Missing Green Bay teen arrested in Florida after allegedly stealing father’s car

GREEN BAY, Wis. (WBAY) - A Green Bay teenager who was entered as a missing person by police was arrested on Tuesday in Flagler County, Florida.

In events detailed on the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office Facebook, Jayden Reed, 17, was stopped by a Flagler County deputy for traveling through a 20 mph school zone at 31 mph. He was in a silver Chrysler sedan with Wisconsin plates and told police he wasn’t aware it was a school zone, so deputies let him off with a written warning.

However, hours later the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office Communications Center was told that the silver Chrysler they had stopped matched a vehicle that had been reported stolen that day and that Reed had been entered as a missing person by the Green Bay Police Department.

The car was located at a gas station in Palm Coast and, with support from additional units, a sheriff’s deputy conducted a high-risk traffic stop and removed Reed and one passenger, 18-year-old Katie Stevens of Seymour, from the vehicle.

An investigation revealed that Reed had stolen the silver Chrysler from his father while he was away on a business trip, and had previously been restricted from driving it after Green Bay police stopped him for driving recklessly. Two or three days before the traffic stop, Reed had stolen the keys and left Wisconsin with Stevens. Stevens, after being arrested, told police that she had been traveling with her boyfriend, who she says was arrested on the way to Florida.

Reed was arrested on a charge of Grand Theft Auto and is currently in the custody of the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice in Daytona Beach.

Stevens was arrested for Grand Theft Auto and Contributing to the Delinquency of a Minor and is currently being held at the Sheriff Perry Hall Inmate Detention Facility on a $2,000 bond.

“I’m incredibly proud of our hardworking team for quickly responding to alerts for a missing child and stolen vehicle,” said Flagler County Sheriff Rick Staly. “A runaway in a stolen car is a recipe for disaster, but due to our team’s efforts a stolen car was safely recovered, a missing juvenile was found and arrested before anyone could get hurt, and his adult accomplice gets to spend the remainder of her Florida vacation in the Green Roof Inn.”

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