Authorities Searching for Missing Teen

Jessica Earnest

LEE COUNTY, Miss. (WCBI) — Authorities are searching for a girl last seen leaving the Faith Haven Emergency Shelter in Tupelo.

17-year-old Jessica Earnest was last seen Jan. 25 leaving Faith Haven with Charles C. Weaver.

She was reportedly in a black 1997 Ford F-150.

According to the United Way website (http://bit.ly/1tHftqI), the Faith Haven Emergency Shelter “provides 24-hour emergency care for children, birth to eighteen years, who have been removed from abusive or neglectful situations or have been abandoned.”

Anyone with information on Earnest’s or Weaver’s whereabouts is urged to contact the Lee County Sheriff’s Department at 662-680-5766.