Arizona teenager Alicia Navarro who vanished 4 years in the past is discovered ALIVE in Montana

A high-functioning autistic teenager who disappeared from her Arizona residence one evening in 2019 has been discovered alive in Montana.

Alicia Navarro, who was simply 14 when she slipped out of her Glendale residence, lately walked right into a Montana police division and recognized herself, Glendale police introduced Wednesday.

‘She is by all accounts protected. She is by all accounts wholesome, and he or she is by all accounts blissful,’ Officer Jose Miguel Santiago stated at a information convention.

It stays unclear how {the teenager} traveled greater than 1,000 miles to a small city on the border of Canada, and if she was staying with anybody.

However her mom now says Navarro’s current reappearance is proof ‘miracles do exist,’ as she urged relations of different lacking folks to have hope.

Alicia Navarro, who was simply 14 when she slipped out of her Glendale residence, lately walked right into a Montana police division and recognized herself

The Glendale Police Division stated they have been capable of affirm Navarro’s identification, and emphasised that she is protected

Navarro had not been heard from since she left her residence within the early morning hours of September 15, 2019 whereas her mother and father have been sleeping.

After listening to the information that an 18-year-old recognized herself because the lacking teenager, Glendale police stated they instantly responded to the unspecified small city in Montana.

Officers stated they have been capable of confirm Navarro’s identification, and stated she has been extraordinarily cooperative with authorities.

‘I can not even start to precise to you all of the satisfaction that I personally have within the women and men right here at our police division,’ Santiago stated. 

‘Since her disappearance, our women and men right here have been working tirelessly across the clock to not solely carry closure to this household, however to ensure Alicia will get every little thing she presumably wants.’ 

He added that the woman ‘by all accounts seems to be in good spirits’ and ‘actually simply needs to maneuver on along with her life.

‘She may be very apologetic to what she has put her mom although. And he or she understands that she has prompted loads of ache to her mom, and it was not intentional on her behalf, and he or she is hopeful that they’ll have a relationship.’

The police division is now investigating the case with the help of the US Marshals Workplace and the FBI.

‘I might ask endurance, not just for us as legislation enforcement on this investigation, however endurance for Alicia and her household,’ Glendale Police Division Lt. Scott Waite stated Wednesday.

‘We are able to solely think about what she’s going by means of, mentally, emotionally, in addition to her household, and as a lot as we would wish to say that is the top, that is most likely solely the start of the place this investigation will go.’ 

Navarro had not been heard from since she left her residence within the early morning hours of September 15, 2019 whereas her mother and father have been sleeping

{The teenager} had left her mom a handwritten be aware saying she would come again residence

Through the years, Navarro’s mother, Jessica Nunez, partnered with numerous personal investigative companies, put up billboards, appeared on tv applications and used social media in her efforts to seek out her daughter

Navarro went lacking only one week earlier than her fifteenth birthday, leaving her mom a handwritten be aware in her bed room saying she would come again residence. 

Just a few days prior, Arizona Republic beforehand reported, the woman had requested her mom, Jessica Nunez, if she might keep residence from faculty.

Nunez agreed, figuring her daughter was nervous about beginning courses at Bourgade Catholic College in Phoenix.

The mother-daughter duo then spent the following day visiting a chocolate manufacturing unit, and Nunez stated her daughter appeared blissful.

However that evening, Navarro requested her mom what time she was going to mattress, and slipped out of the home when she was asleep.

Nunez suspected Alicia might have been kidnapped by somebody she met on-line gaming.

‘I am greater than 90 p.c certain that my daughter met this individual on-line,’ she claimed on the time.

The mom stated her daughter was a reasonably cautious individual, so it might have been uncommon for her to be simply lured.

‘Understanding the way in which my daughter’s persona is, I do not suppose that she would have fallen for that,’ Nunez stated. ‘This individual most likely took some time to have the ability to acquire [her] belief.’ 

In a Fb video on Wednesday, Navarro stated she feels reduction understanding that her daughter is alive and effectively

Navarro had lengthy suspected that her daughter was kidnapped by somebody she met on-line gaming, although police have been by no means capable of finding any proof of that

Through the years, Nunez partnered with numerous personal investigative companies, put up billboards, appeared on tv applications and used social media in her efforts to seek out her daughter.

In the meantime, the Glendale Police Division adopted up on hundreds of leads concerning Alicia’s disappearance. 

It reported final 12 months that it was getting not less than one tip per week about Navarro’s disappearance, however there was by no means any concrete proof she was kidnapped.

Now, Nunez stated in a Fb video, she simply feels reduction.

‘I, to start with, wish to give glory to God for answering my prayers and for this miracle,’ she stated. ‘For everybody who has lacking family members, I need you to us this case for example that miracles do exist and by no means lose hope, and all the time struggle.’

She stated she did not but have all the small print about her daughter’s disappearance, ‘however the essential factor is that she is alive.

‘I wish to thank the neighborhood and God for all that you’ve finished,’ she stated.