UPDATE: February 8, 2024: Andre “AJ” Thompson, Jr. was located in Orange County, NC by Orange County Sheriff’s Deputies.
31 January 2024
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
CITY OF SOUTHPORT
MISSING PERSON – ANDRE “AJ” AMON THOMPSON, JR.
Southport, NC – On 08/10/2023 11-year-old Andre “AJ” Amon Thompson Jr. was located by the Southport Police Department after reported missing from Durham County for approximately 10 years.
Andre was found in the company of Dreama Ferguson. Thompson was placed in the legal custody of the Durham County Department of Social Services under the temporary supervision of a family member residing in Southport.
Since that date, a multitude of attempts to contact the minor child were made by the Department of Social Services to ensure the child’s care and wellbeing. The family member declined to provide the child, his whereabouts, or any information during the contact. Durham County DSS contacted the Southport Police Department to file a missing person report.
Andre Thompson Jr is reported missing and believed to be in the company of Dreama Ferguson also known, via social media, as Alexandria Bey. Dreama is known to frequent both Durham and Southport areas.
If you have any information on Andre Thompson’s whereabouts you are asked to contact Detective Ransom at the Southport Police Department at 910-457-7911. You may also call 911 or, send us a tip through our tip-line under the police department’s page, www.cityofsouthport.com.
ChyAnn Ketchum
Public Information Officer
City of Southport
O: (910) 457-7927 ext. 1040
C: (910) 267-7300
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