Missing teenager found; endangered advisory cancelled

Mersadiez Shiann Rohr, 14
Mersadiez Shiann Rohr, 14

UPDATE, posted at 2:08 p.m.:

The following is information contained in a news release issued by the Morgan County Sheriff's Department:

On July 19, 2017 at approximately 2 a.m., Morgan County deputies were dispatched to an address in northwest Morgan County. Information received indicated a 14-year-old female had run away from her grandparent's residence and a vehicle was also reported missing from this address. Deputies were able to establish the juvenile had been in contact with a 28-year-old male from Sedalia. It was also reported that this male subject was a sex offender from the state of New York. This turned out to be untrue and the subject was not a sex offender.

With the assistance of Pettis County Sheriff's Office and Sedalia Police Department, this male subject was located. This male did admit to having contact with the 14-year-old runaway at a truck stop in or near Sedalia after she ran away from the grandparent's house. Information that he provided was that she was told him she was enroute to the Kansas City area.

At approximately 6:30 a.m., the Dallas County Sheriff's Office advised they had received a report of a gas drive-off from a business in their county that had occurred around 5:30 a.m. The vehicle in question was identified as the vehicle related to this missing person. Dallas County officials further stated that the runaway female and vehicle were verified by surveillance cameras at that location.

At approximately 12:15 p.m., this runaway female and the vehicle were located safe in Hardy, Arkansas. Hardy is located approximately 20 miles south of the Missouri state line on U.S. 63.

UPDATE, posted at 1:50 p.m.:

The Morgan County Sheriff's Department has cancelled an Endangered Person Advisory for a missing person incident that occurred on Tuesday night, July 18 at Smithton, Mo. The 14-year-old girl has been located.

Editor's Note: Information posted earlier has been removed from this page because updated details about the investigation provided by law enforcement have proven some of law enforcement's earlier descriptions of the case to be incorrect.