RAYNHAM (1420 WBSM) — Colleen Weaver, the 16-year-old girl who went missing from her Raynham home back on October 18, has been found safe in New York City, police said.

Raynham Police Chief James Donovan issued a statement just before 12:30 a.m. on Friday, October 28 reporting that Weaver had just been located a short time before.

According to Donovan, she was found at approximately 11 p.m. on Thursday, October 27 with the assistance of the New York City Police Department and the FBI.

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Donovan said no further information is available at this time.

“We are very glad to have found Colleen and that she'll soon be reunited with her family,” Chief Donovan said. “This was the best possible outcome we could have hoped for and I want to commend the tireless efforts of our dedicated officers and our partners in the NYPD and FBI who helped to locate her.”

“This has been a trying couple of weeks for everybody involved and I want to thank everyone who assisted in this tremendous effort,” he said.

Weaver had gone missing from her home around Orchard Street and King Street sometime between 1 a.m. and 4 a.m. on October 18.

This past Tuesday, October 25, Raynham Police had issued an update stating that they believed Weaver had traveled somewhere around 100 miles away from home, at the time seeking help from the public and the media from Springfield to Provincetown as well as from a variety of locations in Connecticut, Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont.

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