According to police, a missing Hawaii woman traveled to Mexico and is not considered missing

According to police, a missing Hawaii woman traveled to Mexico and is not considered missing

LOS ANGELES – A Hawaii woman who disappeared after landing in Los Angeles was seen traveling to Mexico alone with her luggage and is not considered missing, police said Monday.

Around noon on Nov. 12, 30-year-old Hannah Kobayashi entered the tunnel leading to Mexico, officials said, adding that there was no evidence that she was a victim of human trafficking or a victim of a crime. According to police, the case is now classified as a “voluntary missing person.”

“We basically did everything we could do at that point. She left the country and is now in another country,” said Los Angeles Police Department Chief Jim McDonnell

Kobayashi went missing after the aspiring photographer from Maui failed to catch a connecting flight to New York on November 8 to start a new job and visit relatives. She told her family that she would sleep at Los Angeles International Airport that night.

According to her aunt, Larie Pidgeon, family members assumed she was ready for another flight. The next day, Hannah texted them and told them she was sightseeing in Los Angeles and planned to visit The Grove mall and downtown L.A., Pidgeon said.

On November 11, the family received “strange and cryptic, just alarming” text messages from her phone indicating that she had been “intercepted” while boarding a subway train and was afraid that someone was her Identity could be stolen, her aunt said.

Her father, Ryan Kobayashi, who had been on the search party with volunteers, was found dead in a parking lot near LA International Airport on Sunday of an apparent suicide, police and her family said.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection surveillance video that Los Angeles police reviewed late Sunday showed her crossing the U.S.-Mexico border on foot. McDonnell said she appeared to be uninjured.

“I ask anyone who is thinking about doing this to think about the people you leave behind, your loved ones who will be very worried about you,” McDonnell said. “The number of people, including law enforcement and other partners, who will be looking for you, which may then distract them from other work that is also critically important.”

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