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Runaway Virginia girl ends up at police station  

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A 16-year-old runaway girl from Virginia was dropped off by a truck driver at the Mountain View police station on Tuesday, concluding an eight-day, 2,400-mile adventure for her.

Randi Neumann reportedly was last seen on Oct. 12 getting off a school bus in her home town of Bedford, Va. From there she apparently made her way to the nearby town of Wytheville, where she caught a ride from a female truck driver and began heading west.

After so many hours of talking to the girl, the truck driver, who thought she was an adult, became suspicious of her story, and got her to confess that she was actually a teenage runaway, police said. The driver eventually brought her to the Mountain View Police Department's downtown station.

"Of all the places across the country she could have ended up," said police spokesperson Liz Wylie.

Back in Bedford, it seemed to many that Neumann had vanished under suspicious circumstances. The Roanoke Times reported that many people expressed fears online that she had been abducted, but police all along considered the case to be a runaway.

Neumann is "safe and awaiting arrival of her family to pick her up," at the Bill Wilson Center in San Jose, Wylie said.


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Posted by parent, a resident of the Monroe Park neighborhood, on Oct 22, 2009 at 6:12 pm

What a nice ending!


Posted by kanank, a resident of the Shoreline West neighborhood, on Oct 23, 2009 at 2:54 pm

not knowing her reason in running away from home..its really hard to say anything. but it is a dangerous thing on her part. lucky that she didn't fall into the wrong hands. she needs to get her act together and do something really useful.


Posted by Laura, a resident of the Cuernavaca neighborhood, on Oct 25, 2009 at 3:44 pm

I hope there isn't anybody molesting this poor girl at home people don't leave their family for no good reason. ..I hope she will be safe.


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