Pasco Sheriff's deputies are searching for 17-year-old Lizarenee Robertson, a missing or runaway teen last seen around 9:30 a.m. Sunday in the Peter Max Blvd area of Spring Hill. She was wearing green gym shorts, a black t-shirt, and black fuzzy slippers when she disappeared, according to the description deputies circulated to the public.
Robertson is described as 5-foot-3 and around 150 pounds, with black hair and brown eyes, according to the Pasco Sheriff's Office. The agency, which operates across West Central Florida, is asking anyone with information on her whereabouts to come forward. Peter Max Blvd sits in northwestern Pasco County near Hudson and Shady Hills, close to the Hernando County line, according to property records reviewed by Realtor.com.
Pasco Sheriff’s deputies are currently searching for Lizarenee Robertson, a missing/runaway 17-year-old. Robertson is 5'3", around 150 lbs., with black hair, and brown eyes. Robertson was last seen on Aug. 30, around 9:30 a.m., in the Peter Max Blvd. area of Spring Hill.… pic.twitter.com/M68yjMAZ43
— Pasco Sheriff (@PascoSheriff) August 30, 2026
This is not the first time deputies have gone looking for Robertson. The sheriff's office has reported her missing or as a runaway at least four times between April 2024 and February 2025, with previous alerts eventually locating her safely in Land O' Lakes and Wesley Chapel, per the agency's own missing-person notices. In an April 2024 bulletin issued when she was 15, deputies said she had vanished from Bluff Meadow Court in Wesley Chapel alongside another teenager, and noted both girls might have been in the company of an unidentified male.
How Deputies Search Pasco's Sprawling Landscape
Pasco County spans 747 square miles and has an estimated population of more than 674,000 as of 2025, making it Florida's tenth-most populous county — a geography that turns public bulletins into a critical tool for deputies trying to cover so much semi-rural and suburban ground. The sheriff's office maintains dedicated K-9 bloodhound units trained in scent trailing specifically to help locate missing and runaway juveniles, operating out of the agency's Land O' Lakes facility.
Because Pasco borders three major counties, deputies routinely coordinate missing-runaway alerts and search efforts with neighboring agencies in Hillsborough and Hernando counties when teenagers are suspected of crossing county lines. The sheriff's office also disables public comments on its missing-person social media alerts, a policy in place agency-wide since 2022 meant to keep time-sensitive tips from getting buried in online threads and to route them directly to dispatchers instead.
A Busy Month For Missing Juvenile Alerts
Robertson's case is one of several missing juvenile alerts the sheriff's office has issued this month alone, following public bulletins for 17-year-old Cameron Jinks, 16-year-old Serenity Bell, and 16-year-old Kyla Craig. The repeated bulletins reflect the volume of missing-youth cases Pasco deputies field regularly across the county.
Florida law gives deputies little room to delay once a report like Robertson's comes in. Under Florida Statute § 937.021, law enforcement agencies are barred from imposing any waiting period before accepting a missing juvenile report and must enter the child's information into state and national databases within two hours, according to the Florida Senate.
What Florida Law Says About Sheltering a Runaway
Anyone who knowingly shelters or aids an unmarried minor runaway — including providing lodging — for more than 24 hours without parental consent or notifying law enforcement can be charged with a first-degree misdemeanor under Florida Statute § 787.035, which carries up to a year in jail. Deputies have not indicated whether that statute applies to Robertson's current disappearance, but it remains a standing legal risk for anyone who might take in a runaway minor without alerting authorities.
Anyone with information on Robertson's whereabouts is asked to contact the Pasco Sheriff's Office at 727-847-8102, option 7, or submit a tip online at PascoSheriff.com/tips.
