The Forest Lake girl, who has been missing for more than two months, was found safe on Friday, police said.
Desiray Kappes, 14, who had not been seen leaving her home on her bicycle on May 19, was “found healthy” and is cooperating with investigators, according to a press release prepared by Forest Lake Police Chief Rick Peterson.
Forest Lake police canceled Desiray’s missing person at 10:23 p.m. Friday.
“The Forest Lake Police Department is grateful to the many law enforcement agencies, organizations and people with information who helped locate Desiray,” Peterson wrote in the release. “Due to the ongoing investigation, further information may not be available over the weekend. Any additional information will be provided by the Forest Lake Police Department.
Desiray, who turned 14 on May 3, left her Forest Lake home on her bicycle around 8:30 a.m. on May 19, according to CCTV footage from a nearby home. She left a note saying she would be “traveling across the United States with her boyfriend,” her mother, Miranda “Mandi” Lufsky, told Pioneer Press in June. ‘I don’t know a boyfriend. She didn’t have a boyfriend.”
Desiray, who is homeschooled, took her black cat, Cosmo, with her when she left.
