Missing Youngstown woman found in New York City

YOUNGSTOWN — A 22-year-old new mother who had been missing from her South Side home about a month has been located in Jamaica, N.Y., a neighborhood in the borough of Queens.

Amesha Lewis of East Florida Avenue was found Wednesday wandering in a park and taken in for medical evaluation, said Capt. Kenneth Centorame, chief of detectives. When New York police ran her name through the National Crime Information Center computer it showed that she had been reported missing. Centorame said New York police called late Wednesday with the information. He said Lewis, who is originally from The Bronx, N.Y., is in a hospital in New York and efforts will be made to reunite her with her live-in boyfriend and baby.

The boyfriend reported Lewis missing on Dec. 7. She had given birth three weeks before leaving home. She left the baby with her boyfriend. Centorame said it was strange that she was found the same day investigators here released her photo to local media and asked for the public’s help to locate her. She left home on foot so how she got to New York is unknown, Centorame said.