Local business owner found safe after going missing Friday

A local business owner has been found after she went missing last Friday, the Warren County Sheriff’s Office reported. She is safe and has been reunited with her family.

The sheriff’s office had previously asked the public for help locating Heidi Bruce, who co-owns Deja Brew on Harshman Road in Riverside.

Bruce is 77 years old and five feet, two inches tall. She weighs around 120 pounds and has blonde hair and brown eyes.

She drives a gray 2016 Ford Escape with Ohio license plate number DW15CR.

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The sheriff’s office said Bruce was last seen at about 3 a.m. Friday morning when her husband returned home from work. Bruce and her husband live in Franklin Township in Warren County.

She was scheduled to meet with a vendor at the business at 8:30 a.m. However, at 10:30 a.m., the husband was alerted by the vendor that she never arrived.

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