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Update: Two missing 7-year-olds found safe by K-9 unit, Sacramento police say

By Michael McGough
Janessa Pendarvis, left, and Ella Warren, right, pose with a police K-9, middle, after being found safe. Both 7 years old, the girls were reported missing from Peter Burnett Elementary School and found later by Sacramento police.
Janessa Pendarvis, left, and Ella Warren, right, pose with a police K-9, middle, after being found safe. Both 7 years old, the girls were reported missing from Peter Burnett Elementary School and found later by Sacramento police. Sacramento Police Department

Sacramento police located two missing 7-year-olds who walked away from Peter Burnett Elementary School about 9 a.m. Friday.

The two were found safe with the help of a Sacramento Police Department K-9 unit near 10th Avenue and West Curtis, nearly 4 miles away from where they went missing, according to a tweet by police.

Ella Warren and Janessa Pendarvis had last been seen at the school campus, which is south of Fruitridge Road off 61st Street, according to a Friday afternoon Facebook post by the Sacramento Police Department.

This story was originally published November 30, 2018 at 1:09 PM.

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