Missing girl Alicia Navarro seen surfacing for first time in video

New footage shows Arizona girl Alicia Navarro — who surfaced this week after being missing for four years — assuring cops in a video interview that nobody hurt her after she turned up at a police station in a remote Montana town.

In the edited recording, the 18-year-old Navarro, with her dark hair pulled back, is seen on a cellphone screen responding to questions from investigators in her hometown of Glendale, Arizona, Wednesday.

“Did anybody hurt you in any way?” an officer asks the girl.

“No, nobody hurt me,” the teen replies.

The cop explains that his goal is to make sure that Navarro is safe, to which the visibly overwhelmed 18-year-old replies after an uncomfortable pause, during which she appears to struggle to find the right words: “I understand that.”


Missing girl Alicia Navarro, 18, is seen talking to police in her hometown of Glendale, Arizona, via video after she turned up in a remote Montana town.
Missing girl Alicia Navarro, 18, is seen talking to police in her hometown of Glendale, Arizona, via video after she turned up in a remote Montana town.
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Police then thank Navarro for talking to them, and she says: “thank you for offering help to me.”

This marks the first time Navarro has been heard from since she ran away from home just days before her 15th birthday in September 2019.

Navarro — who was previously described as autistic but high-functioning — walked into a police station in a small Montana town near the Canadian border and asked to be removed from the list of missing children, Glendale public safety communications manager Jose Santiago said during a press conference Wednesday.

“She is by all accounts, safe, she is by all accounts healthy and she is by all accounts happy,” Santiago said.

Police in Glendale confirmed Navarro’s identity and then alerted her parents, who have not seen or heard from their daughter since the night she vanished, leaving behind a note that read: “I ran away. I will be back. I swear. I’m sorry.”


Navarro is seen in a photo taken just days ago -- nearly four years after her disappearance at age 14.
Navarro is seen in a photo taken just days ago — nearly four years after her disappearance at age 14.
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Navarro was then reunited with her mother, Jessica Nuñez, in what Glendale police Lt. Scott Waite described as an “extremely overwhelming” encounter.

Nuñez, who has spent the last four years tirelessly looking for her daughter, called her return a “miracle.”

“For everyone who has missing loved ones, I want you to use this case as an example,” she said in a Facebook video. “Miracles do exist. Never lose hope and always fight.”

The teen wanted to make sure her mom knew that “she was OK” and was very apologetic over the pain her mother went through not knowing where she was for the past four years, or even if she was still alive, Santiago said.

Police are now investigating how Navarro got to Montana, and who she has been staying with over the past four years.

The girl has been cooperative and is free to come and go as she pleases, cops said.

“She is not in any kind of trouble. She is not facing any kind of charges,” Santiago said, adding that Navarro is asking for privacy.