POLICE: Missing Missouri teen found in 'good health and safe'
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (KHQA) — A Troy, Mo., teen who was reporting missing since April 30 has been found in" good health and safe" in Springfield, Ill.
United States Marshals Service agents and Springfield Police Department officers found Drew Thompson shortly before 7 p.m. on Friday after they had received some information on Thompson's whereabouts.
Thompson, 17, was located at a gas station in Springfield and is now in protective custody.
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Marshals were looking for Thompson not because he was in trouble; instead, it was part of the Justice for Victims Trafficking Act, KHQA news confirmed on Friday.
The act allows law enforcers to use their resources in a nationwide network to find missing people.
Since 2015, U.S. Marshals have found 2,300 missing people.
