Alicia Navarro appeared to cry as FBI brokers ‘cuffed’ man inside Montana dwelling the place she lived: neighbor

Alicia Navarro “hung her head” and lined her eyes “like she was crying” as FBI brokers final week raided the Montana residence she had been dwelling in with an unidentified man, neighbors informed The Publish.

Navarro, 18, walked into a police department in Havre on July 23, recognized herself and requested to be taken off the lacking individuals record — 4 years after she vanished from her mother and father’ dwelling in Glendale, Arizona, in 2019.

Residents within the Montana neighborhood the place Navarro had most just lately been residing stated the FBI shortly established a stakeout of her constructing earlier than closing in with armed officers.

“Three Havre police [cars] pulled up out of the constructing they usually all received out with weapons drawn and went into the residence,” neighbor Ron Turner, 69, informed The Publish, recalling that FBI brokers with assault rifles and bulletproof vests joined the raid final Wednesday.

Turner stated the brokers introduced a person out of the home “cuffed,” and that “they put him in a police automobile they usually left pretty shortly.”

“I’d say 5 to 10 minutes later they carry this lady out… They introduced this lady out and I informed my spouse ‘Oh man, that don’t look good. She appears to be like actually younger.’”

“Little did I do know she was authorized age however she certain didn’t look it,” Turner, a retired land surveyor, stated.

“She appeared high-quality when she first got here out. Then she lined her eyes like this for some time,” he stated, cupping his eyes together with his fingers. 

At one level, Turner stated officers entered the home with evidence-gathering kits.

“She lined her complete eyes like this along with her head down, like she was crying.”

“The man received taken away by the point she got here out. Officers had been speaking to her,” he added.

“I didn’t see her for an additional ten minutes or so. They had been inside along with her. Then she got here out later like five-ten minutes later. They introduced her out… Police had been speaking to her. I feel it was FBI or Arizona.”

“They had been speaking to her they usually had been over there perhaps three minutes and she or he hung her head and lined her face.”

Navarro claimed she was okay after she recognized herself to police final week — and even thanked them “providing to assist me.” However police have insisted she is being handled as a sufferer.

“To us she is a sufferer, and we have to present providers to her, Glendale police Lt. Scott Waite stated, including Navarro was unhurt and required no medical consideration when she got here in.

Simply earlier than her fifteenth birthday, Navarro’s mother and father awoke one morning to search out her gone and a notice studying “I ran away. I will probably be again. I swear. I’m sorry,” left behind.

The 18-year-old has been described as being autistic however excessive functioning, and authorities have speculated she could have been suffering from Stockholm Syndrome.

“I don’t see how that is seemingly with out another particular person being concerned, and if one other particular person was concerned, you must query their motives, in fact,” ex-FBI agent Jim Egleston informed AZ Family.

Although household stated in an announcement they had been elated “Alicia has been discovered alive and protected,” they’ve been immune to media protection since their daughter was found.

“They’re not speaking to reporters,” stated a lady on the entrance door of the Havre residence.

“I’m not speaking to reporters both,” she stated.