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Teens Found, Then Run Away Again From Syosset Group Home
There are now five teens missing from Mercy First, hours after three runaways were found and brought back to the home.
UPDATE: Police say that Angelina Arias, Antanajasha Alo and Kaiden Pettaway have all been found.
SYOSSET, NY — Just hours after being found, police say a group of teens ran away away from a group home in Syosset again.
Three teens went missing Mercy First, at 525 Convent Road in Syosset, on Tuesday. Two of them — Angelina Arias and Antanajasha Alo — were found Wednesday. The third, Raymond Brown, is still missing.
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Police say that Arias and Alo are missing again, as well as two other teens.
Arias, 14, is a Hispanic girl, 5 feet, 6 inches tall and about 130 pounds, with long wavy black hair and brown eyes, with a medium complexion. Police don't know what she was wearing, and say she may be in Manhattan.
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Alo, 13, is a Hispanic girl, 5 feet tall and about 120 pounds, with medium length black hair, brown eyes and a medium complexion. Police also do not know what she was wearing, and say she may also be going to Manhattan.
Also missing is 12-year-old Kaiden Pettaway. He had ran away earlier in the week, and was found Wednesday, before running away again. Pettaway is a Black boy, 5 feet, 6 inches tall, 140 pounds, with brown eyes and black hair. Police do not know what he was wearing or where he was going.
Katrice Taylor-Cantave, 14, is also missing. She is a Black girl, 5 feet, 2 inches tall and about 243 pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes. Police do not know what she was wearing, but say she may have been going to Jamaica, Queens.
Raymond Brown, who was last seen running out of the Mercy First building at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, climbing the fence around the campus and running off in an unknown direction, is still missing.. Brown is a Black boy, 5 feet, 7 inches tall and about 140 pounds, with a short afro and brown eyes. Police do not have a description of his clothing, and do not know where he was going.
Police ask anyone with information on the whereabouts of any of these teens to call the Nassau County Police Department Missing Persons Squad at 516-573-7347, or call 911. All callers will remain anonymous.
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