Norma Barragan, 14 MSG [FOUND SAFE] Since 03/24/09 From San Bernadino, CA

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Mar 25, 2009 6:43 am US/Pacific
San Bernardino Police Search For Missing Teen Girl
SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (CBS) ―

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San Bernardino Police are searching for a 14-year-old girl reported missing Tuesday. Norma Barragan was seen at 9 a.m. at a Denny's restaurant at Highland and Valencia Avenue in San Bernardino where she placed an order to go.

Barragan left the restaurant in an unknown direction and has not been seen since.

She was last seen wearing a wearing black hooded sweat jacket, lime green pajama pants, and black and white checkered shoes.

She is about 5'5, weighs 105 pounds and has black shoulder length hair and brown eyes.

Anyone with information call the San Bernardino Police Investigations Division at (909) 384-5615 or (909) 384-5742

http://cbs2.com/local/norma.barragan.san.2.967222.html

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14-year-old girl disappears from Denny's
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
By Sid Garcia

SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (KABC) -- Police are searching for a missing 14-year-old girl who disappeared while leaving a Denny's restaurant in San Bernardino on Tuesday.

Norma Barragan was with a relative who had an appointment at a medical clinic across the street from the Denny's on the 700 block of East Highland. She went to Denny's to pick up breakfast at about 9 a.m. when she disappeared.

"She was hungry so she wanted to go and get something to eat, so she went to Denny's and people saw her at Denny's getting pancakes, and saw her leave it. She never made it back to the hospital where my other sister was at," said Cesar Barragan, brother of the missing girl.

Police do not believe she is a runaway.

Barragan, described as a straight-A student, was wearing a black hooded sweatshirt, lime green pajama pants and black-and-white checkered shoes at the time of her disappearance.

Surveillance video from a nearby liquor store recorded Barragan in the parking lot, and that is the last time anyone has seen her.

Anyone with information is urged to call the San Bernardino Police Department at (909) 384-5615.

http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/local/inland_empire&id=6727496

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Missing San Bernardino girl, 14, turns herself in
10:00 PM PDT on Wednesday, March 25, 2009
By PAUL LAROCCO
The Press-Enterprise

SAN BERNARDINO - For 24 hours, San Bernardino police searched for a 14-year-old girl who disappeared under unusual circumstances.

Norma Barragan, a straight-A student at a school for gifted children, left her mother at a doctor's appointment at the St. Bernardine Medical Center Plaza to get pancakes at a restaurant across the street.

She was last seen at 9 a.m. Tuesday, walking from the restaurant at Highland and Valencia avenues into a Perris Hill Park playground.

"A lot of people didn't get any sleep," said San Bernardino police Lt. Brian Koerner of the all-night search for Barragan, which included a bloodhound and a helicopter.

Detectives didn't initially believe Norma was a runaway, but in the end that's what they said she was.

At 9 a.m. Wednesday, Norma called authorities from a call box on the side of Highway 18 near Waterman Canyon.

She was uninjured, and detectives said no crime had been committed. The girl had spent the night at a friend's house, and she had the friend's mother drop her off in the foothills, saying that's where she lived.

"She knew she was considered missing but didn't realize there was such an extensive search," Koerner said.

Norma was having "typical teenage issues" with her family, Koerner said, but nothing requiring a criminal investigation.

She was initially untruthful about where she had been but later admitted to making her own decisions.

"She was a runaway who got scared and was afraid to go home," Koerner said.

Reach Paul LaRocco at 951-368-9468 or plarocco@PE.com

http://www.pe.com/localnews/inland/stories/PE_News_Local_N_missing26.d29519.html