Missing Washington girl found in rural Mexico, FBI says

SEATTLE — Officials with the FBI office in Seattle announced Friday they recovered a girl who had been missing from Adams County for nearly two years in rural Mexico.

Agents received a tip and worked with the the Legal Attaché Office in Mexico City to find the girl about eight hours outside Mexico City.

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“Too many times we see situations like these end in tragedy or with no answers. Happily in this case, we were able to bring her home, thanks to the quick actions of our agents and our partners at the Othello Police Department and the Mexican Federal Police,” said FBI Seattle Special Agent in Charge Raymond Duda.

The girl was reported missing by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children in June 2018 when she was 14 years old.

Officials said they believed she may be in Mexico but she had not been seen since disappearing from Othello.

The girl was flown back to the United States and arrived in Spokane late Tuesday night where she was reunited with her family, officials said.

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