SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — Mint Butterfield, 16, has been missing in the San Francisco Bay Area for five days and deputies are asking for the public’s help to find the teen.
Mint is considered a “voluntary missing person” who is “at-risk,” the Marin County Sheriff’s Office said. Mint’s father is Stewart Butterfield, a billionaire businessman and former CEO of Slack.
The teenager was last seen at 10 p.m. on April 21 inside a house in Bolinas where the teen lives with their mother. Around 9 a.m. on April 22, Caterina Fake discovered that her child was missing and called 911.
“Fake realized that Mint was not at home and discovered a note indicating that Mint had left the residence, with a suitcase, at an unknown time during the night or early morning. It is unclear how Mint left the area, as they did not have access to a vehicle or phone,” the Sheriff’s Office wrote.
Fake told investigators that Mint may have gone to the Tenderloin neighborhood of San Francisco.
“At this time, we have no information to believe that Mint was taken against their will,” the Sheriff’s Office wrote.
The Sheriff’s Office wrote, “Unfortunately, there has been misinformation disseminated through social media and other outlets regarding potential associates or persons who may know of Mint’s whereabouts. In collaboration with San Francisco Police Department, detectives from both agencies have attempted to find Mint, but have been unable to locate them.”
Deputies entered Mint’s information into the Missing and Unidentified Persons System (MUPS) and sent out a bulletin to surrounding law enforcement agencies.
Anyone with information related to Mint’s whereabouts is asked to call the Marin County Sheriff’s Office at 415-479-2311, or email [email protected]
Mint has reddish-brown curly hair and eyebrow piercings. The teen was last seen wearing a black sweatshirt, flannel pajama pants, and black boots, the Sheriff’s Office said. Mint is five-feet-tall and weighs 100 pounds.
Stewart Butterfield and his ex-wife, Fake, co-founded Flickr. They sold the photography and image sharing website to Yahoo for $25 million in 2005, according to Yahoo News. Mint’s father later co-founded Slack, an office workplace messaging app.
