Adventure Ends: Local "Romeo & Juliet" Home Safe
MIAMI (CBS4) - The young Southwest Miami-Dade couple who disappeared after their parents expressed concern about their romantic relationship have returned home, according to Miami-Dade police. One of the couple now faces shoplifting charges in Georgia
Dubbed the "modern day Romeo and Juliet" by a police detective, it is unclear where the star-crossed lovers were hiding while authorities were searching for them.
Nicole Dones, 17, and her boyfriend, Jackson Wayne Powell went missing two weeks ago. Dones left her parents Southwest Miami-Dade home in the early morning hours of April 18 carrying a few bags with personal belongings, and hadn't been heard from since.
A spokesperson for the Chatham County Sheriffs Department in Savannah, Georgia, said Powell was arrested the 25th of April on a charge of shoplifting and released on the 27th, after posting a $1,300 bond.
"They've been recovered and I just dropped them off at home 15 minutes ago," private investigator David Gonzales told PEOPLE Magazine. "I can't say anything more at this time."
Dones' parents, who enlisting media help in their search with tearful on-camera pleas, have not responded to repeated requests about reports their daughter has been returned.
