A Marine is in custody after authorities found a 14-year-old girl in the barracks of a California base in late June after she had run away from her grandparent’s home earlier in the month, according to reports.
Melissa Aquino of the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department first confirmed the news to NBC San Diego, saying the 14-year-old girl’s grandmother reported her missing four days after her initial disappearance June 9. Aquino said the girl had run away from home before, but “always returned home quickly.”
The girl was found June 28 by military police at the Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton in Oceanside, California. Neither the girl nor the Marine in custody have been publicly identified.
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According to Capt. Charles Palmer, the director of communications strategy and operations for the 1st Marine Logistics Group, the Marine was taken into custody for questioning June 28 by Naval Criminal Investigative Services, a military law enforcement agency, he told NBC. Palmer said the Marine has not been formally charged, and remains in the custody of his command.
The sheriff’s department said the teen has been returned to her grandmother, CNN reported.
