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A 17-year-old girl is missing. Sarabeth Hammond was last seen around 6-pm yesterday when she dropped someone off on Brambleton Avenue. A family friend says he believes she headed back to her mother’s home in southwest Roanoke County. He also says Hammond likes to drive back roads in the area. Hammond drives a White 2016 Hyundai Elantra with New York license plates – she lived in New York and was to head back there soon
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) – A sheriff’s office official says a man walking in a wooded area in rural Virginia stumbled across a missing New Jersey woman and her great-granddaughter.Maj. William Knott of the Dinwiddie County Sheriff’s Office says 71-year-old Barbara Briley and 5-year-old La’Myra Briley were still inside their vehicle when the man found them Wednesday. The two had been missing for days.Knott says the man called 911 and the sheriff’s office responded. He says he has “absolutely no clue” how the Brileys ended up in the secluded area.
State police said earlier that Barbara Briley was flown from the scene to a Richmond hospital. Knott says La’Myra has been reunited with her family.The two left New Jersey on Christmas Eve to visit relatives in North Carolina but never arrived. They had last been seen at a gas station north of Richmond.