Alicia Navarro, the now-18-year-old Arizona woman who was missing for four years before appearing at a Montana police station this week, asked police for help getting off the missing persons list because she wanted to apply for a driver’s license.
“She literally walked into the police station and said, ‘I am Alicia Navarro. I know I am reported missing and I would like to be taken off that list and get a driver’s license,’” Tim Steele, the president of the Anti-Predator Project and the Navarro family spokesperson, told The Daily Beast. “She wanted a Montana driver’s license.”
Navarro left home in Glendale, Arizona, on September 15, 2019, leaving a note behind that said, “I ran away. I will be back. I swear. I’m sorry,” as CrimeOnline reported. She described at the time as a high-functioning teen, and she wasn’t seen or heard from again until she arrived at a police department in Havre, Montana, near the Canadian border, and asked for help, the Daily Beast said.
According to Havre Police, Navarro “appeared to fine and in good health.”
She spoke with investigators in Glendale in a video call, telling them no one hurt her and she was happy and healthy.
Steele told the Daily Beast that Navarro had a “very brief” chat with her mother, Jennifer Nunez, Steele said, but haven’t spoken again.
“They have their own healing journey to go on. They’ve got stuff they have to do first,” Steele said. “She is safe. I hope people wait for the facts of the case before making their assumptions.”
Navarro remains in Montana, officials said.
Glendale Police told The Daily Beast that “detectives served a search warrant on a resident” in Montana after Navarro came forward. The warrant led to interviews with four people, but no one has been detained or is in custody, they said.
“This is still an active investigation and we are requesting time and patience as we peel away the layers of the last four years,” a police spokesperson said.
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[Featured image: Alicia Navarro/Glendale Police Department]
