Teen Missing Since 2019 Heard Arguing ‘I Will Go Back’ by Neighbor Days Before Reappearing at Police Station
Alicia Navarro, who was 14 when she disappeared, had been seen with an unidentified man "many times" in Havre, Montana
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00:00 An Arizona teen missing since 2019 was heard by a neighbor telling the man she was living with,
00:05 "I will go back." This before she reappeared at a Montana police station earlier this week.
00:10 In an interview published Friday, Garrett Smith told the New York Post that he heard Alicia Navarro
00:15 yelling at a man, estimated to be in his 20s, from inside their apartment complex in Haver, Montana.
00:21 Smith says this was the day before she turned herself in.
00:24 Authorities announced during a press conference on Wednesday that Navarro, who was 14 when she
00:28 disappeared from her Glendale, Arizona home in September of 2019, had reported to a police station
00:34 in Montana, close to the Canadian border.
00:37 She is by all accounts safe. She is by all accounts healthy. And she is by all accounts happy.
00:44 She by all accounts went on her own free will. She is not in any kind of trouble.
00:50 She's not facing any kind of charges. She is not being held anywhere.
00:55 She is coming and going at her own free will and she has been extremely cooperative
01:00 with not only our folks but our federal partners as well.
01:03 According to Fox 10 Phoenix, officials said that Navarro identified herself
01:07 and asked for help getting off a missing juvenile list.
01:10 The Post reported that this was in order to obtain a driver's license and start living a normal life.
01:15 Smith told the outlet that he had seen the teen and the identified man around quite often,
01:20 but only spoke to Navarro for the first time just days before she appeared at the Montana police station.
01:25 At the time, he said that she was looking for her uncle near a post office
01:29 and recalled that she was asking for directions and looked scared.
01:32 Per the Post, Smith said that Navarro and the man had been residents of their Haver apartment
01:36 at least since he moved in last year, but it is unknown how long exactly they had been living there.
01:41 According to the Glendale Police Department, Navarro's disappearance and reappearance remain under investigation.
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