Pasco County sheriff's deputies are asking for the public's help finding a 14-year-old girl who disappeared from Land O' Lakes early Sunday morning. Arabella Degennaro was last seen around midnight in the Martha Lane area, and investigators say they currently have no idea what she was wearing when she vanished.
According to tampafp.com, deputies are classifying Degennaro as a runaway. She is described as standing 5 feet tall and weighing approximately 100 pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes. The outlet reports that it is currently unknown what clothing she was wearing at the time she went missing, leaving searchers with a physical description but no visual details to help the public spot her.
The Pasco Sheriff
account shared the same appeal Sunday, repeating the girl's description and the Martha Lane location in Land O' Lakes. Anyone with information is being urged to contact the Pasco Sheriff's Office non-emergency line at 727-847-8102, option 7, rather than calling 911 unless there's an immediate emergency.
Conflicting Agency Pages Add Confusion
Separate pages on the Pasco Sheriff's Office's own news site complicate the picture. One official page states plainly that “Degenaro was found and is safe,” but that same page also describes her as a missing/runaway 14-year-old weighing around 95 pounds and lists a last-seen date of Dec. 16 around 2:30 p.m. in the Martha Lane area — details that don't line up cleanly with Sunday's report.
A second official page from the same agency site identifies Arabella Degennaro as 13 years old, weighing around 100 pounds, and last seen Dec. 16 around 2:30 p.m. in the Martha Lane area. That listing describes her as wearing a light-colored shirt and light-colored jeans — clothing details that stand in contrast to Sunday's report, which says her outfit was unknown. The discrepancies in age, weight and clothing across these pages make it impossible to say with certainty how, or whether, they connect to the girl deputies were searching for early Sunday.
What Deputies Are Asking Of The Public
For now, the most recent and specific account of the search comes from Sunday's report, which places Degennaro near Martha Lane in Land O' Lakes around midnight. Deputies have not released information about the circumstances surrounding her disappearance.
Residents in the Land O' Lakes area who may have seen a 14-year-old girl matching the description — 5 feet tall, about 100 pounds, brown hair and brown eyes — are asked to reach out to the Pasco Sheriff's Office through its non-emergency line. No further updates on the search had been detailed at the time of the report from tampafp.com.
