Two runaways found safe in Tacoma neighborhood
Aug 17, 2012, 6:05 AM | Updated: 10:41 am
Two young boys who ran off after a disagreement with a female caregiver were discovered safe in a Tacoma neighborhood Friday morning.
A woman called police just before 9:00 a.m. to report two boys were sleeping on the planting strip in front of her house in the area of a 1200 N. Tacoma Ave.
Police spokesman Mark Fulghum says 11-year-old Jeffery Zupan and 9-year-old Zabian Welcome were reported missing at about 5 p.m. Wednesday.
Fulghum says they had been playing at Welcome’s house when “there was a little confrontation” and “they both took off.”
He says both boys have apparently run away before, though not for as long and not together.
“They have been gone for lengthy times previously but nothing where they’ve been gone for 24 hours plus,” says Fulghum.
The boys were taken to the police station to talk with detectives.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
