Hawaii woman reported missing went willfully to Mexico, LAPD says
Hannah Kobayashi, the 30-year-old Maui, Hawaii, woman at the center of a missing person search in Los Angeles, willfully crossed into Mexico, seemingly as part of her desire to "disconnect," police said Monday.
A 30-year-old Hawaii woman at the center of a missing person search in Los Angeles willfully crossed into Mexico, seemingly as part of her desire to "disconnect," police said Monday.
The case involving Hannah Kobayashi, of Maui, has been reclassified as one involving a "voluntary missing person," but it will be kept open until police are assured she's safe, Los Angeles Police Chief Jim McDonnell said at a news conference Monday night.
McDonnell added that there’s no evidence Kobayashi is the victim of human trafficking or foul play.
Lt. Douglas Oldfield, of the police department’s Missing Persons Unit, said at the news conference that detectives reviewed Kobayashi’s social media accounts, which led them to believe she "wanted to disconnect."
"By looking at her past social media, we then saw indications that there were some desires or posts that would be consistent in somebody who would have the desire to disconnect from their phone," he said.
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