Trevor Lines was found safe Saturday night at RiverGate Skate Center in Goodlettsville, ending a missing-person search that stretched from a Nashville rental to multiple Middle Tennessee jurisdictions. His family said police found the 28-year-old sitting in his car.
The Goodlettsville Police Department said Lines was located after the Metro Nashville Police Department had asked for the public’s help earlier in the week. He had been reported missing after friends staying with him at a short-term rental on Doulas Avenue in Nashville said he was gone along with his 2016 white Lexus RX350 when they returned early Thursday morning.
Lines’ phone and medication were left at the rental, a detail that had sharpened concern as officers tracked his vehicle. Friends told police they left around 5 a.m. on June 11 to look for someone’s phone, then came back in the 6 a.m. hour to find him and the Lexus missing. His vehicle, which carried an Indiana Purdue University plate numbered INQC9104, was first picked up by license plate readers in Mt. Juliet about 7:30 a.m. Friday, then again in Goodlettsville about 4:30 p.m. Friday.
That trail crossed agencies that do not always share the same tools. Metro Nashville police said Nashville does not have license plate reader technology, while the Tennessee Highway Patrol and Coffee County authorities were told to be on the lookout for Lines and his vehicle. He had already been entered into the national missing-person database as officers tried to trace a route that began in Nashville and ended with a safe recovery in Goodlettsville.
Lines and his friends had come to Tennessee for Bonnaroo in Manchester, and the case briefly moved through a wide stretch of Middle Tennessee before it closed with a confirmed safe find. What remains unanswered is how he got from the Nashville rental to RiverGate Skate Center before police found him in his car.
For now, the search has ended the best way it could: with Trevor Lines alive, located, and no longer missing.
