Southampton Town Police search for missing East Quogue teen, bicycle found at station

Southampton Town Police searched for 16-year-old Karleigy Kameron Amara of East Quogue after she left home around 2:30 a.m. Wednesday, May 6, and her blue-and-black bicycle was later found at the Hampton Bays train station.

The search quickly widened across the East Quogue-Hampton Bays corridor after an official missing-child alert said Amara was last seen riding her bike eastbound on Montauk Highway in Hampton Bays at about 2:50 a.m. Police described her as a white female, about 5-foot-4 and 155 pounds, with shoulder-length bright red hair. She was last seen wearing white pajama pants and a black hooded sweatshirt, and she was carrying a brown Coach bag.

The alert said Amara, who also goes by K.C., has autism and may have been in imminent danger. That detail, combined with the late-night timeline and the discovery of her bicycle away from home, pushed the case beyond a routine missing-person call and into a rapid local search effort centered on one of the busiest travel corridors in the area.

Hampton Bays station, an official Long Island Rail Road stop on Good Ground Road and Springville Road near Ponquogue Avenue, became a key location in the case because it gave police and residents a fixed point to work from. Anyone who saw Amara, or a teen matching her description, near the station, Montauk Highway, or the East Quogue route in the early morning hours had a narrow but important window to come forward with information.

Southampton Town Police later said Amara had been located safe at 3:58 p.m. Wednesday and thanked the public for its help. That ended a search that lasted roughly 13 and a half hours from the reported departure from home to the safe-location update.

The case fit a pattern Suffolk County residents know well: when a child is reported missing, local police and alert systems move fast because the first hours matter most. Southampton Town Police have used similar missing-teen alerts before, including a September 2025 case involving East Quogue teen Anya Larsen. In Amara’s case, the combination of a precise last-seen time, a bicycle left at a transit hub, and a clear route along Montauk Highway gave investigators a tight geography to work with and helped bring the search to a swift close.