Mary Margaret Sullivan, 14 [FOUND SAFE] MSG From Greenwood Village, CO Since 01-26-08

[Grande]

Family, police search for missing teen
By Kieran Nicholson
The Denver Post
Article Last Updated: 01/30/2008 11:01:25 AM MST

When Mary Sullivan Coit talked to her 14-year-old daughter Saturday, by cell phone, everything was fine.

But now the teen's family is frantically searching for the girl, Mary Margaret Sullivan, who hasn't been seen since was skateboarding with a friend in Greenwood Village.

"We are incredibly worried about her," Coit said today. "We would like to know where she is and what she is doing."

Coit dropped her daughter off at about 1 p.m. Saturday at the Southmoor light rail station, and Mary Margaret took the train to the Orchard station in Greenwood Village.

At about 2 p.m. Coit called Mary Margaret to make sure the girl made the short trip ok, and the teen assured her everything was fine, Coit recalled.

Mary Margaret and a friend, a 16-year-old boy she knows from high school, skateboarded in the parking lot of Greenwood Plaza 12 Movie Theater, 8141 E. Arapahoe Road, Coit said.

The plan was for Mary Margaret to be home by 8 p.m., but she never showed up.

The 16-year-old friend told Coit he left Mary Margaret and went home at about 4:45 p.m.

No one has seen or heard from her since.

"The thing that worries me so much is the cellphone is like an appendage for her, she always answers it," Coit said.

Coit said she called Mary Margaret on Saturday at about 5 p.m., but there was no answer. At about 7 p.m., Coit got one of Mary Margaret's close friends to call the cell number, still no answer. At about 10 p.m. calls to the cell phone started going directly into voice mail, as if the phone had lost its charge, Coit said.

On Sunday morning Coit and other family members went to Greenwood Village to try and trace Mary Margaret's whereabouts. They talked to kids hanging out but didn't get any leads.

Coit has since filed reports with Greenwood Village and Aurora police about her daughter.

"We are certainly going to look into people down around that area, talk to some business owners," said Sgt. Steve Nelson of the Greenwood Village Police Department. "We'll follow up on leads as we come up with them."

So far, other than information from the 16-year-old friend, leads have been hard to come by.

"The first thing we'll want to do is determine whether it is a runaway or a case of foul play," Nelson said.

Mary Margaret ran away in October, but only for one night when she slept over a friend's house without telling anyone about it, Coit said.

The 14-year-old, who attends Humanex Academy, an alternative high school, has smoked marijuana and has taken a limited amount of other drugs, Coit said.

Mary Margaret attended a wilderness camp in Utah in October and December after dropping out of Cherry Creek High School.

Recently, she had been in good spirits and her life has been running smoothly, Coit said.

Mary Margaret is five-feet five inches tall, about 125 pounds with reddish brown hair and brown eyes and braces on her teeth.

Her skateboard is black and beat up, with a split in the front of it. She was wearing a black hoodie, a blue baseball cap and torn blue jeans on Saturday.

"She is fairly gregarious, she seems like a fairly resilient and strong person," Coit said. "Maybe, she's impulsive. She's a teenager."

Anyone with information on Mary Margaret can call Greenwood Village Police at 303 773 2525.

Kieran Nicholson: 303-954-1822 or knicholson@denverpost.com.

http://www.denverpost.com/nationalpolitics/ci_8119289

[Claudia]

Oh, no... :(

It terrifies me every time my son doesn't answer his cell the first time for just this reason. I can imagine what this mother was feeling when she kept calling & got no answer. You can't keep them locked up, they have to have some freedom, but it is so damn scary to give it to them.

I pray they find her alive & unharmed....

[Roamer]

Maybe it's me, (or the fact that she's a teenager), but she looks angry and defiant in the picture on the right.

I hope though, that even if she "ran away" once, they follow up on it well, just in case something has happened to her.

[KittyMom]

Originally Posted by Roamer

Maybe it's me, (or the fact that she's a teenager), but she looks angry and defiant in the picture on the right.

I hope though, that even if she "ran away" once, they follow up on it well, just in case something has happened to her.

I see the same, R. This kid's got an attitude.

[Claudia]

Originally Posted by KittyMom

I see the same, R. This kid's got an attitude.

Yup. I saw it, too.

[packy]

Hope she turns up and hope that because she had run off before they don't just assume she did again.

[Grande]

Runaway teen found, returned home
By Kieran Nicholson
The Denver Post
Article Last Updated: 01/31/2008 09:50:05 AM MST

A teenager missing from her home since Saturday was found unharmed last night by Arapahoe County Sheriff's Deputies.

The girl, 14-year-old4 Mary Margaret Sullivan, is home and safe, said her mother, Mary Sullivan Coit.

An alert deputy spotted Mary Margaret at about 8 p.m. near the intersection of East Arapahoe Road and South Quebec Street, Coit said.

The girl had been on the move in the time she ran away, including spending time in Boulder and downtown Denver.

http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_8129362

[Claudia]

Thank goodness. So nice to hear about one that is found safe.

Now if I was her mom.... whoo, boy.

[PatC]

Originally Posted by Claudia

Thank goodness. So nice to hear about one that is found safe.

Now if I was her mom.... whoo, boy.

I agree Claudie (I love the new wolf pic). I think that attitude mentioned yesterday that showed in the picture was dead on.

[Claudia]

Originally Posted by PatC

I agree Claudie (I love the new wolf pic). I think that attitude mentioned yesterday that showed in the picture was dead on.

Thank you!!!

Yeah, she would be grounded until her wedding if she was mine. Her mother probably had 50 heart attacks since she's been gone.