A 14-year-old girl from Hilton who vanished Friday night has been found safe and was back with her family by Saturday morning, according to the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office. Sophia Zipkey was last seen leaving Hilton in a black vehicle around 11 p.m. Friday, prompting a search by deputies and an urgent public appeal for help locating her.
News of her disappearance first spread through Newport Dispatch, which reported that authorities were searching for the missing teen and shared her last-seen details as provided by the sheriff’s office. By Saturday, the search had a resolution: as whec.com reported, deputies confirmed Zipkey had been found safe and was with her family as of Saturday morning.
What Deputies Knew Before She Was Found
Before she was located, investigators described Zipkey as 5 feet 1 inch tall and weighing about 125 pounds. She was last seen wearing a black Hilton Cheer jacket, black leggings and black UGG boots, details that were circulated widely as deputies and local outlets asked the public to keep an eye out for her, according to rochesterfirst.com.
Throughout the search, authorities maintained that Zipkey was not believed to be in danger, rochesterfirst.com reported. That assessment held even as the overnight hours ticked by without her being located, and it proved accurate once she turned up safe the next morning.
Case Closed, Few Details on Her Whereabouts
Once word came that Zipkey had been found, the sheriff’s office kept its statement brief: she had been located and was safe. Neither of the available reports detailed where or how she was found, and that gap in the public record remains unaddressed. For now, the outcome that matters most to the Hilton community is the one deputies confirmed — a missing teenager is home.
Anyone with information in cases like this is typically asked to call 911, a standard instruction included in the original report on the search for Zipkey.
