FBI, police request public's help in search for missing NC woman

LUMBERTON, N.C. — FBI officials and the Lumberton Police Department are asking for the public’s help to locate a missing 20-year-old woman from Lumberton.

Officials said Abby Lynn Patterson was last seen on Sept. 5 around 11:30 a.m. when she left her home on East 9th Street and got into a brown Buick.

Patterson was wearing a white shirt and brown shorts when she was last seen, authorities said, and has not had any contact with family members or friends.

Anyone with information regarding the whereabouts of Abby Lynn Patterson is asked to call the FBI's Charlotte Field Office at (704) 672-6100, or the Lumberton Police Department at (910) 671-3845.