- November 16, 2024
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UPDATE (12:30 p.m. June 27): Deputies found 14-year-old runaway Palm Coast teen Ashley Martin at her father's Bunnell home at about 8 p.m. Friday, June 26, according to a Sheriff's Office news release. The teen was not injured and said she'd left home after an argument with her mom.
ORIGINAL STORY:
Deputies are searching for 14-year-old Palm Coast resident Ashley Martin, who was last seen leaving her Ranshire Lane home at about 10:30 p.m. Saturday, June 20.
A neighbor said they saw the teen running down the street with a backpack, and that she “may have gotten into a small white pickup truck with two unidentified males,” according to a Sheriff’s Office news release.
Ashley Martin is white with blonde hair and hazel eyes. She is five-foot, seven-inches tall and 105 pounds.
The teen has a history of running away, and has been in contact with friends, relatives and a deputy since her disappearance but refused to give her location or return home.
She left home after her mother, Amy Martin, refused to let her leave the home with a friend, according to a Sheriff’s Office case report.
Deputies spoke to two of Ashley Martin’s friends, an 18-year-old man and a 20-year-old man, June 24. The 20-year-old told deputies that the teen had texted him saying she was in Daytona Beach and that she’d be at her grandmother’s house — in Virginia — by 8 p.m. that evening.
The grandmother told deputies that she was in contact with Ashley and had planned to have lunch with her June 25, but that she didn’t know where the teen was.
Ashley answered her cell phone when a deputy called, and told him her grandmother was going to take her to Virginia. The deputy told her that was not legal and that she needed to come home. The teen then said that she would go to her father’s house in Bunnell, and call when she arrived there.
The teen was not home as of 3 p.m. June 26, and the Sheriff’s Office sent a missing persons news release to local press.
The Sheriff’s Office has asked anyone with information on Ashley’s whereabouts to call the Sheriff’s Office at 313-4911 or Detective Elizabeth Conrad with the Investigative Services Division at 586-4844 in reference to case number 2015-64672.
