Olathe police, mom ask for public help finding 16-year-old missing since early March
The Olathe Police Department is asking the public to help find a runaway teenage girl who was last seen a little more than two weeks ago, according to a news release Wednesday.
Cehara Aiko Briscoe, 16, was last seen by her family inside her Olathe, Kansas, residence on March 1. She was wearing eyeglasses, a red coat and black pants. She also took the family dog, a toy poodle named “Flame,” with her in a black carrier, police said. She’s approximately 5 feet 8 inches tall.
The family believes Briscoe may have left with a young man from Portland, Oregon, who was identified on Snapchat as her boyfriend, said Trevena Moore, Briscoe’s mother. Moore said she had never seen the young man until the detective working on her daughter’s case showed the young man’s picture to her.
The last communication the family received from Briscoe was that she was going to the bus stop for school. Moore believed the pair may be trying to leave the Kansas City metropolitan area by bus or train because neither her daughter nor the young man she might be with has a driver’s license.
Moore said she just wants her daughter home safe.
“I love her and I miss her and I am so heartbroken that she is not with us,” Moore said.
The Olathe Police Department is asking anyone who has seen Briscoe to contact their local law enforcement agency immediately.
This story was originally published March 17, 2021 at 5:05 PM.
