DATE: March 19, 2024
INCIDENT: Returned Missing Children
The Victor Valley Station would like to thank community members who came forward to assist in locating three missing juveniles, in two separate cases, over the weekend.
On Saturday, March 15, 2024, at 4:35 p.m., deputies responded to a residence on Hyattsville St. in Adelanto. According to the caller, her 16-year-old daughter left her residence because she was upset over consequences at home after being suspended from school. The juvenile requires medication she did not take with her. She later returned to her residence and took her 11-year-old sister with her. Deputies searched for the missing girls with the assistance of San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Deputy Casey Allen and her tracking-trailing K-9, Nyx, from the Rancho Cucamonga Station. Deputies utilized A Child Is Missing (ACIM) to assist in their search. The ACIM organization provides a computerized phone notification system to assist in locating missing persons. Upon notification by law enforcement of a missing person case, ACIM can call up to 1000 phones per minute in an expanding radius around the last known location. The girls were located and returned home safely.
On Sunday, March 17, 2024, at approximately 9:30 a.m., a 12-year-old boy left his residence in Apple Valley on his bicycle. He is diagnosed with Autism and his destination was unknown. Deputies immediately started disseminating the information and searching for him. San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Deputy G. Jasso and his tracking-trailing K-9, Keva, responded from Rancho Cucamonga to assist in the search, along with the California Highway Patrol Aviation Division (H80). Members of our community placed his information on the Ring Camera System. A customer at Target, on Bear Valley Road in Apple Valley, recognized him from the information being disseminated and contacted law enforcement. He was returned home safely.
We appreciate our community partners and want to thank everyone who assisted with locating these children. Because we all worked together, we were able to locate them and return them home.
Refer: Staci Parks
Station: Victor Valley
Phone No. (760) 552-6845
SHANNON D. DICUS, Sheriff-Coroner
San Bernardino County Sheriff-Coroner Department
