A teenager is back in law enforcement custody after police said she and another teen walked away from a juvenile transition center in Dallas.
The teen was found at about 3 p.m., the Dallas County Fire Marshal tells our news partner The Dallas Morning News.
Dallas police said two juvenile females walked away from the Marzelle Hill Transition Center in the 2600 block of Lone Star Drive, west of downtown.
One juvenile was taken into custody, according to police, while crews on the ground, in the air and on the water searched for the other teen who they believed ran to a nearby pond.
Police called on Dallas Fire-Rescue crews to assist with boats and dive teams and located the teenager. She was evaluated by medical crews on the scene.
Marzelle Hill Transition Center is a 'non secure' facility in the Dallas County Juvenile Department providing care for youth transitioning to a placement facility, youth that have special needs or youth that has multiple probation violations.
The facility is a 48-bed center and is co-ed.
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The Dallas County Juvenile Department has been under scrutiny after an incident earlier this month where boys were unsupervised and engaged in sexual acts with each other on at least two occassions.
The Dallas Morning News reports the incidents occurred while the youths were sleeping on mattresses on a multipurpose room floor at the Lyle B. Medlock treatment facility.
Terry Smith, the county's juvenile department director, said the boys slept on the floor as a group "intermittently" from December through April because of understaffing.
