FAIRMONT, NC (WBTW) – The Robeson County Sheriff’s office is now asking for the public’s help in searching for a missing teen.
Volunteers will be briefed on the search plans and split into two groups to search two different areas for 18-year-old Sara Nicole Graham
People in the community are being asked to meet at the Emergency Operations Center next the Robeson County Sheriff’s Department on Legend Road in Lumberton at 9 a.m. Wednesday.
Investigators were still out Monday night helping to track down leads in the case of the missing teen Sheriff Kenneth Sealey said.
Graham, the daughter of a Robeson County Deputy, disappeared last Wednesday morning after she left her family’s Fairmont home to drive to her Walmart job in Pembroke, officials say.
Sealey said Monday that there were “several areas” being searched, the searches were still active and would resume on Tuesday morning.
After Graham did not show up for work by 7 am last Wednesday, Sealey said that around 12:15 pm a caller reported a suspicious vehicle in a field with its doors locked.
A license check showed the van was registered to Graham’s father, Hubert Graham. Detectives then learned that Sara Graham never showed up for work.
Sara Graham’s van was found empty, parked in a wheat field on the edge of a forest along East McDonald Road between Chicken Road and Centerville Church Road, Sealey said.
A large search was conducted that afternoon with dozens of Robeson County deputies, a NC Highway Patrol helicopter and Bladen County Deputies, according to Sealey.
However, there was no sign of Graham and her family has still not had contact with her. Sara’s father Hubert, is a 16 year veteran of the sheriff’s department.
Sheriff Sealey asks that anyone with information about Sara Graham’s disappearance to call 910-671-3170, which is the Robeson County Sheriff’s Office.
