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Police locate Massena teenage runaways, one jailed for child endangerment

Posted 12/18/14

MASSENA -- Two teenage runaways reported missing were located Wednesday night and one of them is jailed on a child endangerment charge. Jacob F. Cullen-Lazore, 17, and Alyssa L. Newcombe, 14, had not …

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Police locate Massena teenage runaways, one jailed for child endangerment

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MASSENA -- Two teenage runaways reported missing were located Wednesday night and one of them is jailed on a child endangerment charge.

Jacob F. Cullen-Lazore, 17, and Alyssa L. Newcombe, 14, had not showed up to school Tuesday and were reported missing later that day.

Massena police said St. Lawrence County Sheriff’s deputies found them in Ogdensburg and brought them back to Massena.

The Sheriff’s office said they don’t have any record of where they were found or how deputies managed to locate them.

Cullen-Lazore was charged with a misdemeanor count of endangering the welfare of a child upon his return to Massena. He was arraigned in Massena court and sent to the St. Lawrence County Correctional Facility, Canton in lieu of $500 bail.

Town Justice Gerald Sharlow also signed a stay-away order of protection barring Cullen-Lazore from going near Newcombe. Police said they are boyfriend and girlfriend.

On Wednesday, Massena Police Sgt. Adam Love said that Cullen-Lazore picked up Newcombe for school on Tuesday and they ditched his car in the Massena High School parking lot.

“We found out they went to Price Chopper and were picked up on a commuter bus and brought to Price Chopper in Ogdensburg,” Love said.

From there, they took a taxi to a residence just outside the city limits. Police believed they may have been at Belmont Courts.

"We appreciate the assistance from the public, social media, local newspapers, family and from all the other law enforcements agencies that assisted in this case," Love said on Thursday.