ASHLEIGH NEDRIX - 16 yo - Conway/Greenbrier AR

Ashleigh Nikohl Hendrix, a Conway teen who has been missing since Jan. 14, has been found alive.

According to Conway Police Department public
information officer Chris Harris, Hendrix, 16, was found Thursday night
— three weeks to the day since she went missing — at 31 East Republican
Road a few miles north of Greenbrier.

Harris said that deputies were called to a welfare
check after an anonymous tip came in at about 9:40 p.m. Thursday that a
man had drugs and an underage girl in his home.

Maj. Andy Shock of the Faulkner County Sheriff’s
Office said that upon arrival deputies saw a man later identified as
34-year-old Dustin Wayne Burt of 31 East Republican Road, but this man
wouldn’t initially open the door.

Deputies continued to demand entrance, Shock said,
and Burt did open the door, allowing Deputies inside where they found
Hendrix.

Burt was arrested for an Arkansas Board of Parole
warrant and for failure to pay child support. Hendrix was also arrested
on suspicion of possession of drug paraphernalia and carrying a weapon
after two suspected methamphetamine smoking devices and a knife that
she said was for “self defense” were found in her purse. As of Friday
morning she was being held at the Faulkner County Juvenile Detention
Center.

Dozens of flyers were posted on the doors of local
businesses in the days after Hendrix’s disappearance. Harris said that
CPD investigators received dozens of anonymous tips, several indicating
that Hendrix had traveled to Kentucky and others that she was trying to
get to Mexico. Investigators followed up on these tips, contacting
Kentucky State Police and checking into each of the numerous reports
that Hendrix had been seen at various locations in and around Conway.

“Our detectives simply did an outstanding job,” Harris said.