Crime & Safety
BREAKING: Naomie Ambroise, Missing 11-Year-Old, Turns Up in Yonkers
About 30 miles north of her home in Brooklyn.

The cherubic 11-year-old who captured New Yorkers’ hearts when her ”MISSING” photo was circulated early Thursday morning has turned up in Yonkers, says the NYPD.
Naomie Ambroise had stepped into a southbound 2 train at the Sterling Street station on her way to school on Wednesday, apparently unaccompanied, wearing pink sneakers and her hair in braids.
But Ambroise never showed up to school that day.
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Scores of concerned Twitter users, including Nancy Rose, spread her photo via social media, asking if anyone had seen the 11-year-old.
And finally, on Thursday afternoon, some relief. An NYPD spokesperson tells Patch that Ambroise was located about 30 miles north in Yonkers today, “in good health and condition.”
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A spokesperson at the Yonkers Police Department confirms: ”We found her — everything’s good.”
Ambroise is still in police custody in Yonkers, according to the department. Yonkers police are currently busy writing up the report on her case, but we’ll keep you updated with any further details about how a Brooklyn 11-year-old on her way to school ended up all the way in Yonkers.
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