Apart from San Diego, Parris Island is the only other marine recruiting depot in the US. Photograph: Stephen B Morton/AP
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Two weeks after a 14-year-old girl’s grandmother reported that she had run away in early June, the teenager was found in an unusual location: inside the barracks at a California Marine Corps base north of San Diego.
Federal law enforcement officials said on Monday that they were investigating and had taken a marine with the combat logistics battalion 5, 1st marine logistics group into custody briefly for questioning. He has since been released to his command while the investigation continues, said Marine Capt Charles Palmer of the 1st marine logistics group at Camp Pendleton, about 40 miles (65km) north of San Diego.
It was unclear how long the teenager was at the barracks and whether she was spotted by other marines who reported her presence. She was found by military police during the day on 28 June after her grandmother had reported her missing on 13 June. Military and law enforcement officials declined to release other details.
The teen’s information was entered into multiple missing person databases, including the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, the sheriff’s department said.
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