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.”
Police then thank Navarro for talking to them, and she says, “Thank you for offering help to me.”
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. FOX 10 PhoenixThis 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.
Navarro is seen in a photo taken just days ago — nearly four years after her disappearance at age 14. FOX 10Police 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 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.”
Navarro disappeared just days before her 15th birthday in September 2019. Missing Kids“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 investigating how Navarro got to Montana, and whom she has been staying with over the past four years.
Alicia Navarro's mysterious reappearance: What we know so far
Who is Alicia Navarro?
Alicia Navarro is a previously missing 18-year-old from Arizona who unexpectedly turned up in a Montana police station nearly four years after her disappearance.
When did she disappear?
In 2019, the girl left her family’s Glendale, Arizona, home in the middle of the night just a few days before her 15th birthday. Her parents found a handwritten note from Navarro saying: “I ran away. I will be back. I swear. I’m sorry.”
Where was she found?
Navarro walked into a police station in a tiny Montana town about 40 miles from the Canadian border — and some 1,000 miles from home — and identified herself as the missing girl from Arizona.
Is she facing any charges?
Authorities in Navarro’s hometown of Glendale, Arizona, said the teen is not facing any criminal charges and is not in any kind of legal trouble.
Why did she leave?
Alicia’s mother, Jessica Nuñez, previously raised concerns that Navarro, who was diagnosed as high-functioning on the autism spectrum, may have been lured away by someone she met online.
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.








