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    Missing Dallas teen accidentally deported to Colombia

    Missing teen Iakadrien Turner has turned up in ColombiaA Dallas teen missing for more than a year has been found living in Colombia.

    Lorene Turner tells WFAA that her granddaughter Jakadrien Turner ran away from home in the fall of 2010 when she was just 14. Jakadrien made her way to Houston, where she was arrested by police.

    That's when things took a turn toward the Kafka-esque. Jakadrien gave the police a false name and her new alias just happened to match up with the name of a 22-year-old Colombian citizen who had been in the United States illegally. And to compound Turner's plight further, the Colombian national had a warrant out for her arrest.

    The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) then deported Jakadrien in April 2011.

    "They didn't do their work," Lorene Turner said. "How do you deport a teenager and send her to Colombia without a passport, without anything?"

    Turner said she'd been looking on her computer every night for clues to her granddaughter's location, and has been cooperating with Dallas police as she carries out her search. It turns out that after Jakadrien was deported, she was given a work card in Colombia and released onto the streets.

    "She talked about how they had her working in this big house cleaning all day, and how tired she was," Turner said.

    Jakadrien is now being held in a Colombia detention facility while awaiting more information on her case.

    "ICE takes these allegations very seriously," said ICE Director of Public Affairs Brian Hale. " At the direction of [the Department of Homeland Security], ICE is fully and immediately investigating this matter in order to expeditiously determine the facts of this case."

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    • Shamika  •  Reston, Virginia  •  1 mth 8 days ago
      yes she had to learn some lessons but u adults are going so hard on her its sad!!!! how would u like it if u were her and this happened to u? cause yall act like yall were great teens coming up and i bet the ones with the meanest comments were the worst teens and you were just lucky not to get caught up like she did!!!!! so the next time think this could have been u your child or grandchild then what wouldthe comments look like????? im just saying
    • TequilaJoe  •  Chicago, Illinois  •  3 mths ago
      Thats what you get when you give the police a fake name that just happens to match a criminals name. Dumb girl learned a lesson.
    • ItsAllSoGoofy  •  4 mths ago
      I bet livin' with Grandma ain't lookin' so bad now, is it?
      • Bay Area Born 4 mths ago
        If I could give this more than one thumbs up I would.
      • tiffany 4 mths ago
        I agree.......this should be a wakeup call for all runaways........
      • Jock 4 mths ago
        Bet working at McDonald's ain't lookin so bad now either!
    • Lynn  •  4 mths ago
      I like to read the comments more than the news
      • samuel 4 mths ago
        I know it's like a train wreck. Don't want to watch but can't look away.
      • Silly Hat 4 mths ago
        lol me too...in fact, usually i find more information in the comments than the articles.
      • PROSPERO 4 mths ago
        I love how this is the only top rated comment with no thumbs downs!
    • Ryan  •  Costa Mesa, California  •  4 mths ago
      Run away from home, end up a laundry worker in Columbia. I bet she didn't see that one coming!!
      • old_flatbush 4 mths ago
        Not to mention being 14 or 15 and being assumed to be a 22 or 23 year old adult.
      • Michael 4 mths ago
        Colombia! Not Columbia.
      • nyny 4 mths ago
        lmao
    • June  •  4 mths ago
      Something doesn't add up here. The linked article says her grandmother tracked her down through the girl's facebook messages. If she had access to the internet, she could have contacted her family or friends for help, no?
      • Nate 4 mths ago
        Exactly
      • MichaelE 4 mths ago
        like i said something ain't right this story sucks no information
      • Nishelle 4 mths ago
        Not to mention....does the girl even speak Spanish? Doubt it...that would clue them in right away.
    • Teresa B  •  Toledo, Ohio  •  4 mths ago
      This girl is lucky she was just cleaning houses and not a sex slave some where!
      • A Yahoo! User 4 mths ago
        right?! she got off easy
      • FRANK 4 mths ago
        too ugly to be a sex slave
      • Two 4 mths ago
        Do u really think they would say she's a sex slave if she was??
    • meow!  •  4 mths ago
      I guess this is another example of why one shouldn't lie!
    • Super Mex  •  Pleasant Hill, California  •  4 mths ago
      To the Grandmother,I don't think you need a passport to be deported
    • Citron  •  Sacramento, California  •  4 mths ago
      There's a few important lessons to be learned here. 1) do not give false information to the police. 2) If you're being deported, it's probably time drop the false name you gave to the police and speak up. 3) Learn how to make collect calls. You can even make collect calls from other countries. If she'd have bothered to call home at any point (since she was released in Columbia, getting to a phone wouldn't have been impossible) a lot of this could have been cleared up fairly quickly.
    • MICHAELS  •  Atlanta, Georgia  •  4 mths ago
      Maybe if she used her real name this wouldnt have happened
    • QQQQ  •  Highlands Ranch, Colorado  •  4 mths ago
      New shoes to run away in $75 dollars. Hoodie sweatshirt to hide your face from the cops $45 dollars. Lying to the cops and giving the name of an illegal alien and getting deported.... Priceless. there are some things money can't buy, comon sense is one of them.
    • Maxwell  •  Colorado Springs, Colorado  •  4 mths ago
      maybe every parent should make their kids read this article so they can see what can happen when you run away from home... lol deported and forced to clean houses
    • kissmyb52  •  4 mths ago
      What are the odds of choosing an illegals name/identity. It is usually the other way around.
    • None of Your Business  •  4 mths ago
      I can't decide if this is sad or funny
    • john  •  Kansas City, Missouri  •  4 mths ago
      I bet you NEVER have to ask her what her name is Twice !!!!!
    • Miguel  •  Miami, Florida  •  4 mths ago
      Somebody tell the geography-challenged writer that the country in South America is Colombia, not Columbia. Unless she was deported to the NY university....
    • JR  •  Frisco, Texas  •  4 mths ago
      the title of the article is misleading. shouldn't it be something like "Missing Dallas Teen Ends Up in Colombia as a Result of Lying to Immigration Authorities"?
    • Shanice  •  Kingston, Jamaica  •  4 mths ago
      lies backfire, she should learn from this.
    • outsiderfan  •  Fayetteville, North Carolina  •  4 mths ago
      Guess she won't lie about her identity or run away from home anymore.
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