In separate cases, one teen runaway has been located, and deputies continue to search for another.
Lt. Dan Shook of the McDowell County Sheriff's Office said officers are hunting for 16-year-old Gage Duane Gersema.
Members of the Phoenix Outdoors organization, a wilderness therapy program for troubled youth, reported Sunday that Gersema walked away from a camp on Little Buck Creek with a couple of other teens, according to Shook. The others have been located.
Gersema is a white male who stands 5 feet, 3 inches tall and weighs 133 pounds. He has brown hair and brown eyes and was last seen wearing black pants, a blue shirt and brown hiking boots.
Anyone with information concerning Gersema's whereabouts is asked to call the McDowell County Sheriff's Office at 652-4000 or McDowell County Crimestoppers at 65-CRIME.
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