Oakland County Sheriff’s deputies are asking for the public’s help in finding a Rochester Hills teenager who didn’t return home from school last Friday.

Janella Arlene Nicholas, 17, was seen getting off the school bus at around 3 p.m. on Nov. 7 but rather than going home detectives believe she then got into an older model Jeep Cherokee with an unidentified person and left the area. Her father contacted deputies Friday to report her missing.

It’s believed she may be on the west side of the state, the sheriff’s office said.

Janella is a senior at Rochester Community Schools’ Alternative Center for Education, known as ACE. She’s 5 feet 5 inches tall, weighs 135 pounds and has brown hair and brown eyes, the sheriff’s office said.

Anyone who knows where Janella Nicholas is or may have seen

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