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(NewsNation) — Authorities updated the nationalist Monday evening with the latest details connected 30-year-old Maui nonmigratory Hannah Kobayashi, who has been the halfway of a monolithic hunt since she vanished successful Los Angeles successful aboriginal November.
Kobayashi was seen connected information footage crossing the U.S. borderline connected ft into Mexico, alone, with luggage and seemingly unharmed, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.
The lawsuit is present classified arsenic a voluntary missing idiosyncratic case.
Kobayashi disappeared aft missing her connecting formation successful Los Angeles, crossed the borderline into Mexico, instrumentality enforcement sources told aggregate outlets.
Kobayashi reportedly crossed the borderline between Nov. 12 and 13, per NBC News affiliate reports. The sources told aggregate outlets determination was nary grounds of foul play successful her disappearance.
In a Nov. 26 Board of Police Commissioners meeting, Los Angeles Police Department Chief Jim McDonnell said the probe determined Kobayashi purposefully skipped her LAX flight.
Kobayashi disappeared and stopped contacting her household conscionable days after.
In the last texts sent to loved ones, Kobayashi said, “I got hacked, stripped of my identity, I can’t fly.”
Another reads: “I got tricked beauteous overmuch into giving distant my funds for idiosyncratic I thought I loved. I’ve been connected the streets.”
The concerning messages person led household members to judge she could've been trafficked, drugged oregon coerced during her clip successful Los Angeles. Family flew retired to assistance hunt for her, and her father, Ryan Kobayashi, died by termination connected Nov. 24.
Kobayashi’s sister and parent released a connection connected Facebook Saturday night, claiming investigators person reported inaccurate accusation connected the case.
They besides allege the constabulary section has not communicated caller developments with them.
“We are doing everything successful our powerfulness to find Hannah. Based connected information, surveillance footage reviewed and accusation shared with us, these are the facts known to my parent and I:
- It does not look that Hannah intentionally missed her flight.
- My parent and I were unaware astir the alleged findings presented astatine the Los Angeles Police Commission gathering until aggregate videos of the gathering were sent to america by aggregate citizens.
- These alleged findings person yet to beryllium relayed to my parent and I straight from the Chief of the Los Angeles Police Department oregon immoderate detective progressive successful Hannah’s case.
- My parent and I would aboriginal larn that the constabulary committee is simply a five-member committee made up of 5 civilians, not instrumentality enforcement, who are not straight progressive successful Hannah’s missing persons case.
- Specific facts contained successful that study were inaccurate, specified arsenic Hannah’s age. Hannah is 30 years old, not 23. Also, Hannah was reported missing to Law Enforcement connected November 11th, not November 13th, arsenic stated by the main of the Los Angeles Police Department.
The deficiency of connection surrounding immoderate important details has near america feeling excluded from perchance important developments. However, we bash stay hopeful and optimistic that the Los Angeles Police Department is doing everything successful their powerfulness to assistance america successful locating Hannah.
We are devastated by Hannah’s disappearance and present my begetter Ryan’s passing. It is wholly retired of quality for Hannah to simply vanish without a trace. We stay profoundly acrophobic astir Hannah’s safety, her well-being and her existent authorities of mind.
Hannah, if you hap to spot this, cognize that we are not going to springiness up oregon halt searching until we find you. We cognize that this is thing you would ne'er bash connected your ain accord, unless you felt immoderate benignant of menace oregon you were unwell. We cognize however overmuch you emotion each of us, and we emotion you deeply.
While we volition proceed our hunt for Hannah widely, we volition beryllium focusing connected the Southern California area, specifically each regions of Los Angeles, Long Beach, and each regions of San Diego.
We widen our deepest gratitude to everyone who continues to clasp our household successful their prayers and to those positively contributing to our hunt efforts.
NewsNation’s Nancy Loo and Damita Menezes contributed to this report.
