Two Lakeville girls missing since 2013 found at farm

Two Lakeville teenage girls missing since April 2013 amid a custody dispute in Dakota County were found Wednesday at a western Minnesota horse farm, police said.

On Wednesday, police and USA marshals conducted a search at White Horse Ranch in Herman, Minn., hoping to find the two girls. They have been gone ever since – even their mother, Sandra Grazzini Rucki, denied knowing their whereabouts.

“Both Samantha and Gianna were found safe and in seemingly good health”, according to a statement from Lakeville police.

The girls, Gianna and Samantha Rucki, ages 17 and 16, ran away from their home in Lakeville, Minn., in April 2013, during a bitter custody battle.

Authorities say they will be taken back to Dakota County to be reunited with their father. Samantha and Gianna went missing after a judge granted their father, David Rucki, full custody of the kids in November 2013.

Grazzini-Rucki was charged with felony deprivation of parental rights.

Police believed an underground network of family court critics was hiding the Rucki sisters.

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Polinski said evidence obtained from a search of a woman’s home in St. Cloud led them to the White Horse Ranch.

The teens were discovered at a ranch that promotes itself as a non-profit agency where “broken children and broken horses” are healed.

The owner of the ranch, Doug Dahlen, told the Star Tribune he could not comment on the case.

A month after their disappearance, the daughters appeared in an interview on KMSP-TV.