UPDATE: After this story was posted, DHHS spokesman Jake Leon sent the following quote, but declined to say where the youth walked away from: “Tonight, a youth being supervised by DCYF walked away in Manchester. The youth was not a resident of the Sununu Youth Services Center. We have no reason to believe there is any threat to public safety. DCYF is supporting law enforcement efforts to return the youth to safety.”
A be on the lookout (BOLO) was broadcast to several towns Monday at about 7 p.m. for a juvenile male who walked away from YDC, now known as the Sununu Youth Services Center on River Road in Manchester.
The staffer who answered the phone at YDC said the missing juvenile is not part of the detention center, but part of a cottage that the Division for Children, Youth and Families runs on the YDC campus. She declined to give her name and said she wasn’t allowed to give information to news outlets.
The teen is described as 5’6” with brown hair, and brown eyes, last seen wearing a white t-shirt, gray shorts, backwards baseball hat, and white Nike sneakers.
According to the broadcast, he was last seen headed towards downtown.
Steve Olson, telecommunications manager at Manchester police, said the department did receive a report of a missing person, but he had no further information on it and said the spokesman for the department would be the person to release that information.
Tyler Dumont, spokesman for the state Department of Safety, referred questions to the state Department of Health and Human Services.
The DHHS emergency intake phone number was answered by a woman in Mississippi who could only provide her first name, Nylar. She said she would need the name of the juvenile to check the database to see if he was missing in Manchester.
The names of juveniles associated with the Sununu Youth Services Center campus are usually confidential.