A 16-year-old girl missing from Fairfield has been found safe in New Jersey, according to police.
The girl was reported missing on July 2 from the Elm Street area of Fairfield. Police said she left home around 5:45 p.m. that day.
The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children said the girl told her family that she was going for a walk, but never returned home.
Police said the teen turned off location services on her phone and had not been active on social media.
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Surveillance footage from the Fairfield Interstate I-95 South rest area on July 2 showed her wearing black leggings, Converse sneakers with white soles, and a blue T-shirt with white lettering.
Police said several witnesses who were there said the girl had approached them, said she wanted to run away from home and was looking for transportation to an unknown location.
Video footage also showed her willingly get into a black Saturn Ion with Massachusetts license plates, police said, which was later found in Charlotte, North Carolina on July 5.
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The driver said they drove the teen south on Interstate 95 and dropped her off at a gas station on North Black Horse Pike in Bellmawr, New Jersey.
Early Saturday morning, police in Greenwich Township, New Jersey notified Fairfield police that the girl had been located and she was in good health.
She has since been reunited with her family.
