Missing child located near Route 2 in Wheeling, Wheeling WV
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Missing PersonAs discussed during the dispatch call, officers responded to reports of a young child walking near Eighteenth Street toward the Route 2 on-ramp in Wheeling. The child matched the description of a missing person from Benwood. Officers located the child safely and arranged for their return to their guardians.
Audio|Heard on: Ohio WV Law Dispatch Group Calls
Listen to dispatch call
01:58
Transcript:
00:00
All right, they stated (name withheld) was walking toward Second and Eighteenth Street to get on the on-ramp to Route Two.
00:07
It was a young male about nine or ten years old, carrying a backpack.
00:14
I just checked the on-ramps to Route Two near Eighteenth.
00:18
I don't see anybody.
00:20
Did the child from Benwood that they called in earlier have a backpack included in the description?
00:26
All right, that child did have on a yellow beanie with a red pom-pom and had a camo backpack.
00:38
Tip four, we'll keep checking the area.
00:45
Dispatch to 31.
00:50
Just to let you know, one of my coworkers coming into work said they passed that juvenile.
00:56
They were coming off the exit ramp and heading towards Ziegenfelder Company.
01:02
So going the opposite way.
01:05
Okay, I'm on Eighteenth Street now at that area.
01:10
10-4.
01:11
Thirty, tell me about that child in front of the city bar.
01:16
Ten four.
01:18
Thirty-one.
01:23
Thirty-one dispatch.
01:26
Go ahead.
01:28
I know you all just switched.
01:30
I'm sure your partner's still there.
01:32
It's the child from Benwood.
01:35
They gave them a call,
01:36
asked if they were entered into NCIC for one and two where they belong.
01:44
They are entered.
01:48
10-4. We're going to take them back to the building.
01:50
You can contact them.
01:53
So they can be removed, and the guardians can come get them.
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Location mentioned:
WV-2 & 18th St, Wheeling, WV 26003
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