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Posted on: May 22, 2019

[ARCHIVED] ELPD Attempting to Locate Juvenile Runaway

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EAST LANSING, Mich. — The East Lansing Police Department (ELPD) is currently working to locate a juvenile runaway, Alysse Imany Messieha.

Messieha is a 16-year-old female and is approximately 5’10” and 160 pounds. She has been a runaway since May 8, 2019. She was last seen in the area of Lake Lansing and Hagadorn roads and she is known to frequent the communities of Okemos and Lansing.

If anyone has any information on her whereabouts, or has seen her, they are asked to contact ELPD at (517) 351-4220, Option 2.

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