NEWPORT, N.H. (AP) – Newport Police are looking for a 14-year-old boy and 19-year-old woman believed to have left the state together.
Chief David Hoyt said police are seeking leads on the whereabouts of Randy Gentner of Salem, who ran away from a group home in Newport on Wednesday.
Hoyt believes Gentner met up last week with Jennifer Newcomb, a teacher’s aide at his middle school, but said it is not clear whether the two people are still traveling together.
Police have issued an arrest warrant for Newcomb on a charge of interference of parental custody.
Newcomb’s car was found on Saturday night in Lime Rock, Conn.
Gentner’s parents said they’re worried about their son.
The teenager had been receiving court-ordered drug and depression counseling at the Orion House in Newport, WMUR-TV reported.
Letters written by Gentner were found in Newcomb’s bedroom, but authorities aren’t sure what the nature of their relationship is.
“There’s nothing we’ve uncovered that says they’re involved in an intimate relationship,” Hoyt said. “In fact, we have just the opposite – that it’s more a mother-son-type relationship.”
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