Fairfield police ask for help in finding missing teen – NBC Connecticut

Fairfield police are asking for help in locating a missing 16-year-old girl.

Jomana Ali was reported missing from the Elm Street area of ​​Fairfield on July 2. Police said she left her home around 5:45 p.m. that day.

The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children said Jomana told her family she was going for a walk but never returned home.

According to police, Jomana had turned off her phone’s location services and was not active on social media.

Surveillance footage from the Fairfield Interstate 195 South rest area on July 2 shows her wearing black leggings, Converse sneakers with white soles and a blue T-shirt with white lettering.

According to police, several witnesses present said Jomana approached them and said she wanted to run away from home and was looking for transportation to an unknown location.

Video footage also shows her voluntarily getting into a black Saturn Ion with a Massachusetts license plate, police said. The Saturn Ion was later found on July 5 in Charlotte, North Carolina.

The driver said they drove south on Interstate 95 with Jomana and dropped her off at a gas station on North Black Horse Pike in Bellmawr, New Jersey.

On July 3, Jomana’s cell phone was briefly connected to several cell towers in New York and New Jersey before being disconnected. On July 2, the phone was found in the back of a pickup truck parked at the Fairfield rest area.

Police said they had been in contact with the driver who found the phone in his truck.

Fairfield detectives traveled to Bellmawr, New Jersey, and found surveillance footage of Jomana walking around the area alone.

Her last known location was shortly after midnight on July 3 in the area of ​​Ace Auto Repair, 132 N Black Horse Pike, Bellmawr, New Jersey.

Jomana has brown hair and brown eyes. She is 1.62 m tall and weighs 63.5 kg.

She is believed to be in the Bellmawr, New Jersey area or the surrounding Philadelphia area.

Police said they have no reason to believe a crime has been committed in the town of Fairfield or the immediate area, but are asking the public for help in locating Jomana and returning her safely home.

The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children also said her mother said this was out of character for Jomana and that she had never disappeared before, raising serious concerns for her safety.

Anyone with information on Jomana’s whereabouts is asked to call Fairfield police at 203-254-4800 or 911.

Anonymous tips can be submitted through the Fairfield PD mobile app or by texting FPDCT and your message/tip to 847411 (Tip411). Tips can also be submitted online at fpdct.com/tips.

According to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, a poster about Jomana’s case is hanging on gas pumps in several U.S. states. She is also featured in certain locations on the Ring app Neighbors to help locate the teens in real time.