Police use GPS technology to find missing Hubbard Township females

HUBBARD

Hubbard Township police, a tow truck driver and technology found a girl, 10, and autistic woman, 22, who walked into the woods Wednesday night and got lost.

About a dozen volunteer searchers were also on their way to look for the females.

Kristina Getts, 22, and Hailey Zanolli, 10, both of Stoneybrook Village Mobile Home Park, were reported missing at 7:30 p.m., and they were found one hour later.

Zanolli’s mother told police she called her daughter on her daughter’s cell phone, while she was still in the woods. So, police contacted Trumbull 911 to have dispatchers use the phone’s GPS technology to get her location.

Police received GPS coordinates indicating their location at a specific spot in woods off of West Liberty Street.

Officers from the Hubbard Township Police Department and a driver from C&C Towing entered the woods there and heard the voices of the two females, allowing them to be found and taken safely from the area, according to a Hubbard Township police report.

JR Watson of Watson’s Towing was on his way with about 10 people ready to help look for the missing females, and several other people were also preparing to look, police said.

Ernie Cook, Trumbull 911 director, said the technology the 911 operators used — called Phase 2 — has been available in Trumbull County for 18 months.