Arizona teen Alicia Navarro had been missing since September 2019. She identified herself to Montana police and has been reunited with her family, police said.
Navarro was missing for almost four years before she reported to a police station in a small Montana town close to the Canadian border and notified authorities that she was the missing teen from Glendale, Ariz., police said Wednesday. Navarro, who is now 18, was found safe more than 1,000 miles from her home. She was reunited with her mother in a scene that authorities described as “emotionally overwhelming.
. The search for Navarro led to a nationwide effort involving the FBI and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children that generated thousands of tips to police about her whereabouts, according to authorities.that her daughter was found safe, saying it was a “miracle” her daughter was alive. “For everyone who has missing loved ones, I want you to use this case as an example that miracles do exist and never lose hope and always fight,” Nuñez said.
Authorities added that Navarro is not facing any charges. “Every indication she has given to us so far is she willfully left her home,” Glendale Police Lt. Scott Waite told reporters. “Now the dynamics surrounding that decision are obviously something we are looking into.”There were over 359,000 reports of missing children in the United States made to the NCMEC in 2022,to the FBI.
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