Ohio teen missing for over 1 year found safe
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The Highland County Press-
A teen missing for over one year in the Dayton area has been found alive, according to the Cincinnati Division of the FBI.
The FBI tweeted Tuesday, “Missing teen Jacob Lee Caldwell has been located safely in the Dayton area. Thanks to Sugarcreek Twp Police, @RiversideOhioPD, Miami Twp Police & all our partners for their work investigating. “
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As previously reported in The Highland County Press, Aug. 21, 2018 marked one year since Caldwell, then 14, was last seen in Sugarcreek Township, Ohio. Law enforcement believes that Jacob witnessed a crime on Aug. 25, 2017, and he was last seen captured on surveillance in a parking lot on Aug. 21, 2017. Jacob was wearing a dark shirt, blue shorts and black shoes.
The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, along with the Sugarcreek Township Police Department, the Riverside Police Department and the Cincinnati Division of the FBI, issued a statement Aug. 24 asking for the public’s help to locate Caldwell.
Caldwell’s page on the kidnapping/missing person section of the FBI Cincinnati website has been marked as “recovered.”
According to a report by WHIO, the Sugarcreek Township Police Department received a tip “from a female who said she had information about where to find Jacob.” Upon execution of a search warrant at a home in Miami Township, Caldwell was found “in the basement.” Also inside the home were “four adults [who] are associates of the family of Jacob's mother, Tawnney Caldwell, who is in jail facing a potential capital murder charge in relation to Robert Caldwell's death.”
The FBI tweeted Tuesday, “Missing teen Jacob Lee Caldwell has been located safely in the Dayton area. Thanks to Sugarcreek Twp Police, @RiversideOhioPD, Miami Twp Police & all our partners for their work investigating. “
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As previously reported in The Highland County Press, Aug. 21, 2018 marked one year since Caldwell, then 14, was last seen in Sugarcreek Township, Ohio. Law enforcement believes that Jacob witnessed a crime on Aug. 25, 2017, and he was last seen captured on surveillance in a parking lot on Aug. 21, 2017. Jacob was wearing a dark shirt, blue shorts and black shoes.
The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, along with the Sugarcreek Township Police Department, the Riverside Police Department and the Cincinnati Division of the FBI, issued a statement Aug. 24 asking for the public’s help to locate Caldwell.
Caldwell’s page on the kidnapping/missing person section of the FBI Cincinnati website has been marked as “recovered.”
According to a report by WHIO, the Sugarcreek Township Police Department received a tip “from a female who said she had information about where to find Jacob.” Upon execution of a search warrant at a home in Miami Township, Caldwell was found “in the basement.” Also inside the home were “four adults [who] are associates of the family of Jacob's mother, Tawnney Caldwell, who is in jail facing a potential capital murder charge in relation to Robert Caldwell's death.”