By Tammy Moore Teague
Waldron teen, Shayla Smallwood, 14, was reunited with her family in the early morning hours on Friday, October 19. She had been missing since 2 p.m. on Wednesday afternoon in an apparent kidnapping by the girl’s biological mother.
Authorities were able to locate the area Smallwood had been taken to by pinging her cell phone. That showed her location of the last signal the phone received to have been in the Oklahoma City area.
“She kidnaped her and then got scared when the cops up here starting looking for her,” stated Smallwood’s mother, Mindi. “She dropped her off on the side of the road in downtown Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.”
Thankfully, the teen was reunited with her family around 3 a.m. this morning.