Comment on 7 children, 21 missing teens from Iowa found in nine different states by U.S. marshals

The U.S. Marshals Service in Iowa partnered with federal, state and local agencies in locating 21 missing juveniles and seven children. The joint operation, called “Operation Homecoming,” focused on recovering vulnerable, critically missing children from across the Iowa, according to a U.S. Marshals Service news release on Tuesday. Both marshals services in the Northern and Southern Districts of Iowa worked with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation’s Missing Persons Clearinghouse to locate children, between the ages of 4 and 17, according to the news release.