The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office asked for public assistance twice during Labor Day weekend to locate missing teenagers. Both returned home safely.
A 19-year-old Whitefield man with autism left his parents’ home in Whitefield on foot at about 11:15 a.m., Friday, Sept. 2, according to a press release from the sheriff’s office. The man has a history of traveling long distances during past incidents of a similar nature.
Due to his diagnosis, the sheriff’s office considered him endangered and entered him as a missing person into the National Crime Information Center database.
The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office, Maine State Police, and Maine Warden Service searched for the man.
The Maine State Police received a report from a concerned citizen and responded to Windsor, where the man was found at a residence on Coopers Mills Road at about 6:30 p.m. He had minor injuries but did not require hospitalization. The state police brought him home.
On Sunday, Sept. 4, a 19-year-old woman left her parents’ home in Somerville. She had last been seen early in the morning, according to a press release from the sheriff’s office at 12:06 p.m. The woman has a developmental disability.
As in Friday’s situation, the sheriff’s office considered her endangered and entered her as a missing person into the National Crime Information Center database.
The woman was believed to have been on her way to visit a friend in Windsor. She was located in Somerville at at about 2 p.m. and returned home without incident.
