LAKEPORT, Calif. – On Friday, following an intensive investigation, police located a 15-year-old Lakeport girl who had gone missing the previous afternoon at a home in Glenn County.
Kirsten Layton, 15, was located Friday evening at an Elk Creek residence, according to acting Sgt. Michael Sobieraj of the Lakeport Police Department.
Just before 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Lakeport Police officers were dispatched to N. High Street in Lakeport on the report of the missing 15-year-old, Sobieraj said.
Officers responded, gathered information and began a search of local areas where Kirsten Layton had been associated, he said.
After not immediately locating her, the Lakeport Police Department said the girl was entered into the Missing and Unidentified Person’s System, a NIXLE alert was sent as was an ABNet broadcast in the Critical Reach to Law Enforcement system.
The case has been an intensive, nonstop investigation after police obtained information that Layton may have been with a 22-year-old male who was not known to local officials and who was possibly in the Glenn County area, Sobieraj said.
On Friday, Sobieraj said the Lakeport Police Department received information that the missing girl had contacted her parents by telephone, stating she was in the Redding area.
Lakeport Police traced the telephone number to an area in Elk Creek, with a male identified as Bradley Burrows who was associated with the telephone number. Sobieraj said Burrows was known by Glenn County officials to be living on the Grindstone Rancheria in Elk Creek.
At approximately 7:38 p.m. Friday, Lakeport Police – with the assistance of the Willows area California Highway Patrol and the Glenn County Sheriff’s Office – located Layton at the Burrows residence in Elk Creek, Sobieraj said.
Sobieraj said Burrows was arrested without incident for felony child concealment and the girl was transported back to her parents in Lakeport.
All indications are that the juvenile had gone with Burrows voluntarily and that she was not the victim of any foul play, according to Sobieraj.
The Lakeport Police Department thanked the community for the help and information leading to the safe return of the Layton.
Chief of Police Brad Rasmussen also thanked the officers of the Lakeport Police Department for their dedication to our community, the Willows area CHP, the Glenn County Sheriff’s Office, the Butte County Sheriff’s Office and the Sacramento Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation for their assistance in closing this case.
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