UPDATE: Elizabeth Chesner's boyfriend, Robert Paige, has been charged with obstruction for allegedly lying to police about her whereabouts.

— The Sussex County teen who went missing for more than a week, setting off a massive volunteer and law enforcement search, was found with her boyfriend in Bloomfield, according to her mother.

Sharon Decker told NJ.com Tuesday that she got a call from police around 1:30 a.m., letting her known 16-year-old Elizabeth Chesner was found at her boyfriend's house.

Franklin borough police had previously said they did not consider the boyfriend a suspect in Chesner's disappearance, but also stressed they were looking into all possibilities. Police said they considered Chesner a runaway, and said it's likely she didn't want to be found.

"She appears to be OK," Decker said, reading a statement she prepared. "Many questions will need to be answered by her. At this time, my sole focus is she is alive, she is OK, and that she will get any help she will need, if needed."

Decker said around 11:15 a.m. that she had seen her daughter in the last few hours — the first time the two had been together in about nine days.

Online supporters posted this flyer to their own Facebook pages and elsewhere on the Web as police and volunteers searched for Sussex County teen Elizabeth Chesner over the last week.

When asked if she knew whether Chesner had been with her boyfriend since her disappearance March 24, Decker said "we're still unveiling some of those questions and answers."

Chesner had reportedly spent the afternoon of March 24 with her boyfriend in Bloomfield, and Franklin borough police said they were told he dropped her off to spend time with some friends — then never returned home that night, and never arrived at school the next morning.

Monday, police said Chesner was seen the next day in Hamburg on Route 23, near Governor Haines Street. The day after that, police said Monday, she was driven by someone to Bloomfield and spoke to her boyfriend there, but then left, asking her boyfriend to wait for her. She didn't return after that point, police said at the time.

Franklin Detective Nevin Mattessich

Tuesday he and Chief Eugene McInerney found Chesner early that morning, hiding voluntarily in her boyfriend's home. Mattessich told the paper Chesner destroyed her phone so that it would be untraceable. She was found in good health, he told the Herald.

NJ.com left messages with police Tuesday, seeking an update, and is awaiting a response.

Several police departments became involved with the search, and Chesner's disappearance set off a massive community effort to find her. Hundreds of people joined a

and spread word of the search through posts and shared images of flyers.

Monday, dozens of people gathered in Franklin, and searched the borough as well as nearby Vernon and Hambug. They checked stores, wooded areas and mine shafts, and knocked on doors, asking residents if they had seen Chesner.

The volunteer search had been expected to pick up Tuesday morning. Another was scheduled in Bloomfield for Thursday.

Chesner and her mother recently moved to Franklin, from Hamburg. Before that, they lived in Bloomfield.

"I want to thank everyone for helping us. Family, friends and new faces all pitched in by sending flyers out, passing the word out to their family and friends, via the Internet, social media, and word of mouth," Decker said in the statement she read to NJ.com. "People are truly are good in this world. It was proven to me during this crisis I was dealing with, not knowing where my daughter was."

The community support proved vital, Decker said.

"Words cannot express how grateful and appreciative my family is for everyone's help," Decker said. "She could not have survived this without everyone's support, well-wishes and dedication to finding my daughter."