A 15-year-old Lakewood girl who was reported missing has been found safe, according to a police update. Police later said Dulce Rodriguez was home safe.
The update came in a Facebook post from the Lakewood Police Department, which had earlier described Rodriguez as roughly 5-foot-5, weighing about 150 pounds, with long black hair down to her waist. She was last seen wearing a light orange dress and white Nike shoes, according to the same post. Police had listed the case under the internal designation LK26-24599.
The linked Apartment List page identifies Windsor at Pinehurst at 3950 South Wadsworth Boulevard in Lakewood, Colorado; it does not describe the incident location.
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The department's procedures document, available through PowerDMS, is identified as an SRO and School Liaison document.
The report included a police post.
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The available material does not provide details about state resources or statutory requirements.
The update says Rodriguez was home safe but does not provide details about where she was found or the circumstances of her disappearance.
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Other missing-person reports have also been reported in connection with Lakewood, Washington, this year. Just weeks earlier, Hoodline reported that a Lakewood teen had gone missing since Aug. 1.
National data provides recovery and reporting statistics for missing-child cases. According to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, 92% of the 32,167 missing children cases the organization supported nationwide in 2025 involved youth who had run away, with an overall case recovery rate of 90%. The supplied national data instead reports 305,339 missing-child reports for 2025 and does not establish the share of active missing-person records represented by juveniles.
For now, the Lakewood Police Department's message was simple: Dulce Rodriguez is home safe.
