A Vermont State Police officer and Rutland Town Fire Department firefighters continue their search through the woods in Center Rutland Friday morning around 8 a.m., based on the report of a missing girl received by police late Thursday.
UPDATED 10:58 a.m. — Police continued their search this morning for a reported missing girl with their efforts focusing on the southern most portion of the West Proctor Road in West Rutland.
Vermont State Police, who are staging operations from the Center Rutland fire station, declined to say where exactly along the roadway the girl had reportedly gone missing. However, State Police Capt. David Covell said that it was somewhere south of Wilson Castle, which is about the midpoint of the West Proctor Road.
Two residents at the southern end of the road near the intersection with Business Route 4 said they were visited late Thursday afternoon by police searching for the girl. The search focused on an area west of the road and east of a scrap yard business. State police vehicles were parked outside the former Casella recycling center at about 10:30 a.m. today.
Another resident said that searchers earlier in the day lined up at intervals to search a narrow area bounded by Otter Creek and the eastern side of the roadway. Police have scheduled a press conference at 11:45 a.m. today at the Center Rutland fire station.
According to an earlier press release, State Police received a report at about 5:15 p.m. Thursday of a “possible endangered female juvenile” on the West Proctor Road in West Rutland. According to the caller, “a female juvenile approached their car, indicated that she had been hurt, and exhibited physical injuries. The reporting party was unable to keep the child at the vehicle and the female juvenile was last seen running into the woods.”
Police said the caller said the girl said her name was “Angel” or “Angela.” She appeared to be approximately 6 years old and was described as a white female, with dark brown, straight, shoulder length hair, and was missing her left front tooth. She was last seen wearing a red skirt, white t-shirt, white flip flops, and a mood ring. Anyone with any information should call the Rutland Barracks at 802-773-9101 or submit an anonymous tip to www.vtips.info. If you come into contact with a child matching this description, please call 911 immediately.
