Update: Two Local Missing Teens Found

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Update at 3:55 p.m.: Tuolumne County Sheriff’s officials update that the “pair has been located safe.” No further details regarding where or how they were found were released. Further details on their disappearance are below.

Original post at 11:45 a.m.: Sonora, CA – The public is being asked to look at the picture in the image box and to report any sightings of them to Tuolumne County Sheriff’s officials.

The two missing juveniles are 15-year-old Owen Anthony Shepherd (left: driving cart) and 16-year-old Preston Lawrence Mueller (right: in center). The last time the pair were seen was Thursday evening. Sheriff’s officials believed the two “at-risk” teens took off around 3 a.m. in a lifted 2008 black Dodge pickup, possibly heading to the San Jose area.

Sheriff’s officials describe Preston as a white male juvenile with brown hair and brown eyes, 5’9″, and 130 pounds. What he was wearing at the time of his disappearance is unknown. Owen was last seen wearing a white shirt, blue jeans, and black and white checkered Vans shoes. He is described as a white male juvenile with brown hair and blue eyes, 5’8″, and 160 pounds.

Anyone who may have seen the pair or knows of their whereabouts is asked to contact the Tuolumne County Sheriff’s Office at 209-533-5815.