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Arizona Girl Missing Since 2019 Walks Into Police Station At 18 To Be Removed From List
Arizona Girl Missing Since 2019 Walks Into Police Station At 18 To Be Removed From Missing Children List
An Arizona girl who disappeared in the night just days before her 15th birthday four years ago was found safe several states away this week — when she walked into a police station and asked to be removed from the missing children list.
Alicia Navarro, now 18, walked into a police department in a tiny Montana town 40 miles from the Canadian border and identified herself as the teen who was reported missing in September 2019, Glendale police said Wednesday.
“Alicia Navarro has been located,” Glendale public safety communications manager Jose Santiago said during a press conference. “She is by all accounts safe, she is by all accounts healthy and she is by all accounts happy.”
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The teenager — who was described as autistic but high-functioning in her missing person’s report — left her Glendale home overnight on Sept. 15, 2019, at just 14 years old. Her parents, who were asleep when she slipped out of the house, found a handwritten note from their daughter stating: “I ran away. I will be back. I swear. I’m sorry” the next day, according to KTAR News.
Navarro took her phone and her laptop and stacked chairs to escape over the back fence of the house, her mother later said in a local interview. She never heard from her again — until this week.
Navarro walked into the local police station in Montana alone and told them to remove her from the missing children list. The department alerted Glendale police, who confirmed her identity and contacted the teen’s family to let them know she had been found safe.
Navarro then spoke with her mother — who never gave up searching for her daughter — in an emotional reunion, police said. The teen wanted to make sure her mom knew that she was OK and was very apologetic over the pain her mother went through not knowing where she was for the past four years or even if she was still alive, Santiago said.
Her mom, Jessica Nuñez, called the discovery of her daughter four years after her disappearance a miracle in a video she posted to Facebook.
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