Family members contacted the police after not hearing from Johnson & Wales University student Amy Scott, 21, of New Jersey, seen with her boyfriend, Daniel Querzoli, 22.

The Providence Journal / Ruben W. Perez

PROVIDENCE — The police are seeking information concerning a Johnson & Wales University student and her boyfriend who have been missing since Friday.

Amy Scott, 21, of New Jersey, and her boyfriend, Daniel Querzoli, 22, of East Bridgewater, Mass., were last seen around midnight Friday when they borrowed a car from one of Scott’s roommates, said Providence police Detective Sgt. Carl Weston. Scott’s mother called the police to report her daughter missing, Weston said.

Weston said the police notified local TV stations and entered the students’ names and information into the National Crime Information Center, a computerized index that goes out to federal, state and local law enforcement agencies.

Normally, the police wouldn’t start a search so quickly unless a missing person was mentally or physically disabled, said Weston, but this case “is a bit perplexing.”

Scott and Querzoli went out to dinner Friday night and went back to Scott’s apartment at 521 Angell St., in Providence. Even though both have cars, they borrowed a roommate’s car and left the apartment around midnight, leaving behind their money, credit cards and cell phones. Also the roommate’s car had little gas; its gas cap was broken and could only be removed by the car’s owner, Weston said.

The car they drove off in is a 2004 silver Honda Civic with New Jersey plates — RUF20X. Weston described Scott as Caucasian, 5-foot-7, 105 pounds with wavy red hair. He did not have a description of Querzoli, who is not a Johnson & Wales student.

Scott’s mother told the police that it was “completely uncharacteristic” for her daughter to be gone without contacting anyone, Weston said.

The police ask those with information concerning the students to call (401) 272-3121.