A teenage girl who disappeared early this month from the Central Coast has been found safe in Mexico. The 15-year-old girl is from Arizona, but was staying with relatives on the Central Coast this summer.
There are though, still a lot of questions about exactly what happened.
During the investigation, San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s detectives discovered during the last year, the teen had become friends with a man and a woman through social media. They say the 38-year-old man had been posing as a teenager, and had urged the girl to run away with him to Mexico.
Investigators think Daniel Navarro of Victorville picked up the girl in Nipomo, and along with an accomplice took her to Tijuana.
Federal Homeland Security agents and the FBI helped detectives, getting search warrants for social media and cellphone accounts. Navarro and 20-year-old Julie Le of Garden Grove were arrested Monday as they tried to enter the United States.
Mexican authorities rescued the teen from a Tijuana home Tuesday morning. She’s been reunited with her family.
There’s no word on what specific charges the couple will face.
