Three 11-year-old boys from Colorado Springs who told friends they planned to run away and spend their nights in a mattress store didn’t manage even the first night on their own, according to Colorado Springs police.
They had told their parents Wednesday that were taking part in an after-school homework program at Mountain Ridge Middle School, but instead they hit the road.
All three were found safe by University of Colorado at Colorado Springs police at Meadow Lane and Austin Bluffs Parkway at about 11 p.m. Wednesday.
They were found about 6 miles south of their school.
“They were all together and unharmed,” the Colorado Springs online police blotter states. “The juveniles were returned to their parents after processing.”
Fearing the children had been abducted after they were reported missing at about 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, police talked to their friends, who said the three boys “planned to run away, steal food from Albertsons, and sleep in a mattress store (after hiding there at closing time),” the blotter stated Wednesday.
They were had last been seen by a friend at 4 p.m. near the Chapel Hills Mall, about a half-mile from the school.
