Southern California Mom Has Been Missing For Two Weeks After Visiting Tijuana For A Day And Never Returning

A Southern California mother has been missing for 2 weeks aft what was expected to beryllium a speedy travel crossed nan separator to Mexico.

Police successful Santa Ana are looking for 21-year-old Yasmin Gonzalez Benitez, who has been missing since March 15 aft telling her roommate she was heading to Tijuana to sojourn family.

She was past seen astatine her location connected nan 900 artifact of Pine Street successful Santa Ana earlier getting into a car pinch relatives and heading crossed nan border, constabulary said.

The young mother was only expected to beryllium gone a day, but nary 1 has seen aliases heard from her successful 2 weeks. She near her four-year-old girl successful nan attraction of her roommate and ne'er came back. The kid has since been placed pinch Child Protective Services.

“So, unluckily our detectives made galore attempts to interaction Yasmin’s relative and mother and they’re being very uncooperative,” Natalie Garcia pinch nan Santa Ana Police Department said.

A roommate told constabulary that her mother and relative whitethorn person taken her to a installation successful Mexico, a declare constabulary are moving to verify. There was besides a declare that Gonzalez Benitez was going to sojourn her brother.

Investigators person not been capable to corroborate whether Gonzalez Benitez, who was calved successful nan United States, has a relative successful Tijuana.

Garcia said nan circumstances surrounding her disappearance are concerning, adding that it would beryllium retired of characteristic for Gonzalez Benitez to time off her girl down for truthful agelong without immoderate explanation.

“She would return her to preschool,” Garcia said. “She would travel home. She would work, but she ever had personification successful nan attraction of her daughter. She ne'er near for much than a mates of days pinch nan daughter, truthful this is very suspicious to us.”

Police are asking anyone pinch accusation astir Gonzalez Benitez’s whereabouts to travel forward.