FOUND: Le'Quanda Robinson
Status Update
Le'Quanda Robinson has been found and is safe. The Find Me Project has confirmed this with local authorities. Thank you to everyone who has helped spread awareness.
Case Information
Name: Le'Quanda Robinson
Missing From: Kannapolis, North Carolina
Biological Sex: Female
Circumstances of Disappearance
There's a security camera outside a home on a quiet street in Kannapolis. On February 2, 2025, it recorded something a mother has now watched more times than she can count: her sixteen-year-old daughter walking away on foot, then possibly climbing into the cab of a tractor-trailer.
It is also, in a case with almost nothing else certain about it, the detail that makes the story impossible to file away as routine. Because this was not the first time Le'Quanda had disappeared. It's the second. And the space between those two disappearances is where this story actually lives.
Le'Quanda was last seen at her residence in Kannapolis on the morning of February 2, 2025. Her mother, Shaquanna Harris, has said publicly that the home's security system captured her daughter leaving on foot. Her personal belongings, the things a person doesn't leave behind if they're planning a trip, were found still in the house. Harris has also stated that Le'Quanda carries a PTSD diagnosis and left without her medication. Family members told local media they feared this was a second trafficking event. Her case became registered with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
What Happened the First Time
On February 1, 2024, Le'Quanda, then fifteen, was last seen at A.L. Brown High School. Police said at the time it was believed she'd left on her own. For nearly six months, no one knew where she was. According to Lake County, Illinois authorities and multiple news outlets, a man had been communicating with a fifteen-year-old girl from Kannapolis online since that June. He encouraged her to take a bus to Chicago. In early July, he picked her up from the bus station and brought her to his home in Green Oaks, Illinois, a house he shared with his mother.
On July 23, the U.S. Marshals Service received a tip on her location. Homeland Security Investigations and the Lake County Sheriff's Office confirmed she was at the residence. A search warrant followed. The next day, detectives watched forty-three-year-old Andrew Szech leave the home with the girl. He was arrested. She was rescued. Investigators searching Szech's home reported finding nearly six pounds of marijuana, twenty-seven marijuana plants, a firearm, psilocybin mushrooms, and dozens of Adderall pills.
Szech was initially charged with criminal sexual abuse and multiple drug and weapons offenses. A judge denied him pretrial release. Weeks later, a Lake County grand jury returned an indictment that significantly upgraded the case: four counts of involuntary sexual servitude of a minor, a Class X felony, the most serious classification in Illinois short of first-degree murder, along with additional counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse, criminal sexual abuse, weapons violations, and drug trafficking.
Intelligence Overview
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Findings
Le'Quanda Robinson has been found and is safe. Thank you to everyone who has helped spread awareness.
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