A day after her mother begged the public and the media to leave her daughter and family alone, a retired neighbor of Alicia Navarro in Montana said that the now 18-year-old “hung her head” and looked “like she was crying” when FBI agents raided the apartment where she’d been living.
Navarro was 14 when she lefter her Glendale, Arizona, home, leaving behind a note that said she was running away but would be back. Last week, she walked into a police department in Havre, Montana, identified herself, and asked to be taken off the missing person’s list.
After Navarro returned to her apartment from the police station, neighbors in Havre, Montana, said FBI agents staked out the building where she lived with an unidentified man.
“Three Havre police [cars] pulled up out of the building, and they all got out with guns drawn and went into the apartment,” Ron Turner, 69, told The New York Post, recalling that FBI agents with assault rifles and bulletproof vests joined the raid last Wednesday. They were armed with assault rifles and wearing bullet proof vests, he said.
Turner said they brought a man out of the apartment in handcuffs, “put him in a police car, and they left fairly quickly.”
Investigators have said they have questioned a man in the case, but no arrests have been made and no one is in custody.
Turner said a few minutes later, the police brought out Navarro, someone he didn’t know. He said he thought she looked “really young.”
“Little did I know she was legal age, but she sure didn’t look it,” he said.
“She covered her whole eyes like this with her head down, like she was crying,” he said, demonstrating.
In a video conversation with Glendale Police, Navarro said she had not been harmed and thanked police for helping her.
“To us she is a victim, and we need to provide services to her,” Glendale police Lt. Scott Waite said.
Navarro’s direct neighbors in the apartment building where she lived have refused to speak to reporters, as have Navarro and the man she lives with.
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[Featured image: Alicia Navarro speaks with investigators/Glendale Police Department via KSAZ]
