Arizona teen missing for almost 4 years turns up at police station near Canada border

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Arizona teenager who vanished without a trace when she was 14 years old has turned up safe at a police station after being missing for nearly four years, police said.Alicia Navarro, now 18, of Glendale, Ariz., showed up alone this week in a small Montana town about 64 kilometres from the Canadian border and identified herself. It’s unclear how she travelled from Arizona to Montana, more than 1,600 kilometres away from her home in the Phoenix suburb.“She is by all accounts safe, she is by all accounts healthy, and she is by all accounts happy,” Glendale police spokesperson said Jose Santiago in a livestreamed news conference Wednesday evening.“She showed up to a police department. She identified herself as Alicia Navarro.

She basically asked for help to clear her off of a missing juvenile list,” Santiago added.Navarro’s disappearance sparked a massive search that included the FBI and the Center for Missing and Exploited Children. Santiago said over the years, police had received thousands of tips.It appears that Navarro may have run away from home, but police say they are still investigating her whereabouts for the last four years. Her mother, Jessica Nunez, raised concerns that Navarro, who was diagnosed as high-functioning on the autism spectrum, may have been lured away by someone.When Navarro disappeared on Sept.

15, 2019, she left a note in her home that read: “I ran away. I will be back, I swear. I’m sorry.”“Every indication she’s given to us so far is that she willfully left her home,” said police Lt.