GABRELLE DEPUTY - 17 yo - McAlester/Baytown TX

Local police have joined the search for a missing Texas teenager who is believed to have returned to McAlester.

McAlester police are now assisting police in Baytown, Texas, in the search for
Gabrelle Deputy, 17, who is reported to have run away from home on Oct.
31.
Police officer Dillon Munholland has been trying to locate the missing girl, said McAlester Police Det. Capt. Don Hass.

“She’s on the National Crime Information Center” which lists runaways and missing persons, Hass said.

Crime Stoppers will offer a reward for any information that leads to locating
the missing teen, Hass said this morning. Callers can remain anonymous
and can contact Crime Stoppers at 1 (800) 222-8477.

Baytown Police Det. Iveleth Hernandez said today that the teenager was last
known to have been seen in Baytown on Oct. 30 and that she was reported
missing on Oct. 31.

“She left a note saying she’s going home to
McAlester to live with her mother,” Hernandez said. She lived with her
father in Baytown, according to police.

“She’s 17, technically, she’s considered an adult” in Texas, Hernandez said. However, “In
Texas, parents are responsible for their children until they turn 18 or
finish high school, whichever is last,” Hernandez said.

She described the missing teen as five feet, four inches tall, weighing 125 pounds, with a fair complexion and a slim build,

William Roberts, who identified himself as Deputy’s father, reported the
teenager missing and also contacted the News-Capital about the matter.

Roberts said that the family had once lived in McAlester and that Deputy still
has other friends and family, including her mother, in the city. He
said he has a court order preventing her from having unsupervised
contact with one of the family members in McAlester. She is to have
absolutely no contact with another family member, Roberts said,

He said it’s also been confirmed that his daughter has been in McAlester in the past few days.

“We lived for three years on East Tyler,” Roberts said. He said he moved to
Baytown, which is near Houston, in connection with his job.

Roberts said he thought his daughter was in her room when he got a phone call
from one of her friends, who said his daughter had phoned her from a
blocked number.

Roberts said the girl gave him a message to go
into his daughter’s room — where he thought she was asleep. Inside, he
found the room empty and a note telling him she was OK, he said.

It was later confirmed that his daughter obtained a bus ticket from
Baytown at 1:50 a.m. and arrived in McAlester at 10:45 a.m. on Oct. 31,
he said.

He said the last confirmed sighting of her was at the
bus station in McAlester, although he’s also heard reports that she had
been seen at a store in McAlester.

In addition to Crime Stoppers, anyone with any information can also contact the McAlester
Police Department at 423-1212, Hass said

A teenager who had been reported as a missing person by her father in Texas is OK, according to McAlester Campus police.

Gabrelle
Deputy, 17, had been reported as a missing person by her father on Oct.
31 in Baytown, Texas, said Baytown Police Det. Iveleth Hernandez.

“She
left a note saying she’s going home to McAlester to live with her
mother,” Hernandez said earlier this week. She lived with her father in
Baytown, according to police.

“She’s 17, technically, she’s
considered an adult” in Texas, Hernandez had said. However, “In Texas,
parents are responsible for their children until they turn 18 or finish
high school, whichever is last,” she added.

McAlester police were asked to aid in the search for the teen.

After
an article about the search appeared in the News-Capital, the girl
voluntarily came to the McAlester Police Department with family friends
on Tuesday, according to police.

Campus Police Lt. Debbie Burrows said the Campus Police became involved at the request of the McAlester Police Department.

Meanwhile,
the girl’s father, William Roberts, had traveled to McAlester to try
and find his daughter, police said. “We mediated communication between
the father and child,” Burrows said.

“She came to the police department and her dad came in,” said Burrows.

“She was safe. She is staying with a family here.”

Burrows said the girl had previously attended McAlester Public Schools and wanted to go to school here again.

According
to the agreement between family members, the girl will be allowed to
remain in McAlester and enroll in McAlester Public Schools, said
Burrows.