RILEY COUNTY —For the second time in August, the Riley County Police Department issued an alert for a runaway juvenile identified as 14-year-old Patrick Chizek of Manhattan.
Just before 2p.m. Tuesday he was reported missing from Blue Valley High School in Randolph, according to a social media report from the RCPD.
Around 8:00 p.m., officers obtained a video of Chizek heading south from the school on foot around the time he was last seen.
Chizek was spotted around the same time in a cornfield near Riley. Shortly after midnight, Chizek was located safely at the Short Stop gas station in Riley.
He was processed through juvenile intake and released into the care of his parents. On August 8, he was also reported missing and located just before 9p.m. that evening, according to the RCPD.
The RCPD thanked the Riley County Fire District #1, Pottawatomie County Sheriff's Office, U.S. Army Corp of Engineers and all the citizen volunteers who helped during the search.