JSO confirms 9-year-old found safe

Asiah Hughes disappeared Saturday night on Moncrief Road

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – An overnight search for a 9-year-old girl who left her home Saturday night to go play with friends at her Washington Height apartment community ended when Asiah Desire Hughes ended when she was found safe around dawn Sunday.

The Jacksonville Sheriff's Office announced about 6:20 a.m. that Asiah was found asleep in a neighbor's apartment.

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The girl went out at 7 p.m. Police were called to the complex on Moncrief Road around 10:40 p.m. when she had not returned home.

Offers scoured the complex overnight and issued a missing person bulletin.

Police said the girl was at a sleepover at a friend's apartment a few hundred feet from her home and her disappearance a miscommunication.