A suspect has been arrested in connection with the disappearance of teenager Brianna Toll.
He was arrested at his Barrackpore home hours after her family filed a missing person’s report on Wednesday.
Brianna’s family, however, still has no clue where she is and is appealing to her to return home.
“We want her to know that nobody is going to do her anything if she comes home. We just want her to come home and be safe, we just want to know that you are safe,” cried her aunt Salisha Mohammed.
Brianna, 15, broke school on Wednesday and left with a male relative.
Mohammed said Brianna was not supposed to have gone to school because she was not going on her class field trip.
However, Mohammed said one of Brianna's friends texted her mother telling her that the field trip was cancelled and they have a test.
Brianna left her Lengua Village, Barrackpore home, for school.
But, a school official saw when she jumped into a car in front of the school, Barrackpore West Secondary, and took down the car’s number plate. The school contacted relatives.
Mohammed said they made a report to the police. The car which was rented from a car rental firm was tracked to Moruga.
“The company lock down the car. When the police caught up with them they ran out of the car in different directions. She was lost in Moruga and around 5 pm she ran out of the bushes and flagged down a van.” She then dropped off at Poui Trace, St Mary’s Junction. She asked someone to drop her home.
However, the driver said when he reached Scale #2 Barrackpore his gas light came on and she dropped out there around 7.30 pm.
“That is all the information we have so far. Right now my sister (Brianna's mother) in Barrackpore trying to get footage to see where she went,” said the aunt.
She said the teen used the phone of the driver and made two calls, one to the man who picked her up from school and the other to a school friend.
She said they were going to visit the school friend to find out whether or not she knows Brianna's whereabouts. s whereabouts.
Anyone with information about the teen is asked to contact her aunt 378 7489, or call 999, 555, 911 or text/WhatsApp 482-GARY (4279).