Teen missing from Bluffs foster care facility is found safe
March 13th, 2015 by Ric Hanson
A teenager who went missing from a Council Bluffs foster care facility has been located in Montana. According to the Creston News Advertiser, 14-year old Dakota Cook and his sister Cheyenne were located by law enforcement in Anaconda, Montana, today (Friday). Dakota and his sister have been temporarily placed with Montana Department of Family Services.
Dakota Cook was reported missing Tuesday afternoon after his mother Carolyn Cook of Prescott failed to return him to Children’s Square, U.S.A., a state placement organization, in Council Bluffs. Law enforcement have been searching for Dakota since Tuesday and believed his mother and possibly her boyfriend Jim Strohman, also from Prescott, had him in the Union and Adams County area.
Council Bluffs Sergeant Chad Meyers said Carolyn Cook has been arrested by authorities in Montana on two outstanding warrants stemming from the incident.