Family and police ask for help finding missing 16-year-old girl with rare form of epilepsy

IDAHO FALLS — A 16-year-old woman pinch epilepsy is missing from Idaho Falls, and her mother says her disappearance is connected to different teen who has been missing for astir a month.

Gabriella Charboneau has been reported arsenic a runaway. She was past seen astir 2 p.m. Monday astatine her location connected Crestview Avenue successful Idaho Falls, wearing a green, long-sleeved belly shirt, achromatic jeans, and achromatic slip-on Vans shoes. She has shoulder-length achromatic hairsbreadth pinch a hint of red. She’s 5’4” and astir 120 pounds, and she has eyelash extensions. Her mother, Savannah Duenes, says Charboneau is of Native American/Hispanic practice pinch a ray complexion.

Charboneau’s family and nan Idaho Falls Police Department are urgently requesting nan public’s thief successful locating nan girl, who has a uncommon shape of epilepsy called sunflower syndrome. Seizures are triggered by sunlight, and arsenic of Wednesday evening, she had been without her regular medicine for 3 days. Her mother says she is worried that nan business could lead to a perchance deadly tonic-clonic (grand mal) seizure.

Charboneau is believed to beryllium connected to different runaway, 15-year aged Haydin Croft of Idaho Falls. Croft’s mother, LaceyMarie Wallender, says Croft has been missing for 29 days. He was scheduled to meet pinch his probation serviceman but didn’t show up, and his mother and grandmother, who stock custody, haven’t seen him since, Wallender says.

Croft is astir 5’1″ pinch black, curly hair, brownish eyes, and a acheronian complexion, Wallender says. She says he has a “Momma’s Boy” tattoo connected 1 limb and a tattoo of a transverse connected his correct arm.

Duenes says location are rumors of Charboneau being spotted pinch an big Hispanic antheral astatine Los Albertos restaurant, astatine an flat crossed nan thoroughfare from WinCo Foods successful Idaho Falls, and perchance successful Mobile Home Estates and Linden Park Elementary School successful Idaho Falls. Duenes says Charboneau whitethorn besides beryllium successful nan area of Leo’s Place restaurant. She near location successful a pearly achromatic Toyota Camry but has much precocious been spotted successful a bluish Subaru, Duenes says.

Recent sightings of 16-year-old Gabriella Charboneau bespeak she whitethorn beryllium walking successful a bluish Subaru akin to this one. | Courtesy photograph

Idaho Falls Police Department Public Information Officer Jessica Clements reminds nan nationalist that harboring a runaway is simply a crime.

“If you are knowingly harboring a juvenile that is considered a runaway, you request to telephone rule enforcement and study that,” Clements says. “Sometimes we spot it pinch different friends’ parents aliases older kids. They’ve sewage a runaway that’s crashing astatine their house. That’s considered a crime if you are knowingly harboring a runaway.”

Anyone pinch accusation connected nan location of Charboneau aliases Croft should telephone section rule enforcement. The Idaho Falls Police Department tin beryllium reached astatine nan nonemergency statement astatine (208) 529-1200.