DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – A teen girl who had a warrant out for her arrest and was reported missing and endangered out of Daytona Beach was found safe, according to the Daytona Beach Police Department and Florida Department of Law Enforcement.
The missing child alert issued for 13-year-old Makhia Bush was canceled on Friday.
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FDLE previously announced on Wednesday that Bush went missing on June 13. In a release, the department said that Bush was last seen near the 100 block of Dolphin Fleet Circle.
A news release suggests Bush may be carrying a pink-and-black Adidas duffle bag. She was described as being 5 feet, 3 inches tall and weighing 110 pounds with brown eyes and black hair. She may also have a nose piercing and a long scar on one of her legs, FDLE stated.
According to an incident report filed June 21 with Daytona Beach police, Bush was at a family member’s house and under house arrest due to “a previous charge.” She cut her ankle monitor before climbing out of a bedroom window and her mother assumed that a severed ankle monitor would automatically prompt a missing persons report, what she said made her wait until June 21 to tell authorities the girl was missing.
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Bush’s mother made contact with the girl via cell phone around 1 p.m. June 21, police said. The incident report states Bush told her mother that she was OK and just wanted to be picked up, but police responding to a referenced address in Fort Pierce located no vehicles and no one answering the door. About an hour later, the girl told her mother that she was in a blue KIA SUV passing West Palm Beach on its way to Jacksonville, stating she was with “a white female possibly named Jane.” Bush then turned the phone off, police said.
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