UPDATE:
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 was located at a gas station in Springfield and is now in protective custody.
Marshals were looking for Thompson not because he was in trouble; instead, it was part of the justice for victims trafficking act, KHQS 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.
ORIGINAL:
The United States Marshals Service, along with the Marion County Sheriff’s Office and surrounding law enforcement agencies, is asking for the public’s help in locating a missing Missouri teen whose Jeep was found in Hannibal on Wednesday.
Drew Thompson is considered a missing/runaway endangered teen.
The teen left his house in Troy, Mo., around 10 p.m. on April 30, 2022.
Thompson was then seen on Sunday, May 1 driving a white 2008 Jeep Commander with Missouri License Plate EE9-V9S.
On Monday, May 2 at approximately 7:50 a.m., Thompson was spotted in Hannibal. He was leaving the area on foot where his Jeep was later found on Wednesday, May 4 in the 200 block of North 6th Street in Hannibal, the agency said.
His intended destination is unknown.
Thompson is described as a 17-year-old white male and is approximately 6’ tall and weighs 140 pounds with brown, short-cropped hair and brown eyes. The teen was last seen wearing a green hooded sweatshirt with the word “Levi” in white lettering, blue jeans, brown boots, and a small black, synch-style backpack.
The U.S. Marshals Service is offering a reward up to $2,500 for information leading to Thompson's whereabouts and safe recovery.
Anyone with information is asked to contact the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office: 636-528-8546, the Marion County Sheriff’s Office 573-769-2077 or the Missouri State Highway Patrol’s Missing Person Unit: 573-526-6178 or 911.
found at a gas station in Spirngfield il
He's in protetive custoy
shortly before 7 p.m.
They received information
Marshals and springfield police