{"id":209091,"date":"2026-06-03T03:17:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T03:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/209091\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T03:17:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T03:17:09","slug":"runaway-teen-from-spring-township-found-safe-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/209091\/","title":{"rendered":"Runaway teen from Spring Township found safe, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/003DUIdemonstration.JPG\"   width=\"1200\" height=\"674\" title=\"A Spring Township police patrol car.\" alt=\"A Spring Township police patrol car.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        A Spring Township police patrol car.<\/p>\n<p>                Abby Drey<\/p>\n<p>            adrey@centredaily.com<\/p>\n<p>6:55 p.m. June 2 update: The teen was found safe, Spring Township police posted on Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>Spring Township police are asking for the public\u2019s assistance in locating a 14-year-old runaway boy from Pleasant Gap.<\/p>\n<p>In <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/search\/top?q=spring+township+police+department\">a Facebook post<\/a>, police initially wrote that Cooper Smith was last seen around midnight Monday at his home in the Steeplechase neighborhood. In an update, they wrote that he was seen at 5 a.m. Tuesday at Burkholder\u2019s in Spring Mills.<\/p>\n<p>A description of what he may be wearing was not provided, but police wrote that he could have a purple bike and sleeping bag with him.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information about his whereabouts should call Spring Township police at 1-800-479-0050.<\/p>\n<p class=\"summary gray\">This story was originally published June 2, 2026 at 4:26 PM.<\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.centredaily.com\/profile\/217964130\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Jess.JPG\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" alt=\"Profile Image of Jessica McAllister\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                <a class=\"author-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.centredaily.com\/profile\/217964130\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jessica McAllister<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    Centre Daily Times<\/p>\n<p>            Jessica McAllister has been the executive editor of the Centre Daily Times since 2019. She previously worked as a reporter at daily newspapers in New York and Colorado.\n            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Spring Township police patrol car. Abby Drey adrey@centredaily.com 6:55 p.m. June 2 update: The teen was found&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209092,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":["post-209091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}