TO Jackson, Wyoming, hotel worker Missing since September has been safely located in another state, the Jackson Police Department announced Friday.

Braigene Marcel Collins, 30, of Pennsylvania, was reported missing on September 14 by her employer at the 49’er Inn & Suites in Jackson after she failed to show up for her shift as a guest service agent during the year past. Collins had worked at the hotel for the past year.

“One of our detectives spoke with her on the phone and she is no longer considered a missing person,” Jackson police reported Friday.

Jackson Police Detective Heidi Schmidl did not respond to a request for comment, although in a previous interview she told Cowboy State Daily that she was in the process of trying to obtain a court order to ping Collins’ cell phone.

Police did not specify where Collins was located, although he has a history of working in resort towns throughout the West, Schmidl said.

Did not appear

Hotel manager Kirsten Eubank had initially reported Collins missing when she failed to show up for her shift or notify staff.

Eubank said Collins had a history of calling in sick to work, but she was always responsive in the past and always contacted someone to tell them she wouldn’t be coming to work that day.

Eubank became concerned after Collins still had not responded for three days, so she and staff did a welfare check on Collins at her employer-provided accommodation, but Collins was not there. His phone and wallet were also gone.

Left behind were some personal items, including water bottles Collins often used during her shift, a creative writing journal and clothes packed in plastic bags on the floor.

Collins did not have a vehicle and Eubank was concerned for his safety and notified police.

According to Eubank, Collins was very secretive and did not divulge any details of her personal life, which made her whereabouts even more difficult to trace.

Collins also appears to be separated from her family in Pennsylvania, Schmidl said in a previous interview.

Jackson police thanked everyone who helped in the search.

Others are still missing

With Collins found, there are still two missing people in Teton County, according to the Wyoming Division of Criminal Investigation missing person. database

One of those people is 42-year-old James Daniels Jr. Daniels had been living in Teton County but disappeared in Arizona in 2021 while helping a friend move from Nevada to Mississippi, according to the Charley Project, a nonprofit missing persons site.

Daniels had been driving in a separate vehicle when one of the vehicles suffered a flat tire between Kingman and Wickenburg, Arizona, and the friend went to Wickenburg to get help and Daniels stayed behind with his dog, Penny, according to information from the Charley Project. .

Four witnesses reported seeing Daniels disoriented on the side of the road on US Highway 93 in Yavapai County, Arizona, between 3 and 4 a.m. on August 22, 2021.

The Charley Project further reports that when an Arizona state trooper arrived on the scene, Daniels was gone and the trooper saw Penny fleeing into the desert.

Also missing from Teton County is Katherine Schupp Major, who was last seen leaving her hotel in September 2009.

Major, then 53, was known to suffer from bipolar disorder and was last seen leaving the Four Seasons Resort in Teton Village, where she left several belongings, including her purse.

Anyone with information on any of these missing people is asked to contact the Teton County Sheriff at 307-773-2332 or DCI at 307-777-7181.

Jen Kocher can be reached [email protected].