A 16-year-old girl who went missing from Winfield, Indiana, has been found safe at home, according to family members, bringing a close to a search that stretched across several northwest Indiana communities. Anberlin Brown had last been seen in Lake Station on Tuesday, and her disappearance had triggered a statewide Silver Alert and a volunteer search effort before word came that she was safe.
According to ABC7 Chicago, the statewide Silver Alert issued for Brown was canceled after family members reported that she had been found safe at home. The station reported that Brown was last seen in Lake Station on Tuesday, November 3.
Family Feared She Was With a Dangerous Man
Family members told the outlet they were worried Brown was in the company of a man they considered dangerous, raising the stakes of the search in the days after she went missing. They also said she had left without her phone or her medications, and that she has a mental health disorder, according to the same report.
Those details, relayed by relatives, underscored why the case drew urgent attention from both law enforcement and community volunteers. The teen's absence without her medications in particular appears to have been a central concern driving the search, per the family's account relayed by the station.
Volunteers Combed Three Indiana Towns
As the search unfolded, volunteers fanned out across Lake Station, Porter, and Burns Harbor, Indiana, looking for any sign of the missing teen, the report noted. The effort spanned multiple towns in the region before family members confirmed she had turned up safe at home.
A separate listing in Indiana's Missing Person Bulletin, found via Indiana.gov, identifies her as Anberlin Rose Flowers Brown under the Winfield Police Department with a date of 11/03/2026, though the formatting of that listing was unclear.
With the Silver Alert now canceled and Brown reported safe at home, the case appears resolved for now, even as some details surrounding her disappearance remain murky in the public record.
