Crime & Safety

Missing Manhattan Beach Teen Found in San Diego

Leah Kritzer, 14, reports that she's unharmed.

Originally posted at 7:55 p.m. March 13, 2014. Edited with new details.

Police say missing Manhattan Beach 14-year-old Leah Kritzer has been found safe in San Diego, posing as a 24-year-old. She had been missing since Sunday.

Manhattan Beach police and investigators say she was last seen about 6 p.m. Sunday in the area of Manhattan Beach Boulevard and Valley Drive, along with a male with connections to San Diego.

Kritzer was located in the city of San Diego at approximately 5:43 p.m. The San Diego Police Department responded to a home in San Diego after receiving a call from the home owner that a person who was reported missing was at her residence, according to Manhatten Beach police.

According to San Diego Police Department officers, she was in the company of a 24-year-old man who said  he drove to Manhattan Beach on Sunday after meeting Kritzer online. She portrayed to him on an online dating website that she was 19 years old.      

Kritzer advised police that she was unharmed.     

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City News Service contributed to this report.


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