Crime & Safety

Missing Girls Located

One was found in Suffield, the other simply turned up at her high school for Tuesday classes.

Area police said Tuesday that they had located a pair of teenage girls who went missing over the weekend in separate incidents.

The Manchester Police said Tuesday that they had located 14-year old Synthia Suitter Monday evening in Suffield, although the department could not be reached for further information about the situation Tuesday afternoon.

Suitter had been missing since Friday morning, when she was last seen in a vehicle at a Dunkin Donuts drive thru on Route 75 near Bradley International Airport in the company of two older men.

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While Vernon Police said that 15-year-old Breana Knighton, who had also been missing since the weekend, simply showed up for classes Tuesday at Rockville High School.

"She just went to school this morning," Vernon Police Department Public Information Officer Sgt. Daniel Champagne told Patch.

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Knighton has gone missing before. She showed up in Winsted on May 9 and 14, and on both occasions Vernon police had to drive her home. 

A one-way trip from one police station to another is 38.5 miles along Interstate-84 and state Route 44.

Police said at one point during the search efforts, they thought Knighton was hiding out at a home across the street from her high school, but she was not there when the home was searched.

Vernon police said Knighton had not been harmed.


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