From NC WANTED Staff and NCMEC

Posted: Jul 26, 2007
Updated: Oct 24, 2007

ALL COUNTIES — ALL COUNTIES:   NC WANTED targets area missing youth listed in the NCMEC database. 

One case involves Tristan 'Buddy' Myers of Sampson County.

Anyone with information on missing persons in NC should call NC WANTED toll free at 1.866.43.WANTED (1.866.439.2683) or click on "Report a Tip" Your identity will be kept confidential.

NC WANTED supports The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children® (NCMEC).   The mission of NCMEC is to help prevent child abduction and sexual exploitation; help find missing children; and assist victims of child abduction and sexual exploitation, their families, and the professionals who serve them.

NCMEC was established in 1984 to provide services nationwide for families and professionals in the prevention of abducted, endangered, and sexually exploited children.

As part of its mission, NCMEC:

• Serves as a clearinghouse of information about missing and exploited children

• Operates a cybertipline that the public may use to report internet-related child sexual exploitation

• Provides technical assistance to individuals and law-enforcement agencies in the prevention, investigation, prosecution, and treatment of cases involving missing and exploited children

• Assists the u.s. department of state in certain cases of international child abduction in accordance with the hague convention on the civil aspects of international child abduction

• Offers training programs to law-enforcement and social-service professionals

• Distributes photographs and descriptions of missing children worldwide

• Coordinates child-protection efforts with the private sector

• Networks with nonprofit service providers and state clearinghouses about missing-persons cases

• Provides information about effective state legislation to help ensure the protection of children

  Anyone with information on missing persons in NC should call NC WANTED toll free at 1.866.43.WANTED (1.866.439.2683) or click on "Report a Tip" Your identity will be kept confidential.