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By Taylor Lane Las Vegas Review-Journal

August 22, 2022 - 3:18 pm

Updated August 22, 2022 - 6:53 pm

On Monday, Las Vegas police found a teenager who had been missing since Saturday in the northwest Las Vegas Valley.

Barack Obama Burton-Watkins, 13, was last seen around 11:30 p.m. near the 7100 block of Overhill Avenue, according to a Metropolitan Police Department news release.

Burton-Watkins is six feet, 117 pounds, and has black hair and brown eyes.

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