, and typically
did not stray far from her home.Three teen boys soon
after she left her house found her bike abandoned by a busy
intersection. One boy rode the bike home, and abandoned it in a culvert.Police said Kaur has not been seen or heard from since, which is uncharacteristic.
Anyone
with information, especially her classmates, are encouraged to call the
tip line at 745-3521 or Secret Witness at 322-4900.

Police said they have received a Secret Witness tip that placed a
missing 16-year-old girl in an industrial area in Stead the evening she
disappeared.
The tipster reported seeing Karamjit Kaur around 5:50 p.m.,
Wednesday, riding her bike in an industrial area about half a mile from
her Stead home.Detectives are trying to piece together a
time-line to her disappearance, as her family said they last saw her
around 6:30 p.m., leaving to go bike ride.Around 6:45 p.m., three teen boys found her bike abandoned about a block away from her house.Witnesses reported seeing and hearing nothing suspicious.Reno
police are treating Kaur's disappearance as an abduction. She has been
missing four days. When she left, she had been wearing flip flops and
pajamas, and told her mother she was going to ride her bike because she
was "hot."Her family told police she is typically
supervised when outside the home. Usually, her father or brother would
have watched as she rode her bike, but Wednesday night, they were out
shopping.Detectives said they searched her computer and
found no evidence of on-line chatting, or arrangements being made to
meet anyone. Her classmates at North Valleys High School reported to
Secret Witness that they have seen her during school breaks visiting
with an older Eastern Indian man, which detectives are trying to verify
and track down.Kaur is new to the country, moving here eight months ago from India.
Anyone with information can call the tip line at 745-3521, or Secret Witness at 322-4900.

Reno police say they have found a 16-year-old girl who went missing last week with her brother-in-law in Indiana.Authorities said they found Karamjit Kaur unharmed with Parvinder Singh at a hotel in Merrillville, Ind.Kaur had ben missing since Wednesday after she was last seen riding her bicycle.

Police say the case is still under investigation to determine whether there was any criminal conduct.Authorities say students and staff helped identify Singh to get a lead on Kaur's whereabouts. Police say Singh was visiting Reno before Kaur's disappearance.Authorities
combed the area where Kaur was last seen riding a bike last week, and
her parents pleaded for her safe return. The bike was found a day later
at a skateboarding park.

Local Indiana police along with the F-B-I found the teen just before six this morning.
Family, friends, and the community are thrilled this did not turn into a homicide
After 72 hours thoughts can turn toward the worst case scenario.');
Still there are a lot of unanswered questions concerning the 16-year old's
disappearance, and why this case led all the way to Indiana?
“No, No English,” those were the comments from the teen’s mother today.
Karamjit Kaur's mother could not tell anything about the safe recovery of her
daughter. On September 30th the family reported the 16-year old
missing, her bike found in a ditch near her home. Flyers appeared all
over town for any information that could have led to her whereabouts.
Today those same banners were being taken down near the Sikh temple.
“Well only I care she is at home. Her mother feels great I guess that's
really good, she is at home right now and thanks to everybody, the
media and the channels,” said Gaganeev Singh, a family friend.
The Sikh community wasn't alone in its search for the 16-year old girl.
The Bring Bri Justice Foundation helped mobilize nearly 100 volunteers who
were anxious to help. Some also put up flyers, others helped in the
search.
Vigils were held, candles lit, and ribbons worn. And
although there are still some unanswered questions about the foundation
says no effort was wasted in trying locate Kaur.
“You know we are just happy she is home. As far as people wanting to...if it
happens again, just come and and be hopeful you have an end result of a
live person,” said Lauren Dennison from the Bring Bri Justice
Foundation.
Reno Police says students and staff at North Valley's High School helped identify Parvinder Singh the brother-in-law.
Reno Police say the investigation into this case continues, however,
Parvinder Singh is not in custody and faces no charges at this time.

A Reno teenager was
returning home with her family Tuesday after she sparked a five-day
search by abruptly leaving for Indiana with her 29-year-old
brother-in-law, Reno police said. The 16-year-old girl, Karamjit
Kaur, said she voluntarily left Reno last week with 29-year-old
Parvinder Singh, a convenience store owner from Merrillville, Ind.,
Reno police Lt. Mike Whan told The Associated Press. "There was no force—this was something they had planned out," Whan said. The
pair were found Monday in a Merrillville hotel room, and Karamjit's
parents flew to Indiana that day to reunite with her, Whan said. It
was not immediately clear whether Singh had a sexual relationship with
the girl, who is his pregnant wife's sister, Whan said. He said
Karamjit told investigators in Indiana that "she didn't want to go home
and that she wanted to be there," Whan said. Whan said Reno police planned to question Karamjit when she returns to Nevada. Singh has not been arrested or charged with any crimes, though authorities are considering federal and state charges. FBI
Special Agent Joseph Dickey said agents in Indiana were reviewing the
circumstances of Kaur's disappearance to see if charges are warranted. Nevada's
age of consent is 16, though federal laws for transporting a minor
across state lines for the purposes of sex apply to children 18 and
younger. "They're sifting through the facts to try to determine if anything can be filed," Dickey said. Whan
said Singh's wife had been staying in Reno with her parents and her
sister because of her pregnancy, and Singh periodically visited the
family from Indiana. The girl's father dropped Singh off at the
airport to end a three-week visit, but Singh rented a car instead of
getting on a plane, Whan said. Whan said Singh visited the teen
at her high school for the next few days until she disappeared. He said
investigators got a break in finding her when students and staff said
an older man described as Singh was visiting her. The teen
disappeared Sept. 30 after leaving her home on a bicycle with no other
possessions. The bike was later found by three children.