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Nic Cage Uses Star Power To Find Missing Girl — Alexis Boroviak, 15, Vanished Into Thin Air

By Shelley Hazen
Published on: 01:02 PST, Nov 20, 2015

Actor Nic Cage is putting his star power to good use. While in Lorain County, Ohio, this week filming a new movie, he stopped to take a picture while holding the flyer of a missing girl named Alexis Boroviak.

Her family hopes this bit of celebrity publicity will help bring some national attention to her case. Since she disappeared on November 8, a group working to help find her, the Guardian Angels and the Cleveland Peacemakers Alliance, has had a hard time inspiring widespread attention, a member, Angel Arroyo Jr., told the Huffington Post.

Arroyo, a local pastor, had the idea to approach Nic Cage when he heard he was in town. So they went to the set, and the actor invited them in to take a picture with Boroviak’s stepfather, Britton Ramsey, while he held a flyer of Alexis.

“We took the picture, he said he hopes for the best and good luck,” Arroyo told Fox8. “He was truly a nice guy, nothing major. Just trying to do whatever we can to get her story out there.”

The pastor recalled that Nic promised to pray for the team searching for the teen. Angel believes that her case may not be grabbing the national spotlight because she’s rumored to be a runaway, which doesn’t mean she isn’t in danger.

“Toledo is not far from here — maybe 70 miles — and it is always nationally ranked for human trafficking. With human trafficking, the average age of a child who goes missing is between 11 and 14. It touches us around here because we’re so close, and that’s what scares us.”

The girl Nic Cage has lent a brief hand to help find went missing while out walking the dog in Brooklyn, Ohio. Her stepsister later found the dog, but Alexis was nowhere to be found. Her family called police and enlisted Angel’s help.

According to Cleveland 19, Boroviak vanished with her cell phone, and in the next few hours, someone checked her voicemail several times. That activity abruptly stopped. Since then, the missing girl hasn’t used her cell or logged on to social media, and no one has reported seeing her.

In the past couple weeks, relatives and friends have organized searches, passed out flyers, and talked with community members. Michelle Knight, who was held captive by Ariel Castro in Cleveland for a decade, even joined in a vigil for the teen.

Though the missing girl hasn’t run away before, police stated that evidence hints the teen had made plans to do so, informing her friends and extended family “of her intention, but did not offer any solid information as to her intended destination.”

The missing girl has had some troubles recently. In May, her boyfriend, Jessie Hayes, was shot in the face and killed. His cousin, who is 28, told investigators that he didn’t know the gun was loaded. And within the past two years, a relative committed suicide.

With no leads as to where the missing girl is, her family, friends, and community hope the attention garnered by Nic Cage’s brief act of kindness will do some good.

Ramsey, who posed in the picture with Cage and is her mother’s boyfriend, told Cleveland 19 that “Nic Cage stopped and actually looked at the flyer and he looked at me and he said ‘how long has she been gone?’ I said ‘a week and a half.’ He said ‘I’m sorry to hear that.'”

And her father, Russell, took the opportunity to talk briefly to his daughter in the hopes she might be listening.

“We want you to know we are looking for you. We want you back. We don’t know what happened. Where ever you are if you can get to phone contact us.”

Boroviak is only 15. She is five feet three inches tall and weighs 156 pounds. The last time she was seen, she was wearing lavender pajama pants, a black, hooded sweatshirt, gray Nike shoes, and glasses. She may walk with a limp.

[Photo by Jason Kempin/Getty Images]

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