Arkansas State Police issued an AMBER alert for a missing 16-year-old girl believed to be traveling with a 30-year-old man she met online.
Police issued the alert Monday for Autumn Nicole Lyon, from Mineral Springs, Howard County, after she was reported missing on Saturday. They said she is believed to be with one Adrian Garces.
Autumn is described as having long brown hair and a "fair" complexion. She is five feet, seven inches tall and around 135 pounds (photos provided by police depict Autumn with blonde hair, though it is now brown, according to police reports).
She was reportedly last seen wearing a brown t-shirt, black leggings, and white sneakers with her hair in a ponytail.
Garces is described as a Hispanic male, five feet, eight inches tall, with brown hair and eyes, of a "medium" complexion.
He was last seen wearing a blue collared shirt and jeans, and has a tattoo on his left forearm, according to the alert.
Police said the pair may have travelled to Texas in a gray Ford F-150 pickup with the Texas license plate number: TTK 1766. There is an active warrant for Garces.
Newsweek has contact Arkansas State Police for additional information via email outside of standard working hours.
Anyone with relevant information as to Autumn's whereabouts has been urged to contact the Mineral Springs Police Department at (870) 845-2626.
Between 2007 and 2020, 664,776 people went missing in the U.S. on average, according to the federally funded National Missing and Unidentified Persons (NamUS) database. This equates to approximately 6.5 missing persons for every 100,000 people.
According to NamUS, across all U.S. states and territories there are currently 25,103 open missing persons cases, though the database says in a disclaimer this does not reflect all missing cases nationwide, only those that have been voluntarily reported.
In February, Newsweek mapped missing persons cases by state.
NamUS data at the time showed that Oklahoma had the largest percentage of missing people in the country, with 16 missing per 100,000. Arizona followed with 14.2.
Louisiana and Arkansas were also above the national average. Per 100,000 people, Arkansas had 11.6 missing.
Massachusetts had the lowest percentage, with 2.7 per 100,000.
Separately, an AMBER alert was cancelled last month for a missing three-year-old boy after he was located in Arkansas. Initially believed to have wandered off alone, police indicated online that the toddler was now in a safe condition.
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