RANDI NEUMANN - 16 yo - Bedford VA

A Bedford teenager is missing, and police suspect she ran away.

Randi Neumann, 16, was last seen getting off a school bus in Bedford near her home, said Bedford Police Chief Jim Day.



She’s 5-feet-2-inches tall, weights about 110 pounds and has long brown hair and brown eyes.

She was last seen wearing blue jeans, a white hooded sweatshirt and Skecher shoes. She wears glasses.

No Amber Alert has been issued since there isn’t an indication that Neumann is in danger, Day said.

Bedford Police are trying to put an end to rumors surrounding a missing teenage girl.

Randi
Neumann,16, was last seen Monday getting off her school bus. At that
time she was wearing blue jeans, a white hoodie, and black Sketcher
shoes.

Several emails and social media websites have said she was abducted. Police say this is not true.



Investigators
do not think she's in danger because of comments she made to her
friends before she vanished. They believe she is a runaway.

If you can help find Neumann, call 540-587-6011 or 911.

A 16-year-old runaway girl from Virginia was
dropped off by a truck driver at the Mountain View police station on
Tuesday, concluding an eight-day, 2,400-mile adventure for her.

Randi Neumann reportedly was last seen on Oct. 12 getting off a school
bus in her home town of Bedford, Va. From there she apparently made her
way to the nearby town of Wytheville, where she caught a ride from a
female truck driver and began heading west.

After so many hours of talking to the girl, the truck driver, who
thought she was an adult, became suspicious of her story, and got her
to confess that she was actually a teenage runaway, police said. The
driver eventually brought her to the Mountain View Police Department's
downtown station.

"Of all the places across the country she could have ended up," said police spokesperson Liz Wylie.

Back in Bedford, it seemed to many that Neumann had vanished under suspicious circumstances. The Roanoke Times reported that many people expressed fears online that she had been abducted, but police all along considered the case to be a runaway.

Neumann is "safe and awaiting arrival of her family to pick her up," at the Bill Wilson Center in San Jose, Wylie said.