CAMP Capt. Joel McNelly speaking at a press briefing May 19, 2021. The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department has located more than 150 missing teens and children in a special operation with the U.S. Marshals Service and other community organizations. The investigation dubbed "Operation Carolina Homecoming" focused on finding children who had been missing for a prolonged period of time and who had remained unaccounted for despite previous attempts to locate them. CMPD Capt. Joel McNelly told reporters Wednesday that investigators spent months identifying and locating the youth — the majority of whom had been missing for more than six months. Some had been missing for more than a year, McNelly said.