PICTURED: Raleigh Starbucks Employee GOES MISSING After Going On Break

The FBI and the Raleigh Police Department are assisting the Raleigh Durham Airport Authority Police Department in their search for Starbucks employee, Allison Cope, who never returned from her break Monday afternoon.

Cope, said to be in her mid-20s, was supposed to return from a break from an airport Starbucks in Terminal 2 at 3 p.m. but did not come back, police said.

Cope stands 5 feet 6 inches tall and weighs 180 pounds. She was last seen wearing a black HMS Host-branded Starbucks polo shirt, blue jeans and black sneakers, police said.

Cope’s friend and roommate says police told her surveillance cameras captured Cope going down the escalator and leaving Terminal 2.

Her ID badge used to swipe out of the parking lot at 3:08 p.m. But friends said there are no cameras in the manager’s lot where Cope’s car was parked. So it’s unclear if she was driving.

Friends said that later Monday afternoon, Cope’s debit card was used at a Shell gas station in Wake Forest. The amount spent was the remaining money in her account — about $23.

Andrew Sawyer, a spokesman for RDU, said that “other agencies may be involved” and that this is a “very active investigation.”

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