St. Cloud police are asking the public for help finding 16-year-old Tanay’jia Johnson, who has not been seen since she left a meeting with a case worker in the 600 block of Riverside Drive Northeast. Police say she was last seen nearly three months before this report, and that contact with her case worker stopped just two to three weeks ago.
According to KNSI, Johnson left the meeting with her case worker on Aug. 24, 2026, and has not been seen since. Police say that after leaving, she kept in touch with the case worker by phone, but that contact stopped two to three weeks before publication. A separate listing on missingandunsolved.com records Johnson as missing from St. Cloud starting July 24, 2026 — a date that doesn’t match the Aug. 24 meeting described by police, and the available information does not explain the discrepancy between the two dates.
Police say that in October, Johnson stopped answering her phone and shut down the social media accounts she was known to use. The Bureau of Criminal Apprehension has issued an endangered missing person alert for Johnson as the search continues.
What Johnson Looks Like
Police describe Johnson as a Black female standing 5 feet 7 inches tall and weighing about 130 pounds, with black hair and brown eyes. Anyone with information about her whereabouts is asked to call the St. Cloud Police Department at 320-251-1200 or dial 911.
A Recent Local Case Ended Safely
St. Cloud has seen missing-teen cases resolve before. In a separate case detailed by CBS News Minnesota, a St. Cloud teenager who had been out of contact with her family for over a month was found safe. In that case, the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension said the 14-year-old had run away from home on Aug. 8, and the agency canceled the missing person alert for her on a Thursday morning once she was located. That case does not establish any pattern connecting it to Johnson’s disappearance, but it shows that these alerts can and do end with a safe recovery.
For now, Johnson remains missing, and investigators are relying on the public to come forward with any information that could help locate her.
