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2 Crown Heights Girls Go Missing

A 12-year-old and 15-year-old are missing, police say.

CROWN HEIGHTS, BROOKLYN — Authorities are searching for 12- and 15-year-old girls who went missing from the Crown Heights area Sunday night.

Adaliz Quinones (pictured above on the left), 12, lives on Bergen Street between Troy and Albany Avenues, according to police. She left her house Sunday, August 6, around 7:30 p.m. to go to a dollar store near Atlantic and Schenectady avenues but never returned, police said.

She is 5 feet, 2 inches tall, weighs 190 pounds and was last seen wearing a gray t-shirt, and black and pink Adidas sneakers.

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Brielle Joseph (pictured above on the right), 15, lives on Pacific Street between Ralph and Buffalo avenues, according to police. She was last seen around 9:30 p.m. leaving her home and walking west on Pacific, police said.

She is 5 feet, 7 inches tall, weights 280 pounds and was last seen wearing a gray sweater, a pink scarf, blue pants and black and gray sneakers.

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Police did not say the cases are related. Here's how anyone with information on their whereabouts can report it to authorities:

Anyone with information in regards to this missing is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 800-577-TIPS or for Spanish 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the Crime Stoppers Website at WWW.NYPDCRIMESTOPPERS.COM or texting their tips to 274637(CRIMES) then enter TIP577.

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