Cda Teen Missing After Car Breaks Down

An 18-year-old Coeur d’Alene girl who was last seen leaving a gas station with two men has been missing for three days.

Angelique Garren’s friends say she is a trusting person who always sees the best in people.

An employee at the Ross Point Chevron station told police she left the Post Falls convenience store late Sunday night with two men who promised to take her back to her broken down car, said Coeur d’Alene Police Capt. Carl Bergh.

“We’re all torn up,” said Teena Pappas, a friend of Garren’s. “It’s not like Angelique not to be in contact with her friends.”

Coeur d’Alene Police are hunting for clues to Garren’s disappearance. Her father, Earl Garren, is posting “Missing” signs with his daughter’s pictures around town.

Earl Garren told police that his daughter left home Sunday at about 10:50 p.m.

She was on her way to Spokane to pick up a friend and planned to return to Coeur d’Alene to meet friends at Player’s Bar, Bergh said.

Before leaving, Garren told her dad that she needed to get oil for her car.

At 11:35 p.m. - less than an hour later - Idaho State Police found her cream-colored Toyota Corolla along the westbound side of Interstate 90.

The car was left well off the shoulder, near the intersection with state Highway 41, Capt. Bergh said. ISP officers tagged it as an abandoned vehicle.

Garren never made it to Spokane to pick up her friend and she never showed up at Players Bar Sunday night, Bergh said.

Garren did walk into the Ross Point Chevron station Sunday night, said an employee who was working at the time. The employee did not want to give her name.

The station is no more than a half-mile from where Garren’s Toyota was found.

“She was worried because her car wouldn’t start,” and was afraid it would get towed because it had been left on the highway, the store employee said.

Garren bought oil and water for the vehicle. Two men then offered to give her a ride back to her car, the employee said. The teen agreed to go with them.

Garren’s father worried when she didn’t come home. Her friends called one another, trying to figure out where she’d gone, said Pappas.

“We all kind of pieced it together that she was missing,” Pappas said.

Another piece fell into place Tuesday when Earl Garren called the State Patrol asking if anyone had seen his daughter’s car. That’s when ISP officials told him about finding the Toyota Sunday night.

Police searched her car and found two cans of oil inside. There were no signs of a struggle, Bergh said.

“She is a sweet loving girl,” said Viola Garren, the teen’s grandmother.

Garren attended Coeur d’Alene High School and had recently started training to be a disc jockey at Players.

Pappas last saw her friend Saturday night at Players.When the two friends parted, “She just gave me a hug and I told her I loved her.”

Garren is 5 feet, 11 inches tall and 150 pounds. She has a ring on the left side of her nose and a green, oval tattoo above one ankle.

Anyone with information regarding Garren’s disappearance is asked to call the Coeur d’Alene Police Department at (208) 769-2320.

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