NEW DELHI: Mint Butterfield, the lacking baby of Slack’s co-founder, was present in San Francisco on Saturday night time, accompanied by an grownup man who’s ten years their senior and is now going through kidnapping expenses.
The 16-year-old was found with Christopher “Kio” Dizefalo, 26, as reported by the Marin County Sheriff’s Workplace, following the disappearance of {the teenager}, who identifies as non-binary and prefers they/them pronouns, from their residence in Bolinas final week.
Dizefalo, described by the sheriff as an “grownup buddy,” was arrested and booked at Marin County Jail on suspicion of kid abduction and different violations, arrest information obtained by the San Francisco Commonplace. He was in custody on bail amounting to $50,000, as New York Submit reported.
The parking valet was found with Mint inside his white van on Eddy Road within the metropolis’s notoriously harmful Tenderloin District neighborhood in line with reserving information.
Mint — who was deemed “at-risk” as a result of earlier threats of suicide — was unhurt.
They knowledgeable the detectives that they’d chosen to depart their Bolinas dwelling on their very own accord and have now been reunited with their household.
The Commonplace reported that Dizefalo is suspected of coaxing the teenager to run away.
Mint’s dad and mom, Stewart Butterfield — who co-founded the moment messaging app Slack earlier than promoting it to Salesforce in 2020 — and Caterina Pretend — who co-founded the photo-sharing app Flickr, thanked investigators for bringing their baby dwelling.
“A heartfelt due to all of the household, associates, volunteers and strangers who known as in ideas and made this restoration attainable,” their dad and mom and stepfather, fellow tech founder Jyri Engeström, said in an e mail to the Commonplace and different native shops. “We particularly wish to thank the seasoned regulation enforcement officers who perceive the very actual risk of predators who use the attract of medicine to groom youngsters.”
Mint was final seen in Bolinas on the night time of April 21 and was reported lacking by their mom the next morning.
{The teenager} supposedly left a notice to tell their dad and mom that they’d deliberate to run away earlier than being found with Dizefalo this week.
Authorities believed that Mint had been within the Tenderloin neighborhood as a result of Mint was identified to frequent the world earlier than working away from dwelling, as confirmed by the police.



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