DCS told Chandler PD to put missing teenager in jail after she was found

When Chandler police rescued a missing 14-year-old Kansas girl in a hotel, public records reveal the Department of Child Safety declined to take emergency custody of the teen, instead directing police to book her into the Maricopa County Durango Juvenile Jail Facility while travel arrangements were made.

“We immediately got her the resources and where she needed to be,” Chandler Police Sergeant Aaron Lowe said during an interview last month. “That was not DCS.”

DCS cites policy requirements

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