Two Stafford County teenagers, Ehlijah Frenche, 15, and Jerimiah Frenche, 14, have been missing since Thursday afternoon. A community request from the Office of Stafford County Sheriff names both teenagers and says they were last seen together near Courthouse Road at about 3:30 p.m. on October 22.
The request asks anyone with information about either teenager’s whereabouts to contact the Sheriff’s Office.
How to share information
The Sheriff’s Office alert lists 540-658-4400 as its emergency dispatch center. It directs people to call 9-1-1 in an emergency.
What alert criteria and national records can—and cannot—tell us
A missing-child notice and an AMBER Alert are not interchangeable. Virginia State Police says the state’s AMBER Alert criteria include a law-enforcement belief that a missing child is in imminent danger of serious bodily harm or death, along with other requirements. That general standard does not establish whether it applies to the Frenche brothers’ case.
The broader scale of missing-person reporting offers another point of context, but not a measure of this search: the FBI’s 2024 National Crime Information Center report counted 533,936 missing-person records entered nationwide that year. That is a national record count—not a Virginia-specific total and not necessarily a count of unique individuals.
The Sheriff’s Office alerts provide the brothers’ descriptions, last-seen time and location, and a request for information. They do not describe the circumstances of their disappearance.
