Overview
- Seventeen-year-old Taliah Deshay Malie Sparks ran away from her Pontiac home on the 600 block of Emerson Avenue and has not been located.
- Investigators say she was last seen wearing a black T-shirt, blue jeans and clear-frame glasses and describe her as Black, about 5 feet 7 inches tall with brown eyes, red hair, and weighing about 230 pounds.
- Officials identified Clifford and Whittemore streets as areas Sparks is known to frequent and asked residents in those neighborhoods to be alert for her.
- The Oakland County Sheriff's Office is asking anyone with information to call its tip line at 248-858-4950 to report sightings or leads.
- Previous runaway alerts and family statements say Sparks has run away before and was later found in Pontiac or Detroit, a history investigators say is informing the current search.