Clarinda Police Chief Keith Brothers reports that at around 8:50-p.m., Monday, the Clarinda Academy informed authorities that two male students had absconded from campus. Both students were found together at approximately 7:00 a.m. today (Tuesday), around Schenck Road and the U.S. Highway 71 and State Highway 2 East bypass.

The students were taken into custody by the Clarinda Police Department with assistance from personnel at the Clarinda Co-Op and a bus driver from the Clarinda Community School District. The two students have been returned to authorities at the Clarinda Academy. One student is a 15-year-old African-American male from Omaha, Nebraska, the second student is a 16-year-old Hispanic White Male from San Diego, California.

The Clarinda Academy is a residential foster care facility that provides residential treatment to at-risk and delinquent male and female youth from several states.