RSS18 Year Old Lena Donabedian Missing Since 10/27/14 in Tujunga, CA (Update: Found in Palmdale Safe, Returned to Parents)
18 year old Lena Donabedian has been missing since Monday, October 27, 2014 in Tujunga, CA. Lena Donabedian was last seen leaving her high school around 2 pm on Monday and getting into a light colored, 4-door, car with two Latino men. Lena has brown hair and brown eyes, 5 feet 2 inches tall, weighs about 135 pounds and was last seen wearing khaki colored pants.
The teen’s family said Donabedian was last seen around 2 p.m. on Monday after leaving her high school in the 10600 block of Plainview Avenue in Tujunga.
Witnesses said she got into a light colored, 4-door, sedan. Two Latinos were also reportedly in the car.
The missing girl has brown hair and brown eyes. Donabedian is 5 feet 2 inches tall and weighs about 135 pounds. She was last seen wearing khaki colored pants.
UPDATE I: LAPD searches for missing Tujunga teen last seen Monday.
Donabedian’s mother, Sosi, said she was very concerned for her daughter’s safety. She has never run away and is very close with her family, she said.
“She’s with us most of the time, weekends and after school,” she said. “She hardly goes out with friends.”
Donabedian recently met a guy “in secret” online via Instagram — whom she told friends was her new boyfriend — and the two would chat online at night, said family friend Michael DeWitte of Valley Village. Her friends recognized him from photos he posted online as the passenger in the vehicle of the car that she entered after school on Monday, DeWitte said.
“All of a sudden on Monday, he shows up as a passenger in this car,” DeWitte said. “She tells her friends, ‘I’ll be gone for a little bit and then I’ll be home,’ and that was the last we heard from her.”
While Donabedian got into the car voluntarily, DeWitte and her family fear she is being held against her will.
Anyone who has seen Donabedian or has information on her whereabouts is asked to contact Detective Carlton of LAPD’s Missing Persons Unit at (213) 996-1800.
UPDATE II: Found Safe in Palmdale, Returned to Parents.
Donabedian told sheriff’s deputies Saturday that she went with two friends who were going to visit family members in Palmdale and that they dropped her off at her boyfriend’s house in the same city, said Sgt. Anthony Gunn, who was acting as watch sergeant for the Los Angeles County sheriff’s Palmdale station on Sunday morning. She told deputies that “she attempted to contact her mom on Wednesday using her boyfriend’s phone” but “she was unable to contact her” for reasons that were unclear to Gunn, he said.
Donabedian called her mother on Saturday night “because she wanted to go home” and met her parents at the sheriff’s station, Gunn said.
Donabedian, who was interviewed by two different deputies, did not allege any foul play, he said.
Family friend Michael DeWitte said Lena was happy to be reunited with her family.
“The entire family was extremely relieved and extremely happy to see her,” he said early Sunday. “She’s doing well.”
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Thank GOD she is safe. An online boyfriend that mom and dad do not know is a dangerous choice.
I hope the police and parents had a strong statement about this foolish behavior.