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Police seek leads on whereabouts of missing at-risk teen
LAKEPORT, Calif. – The Lakeport Police Department is looking for a teenage girl who may be with a man she met online.
Police said the family of Lia Nicole Long, 16, reported her missing at about 4:30 p.m. Wednesday.
Her family said she was last seen on Tuesday evening in the 1200 block of N. Forbes Street, police said.
Through a mutual friend of Long, the family learned she may have been at the Regency Inn Motel with an older male subject that Long met online. The family responded to the Regency Inn and learned she may have been staying with the male subject but they were not currently at the motel, according to the police report.
Lakeport Police said its officers began an investigation with the information they received. Through the course of the investigation officers were able to locate surveillance video depicting Long and a male subject at the front counter.
Receipt records from the motel revealed the male subject was identified as Antonio Malik Walls, 21, possibly out of Richmond or Citrus Heights. Police said Walls is associated with a 2014 dark-colored, possibly black, Mercury four-door sedan bearing California license plate 7UUP583.
Based on the information obtained during the investigation, the police department is considering Long an at-risk missing juvenile.
She is described as a light-skinned American Indian female, standing 5 feet 4 inches tall and weighing 125 pounds with black hair and brown eyes.
Long currently has two dermal piercings on both her right and left cheek. She also has the words, “forever in my heart Alyssa 05/23/17” tattooed on her right clavicle and an upside down crescent moon on her right thigh, police said.
The Lakeport Police Department said Walls is currently being sought for the crime of felony child concealment.
The investigation is ongoing and anyone with information is asked to contact the Lakeport Police Department via Facebook, anonymous text message from your cellular phone by texting the words TIP LAKEPORT followed by your message to the number 888777 or by telephone at 707-263-5491.