Amiya Hoopengarner’s dad picked his daughter up early April 29.
A woman whose son is friends with Hoopengarner knew her location and said something to his mother, who called Hoopengarner’s father, Chief Deputy Al Kisner of the Monongalia County Sheriff’s Department said.
Officers with the Morgantown Police Department went to a home in the Suncrest area at 3:34 a.m., after getting an anonymous tip that she was there, according to Deputy Chief Eric Powell.
After searching the house, Hoopengarner was found and taken to the Monongalia County Sheriff’s Department, Powell said.
Hoopengarner was in no danger and was still in Monongalia County, Kisner said.
On Tuesday, police asked for the public’s help in locating her because she was missing for so long without contact with her family.
The teen had been missing for 19 days.
Before her father picked her up early April 29, Amiya Hoopengarner, 16, had last been seen about 1 a.m. April 9 at her aunt’s house on Sugar Grove Road, Chief Deputy Al Kisner of the Monongalia County Sheriff’s Department said. Her father reported her missing that afternoon.
Hoopengarner has lived in Hagerstown, Md., and Morgantown. She has visited friends in Asheville, N.C., Kisner said.
Her dad had reached out to her on social media and had not heard back from her. He’d also added money to and monitored a re-loadable card which she uses for food but it had not been used, Kisner said.
