Police find teenager after controversial TV mom reported him as a runaway
wonderwall.comTMZ reported that the teenager was seen leaving his school on Tuesday, Aug. 15, and he apparently didn't go home. Soon after, the Brunswick Co.
Sheriff's Department in North Carolina put out an alert for a runaway juvenile. What caused Jace to apparently runway isn't known, but Jenelle told the webloid that her son recently got in trouble at school and was disciplined. "As a boy mom, kids can act up and rebel as I'm sure the majority of us all once did as kids too," she said. "Jace, got in trouble at school, we decided to take his phone away and that's when he decided to run off, Jace is a good kid and we're not dealing with anything that most families don't deal with while raising children, this has absolutely nothing to do with my situation with David, we do not argue in front of our children or fight in front of our kids."She added, "This is a teenage boy being a teenager mad that we decided to take his phone away."The former MTV star has been publicly feuding with her husband, David Eason, who is not Jace's biological father.
TMZ reached out to Jenelle's mother, Barbara, who maintained that Jace seemed fine when they spoke less than 24 hours before his brief disappearance.
She also said she reached out to Jenelle on Tuesday, but the one-time reality TV personality told her mom "she didn't want to talk and to leave her alone," the site said.
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