A 30-year-old Hawaii woman at the center of a missing people search in Los Angeles intentionally traveled to Mexico, apparently out of a desire to “disconnect,” police said Monday.

The case involving Hannah Kobayashi of Maui has been reclassified as a “voluntary missing person” case, but it will be kept open until police are sure she is safe, Los Angeles Police Chief Jim McDonnell said at a meeting Monday evening Press conference.

McDonnell added that there was no evidence that Kobayashi was a victim of human trafficking or crime.

Lt. Douglas Oldfield of the police Missing Persons Unit said at the news conference that investigators had reviewed Kobayashi’s social media accounts, which led them to believe she “wanted to disconnect.”

“When we looked at their past social media, we then saw indications that there were some desires or posts that would be consistent with someone who felt the desire to disconnect from their phone,” he said.

He said investigators couldn’t say they were “100% right” in their decision, but that they knew she didn’t have her phone with her after she left Los Angeles International Airport.

The press conference came after NBC Los Angeles reported that family members were surprised when McDonnell told the Los Angeles Police Commission last week that Kobayashi intentionally missed a connecting flight to New York City after landing in Los Angeles on November 8 was.

On Monday, McDonnell said Kobayashi had her luggage rerouted from New York City back to Los Angeles, where she picked it up on Nov. 11.

That missed flight brought her to Los Angeles, where she lost contact with family members, which raised concerns and eventually led them to report her missing to the Los Angeles International Airport Police Department and the FBI, sources said.

Security video showing Kobayashi with an unidentified man in Los Angeles sparked more fear, as did text messages in which Kobayashi said someone was trying to steal from her, family members said in interviews last month.

Police said Monday that the man seen in security video with Kobayashi in Los Angeles was found and was cooperating with investigators, who concluded there was no wrongdoing.

According to NBC Los Angeles, family members also expressed dismay that McDonnell misstated Kobayashi’s age as 23 in his usual report to the police commission. They said he also misstated the date she was reported missing, the station reported.

Aunt Larie Pidgeon declined to comment Monday.

Kobayashi landed at LAX from Honolulu at 9:53 p.m. on Nov. 8 and planned to take a connecting flight to New York City at 11 p.m., Sister Sydni Kobayashi said in a timeline posted on the private Facebook page “Help Us Find Hannah” was published.

Hannah Kobayashi planned to visit New York’s Museum of Modern Art and experience the Manhattan art scene because she wanted to become an artist and photographer, her family said.

But Kobayashi missed her connecting flight to New York because she didn’t have enough time to get from her arrival gate to the departure gate, Pidgeon said in an interview last month.

Relatives said Kobayashi spent the time, presumably waiting for a suitable flight to New York, sightseeing in Los Angeles.

She went to The Grove shopping center in the Beverly Grove neighborhood, about 12 miles north of Los Angeles International Airport, the next day and the day after, returning to LAX each time, according to the Facebook timeline.

Kobayashi posted a photo on her Instagram account that appeared to have been taken near The Grove, which was confirmed by NBC News to be her account.

On Nov. 11, she was seen talking to a ticket agent at the airport before boarding a subway train to South Los Angeles and then to downtown Los Angeles in the company of the unidentified man, police said.

Family members said she sent messages that day that disturbed them because of the content and a voice that didn’t match hers.

“Hannah’s last message to us was alarming – she mentioned that she was scared and that someone might try to steal her money and identity,” Pidgeon, Kobayashi’s aunt, said on Facebook.

The next morning, November 12, she was seen at a Greyhound bus stop downtown without anyone accompanying her, according to the Facebook timeline.

It was the last day any family member knew of her whereabouts, Pidgeon said.

McDonnell said Kobayashi was reported missing on Nov. 13, but the LAPD took over the case on Nov. 15. An FBI spokesman said the FBI was assisting in the investigation.

Police said Monday they viewed U.S. Customs and Border Protection video showing Kobayashi entering Mexico at a land port in the San Ysidro neighborhood of San Diego at 12:13 p.m. on Nov. 12.

Kobayashi had done nothing criminal and had every right to move freely in this way, said McDonnell, the police chief, but urged them to contact family members because they were concerned.

“She has a right to her privacy and we respect her decisions, but we also understand the concern her loved ones feel for her,” he said. “A simple message could reassure those who care.”

Police said her father died by suicide near Los Angeles International Airport on Nov. 24 after relatives gathered in Los Angeles to search for Kobayashi.

The Los Angeles County coroner said 58-year-old Ryan Kobayashi died as a result of multiple traumatic blunt force injuries.

“I’m very sorry to the family for everything they’ve been through,” McDonnell said.

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