A 14-year-old Indigenous girl was safely located on Monday, Sept. 30, a week after she initially went missing.
The Cortez Police Department was notified that Peaches Peabody was found at 9:06 a.m. by the Blanding Police Department in Utah, said Kelly Codner, the public information officer at CPD.
Peabody had last been seen at 6 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 23 wearing gray sweatpants and a black tee shirt near Walmart in Cortez.
She’s 5 feet 4 inches tall and 215 pounds. Peabody has shoulder length black hair and piercings on her lip and nose.
Peabody’s grandmother first made the call to the Cortez Police Department about 11 p.m. Monday after she didn’t come home from Southwest Open High School.
She was supposed to ride the bus home with her sister on Monday, but told her that she was going to stay after school for tutoring.
She was seen in a white sedan with an unknown license plate with an unknown male, according to the police report.
Her grandmother told police the male driving the car was a heavyset Indigenous male, possibly in his 20s. He has curly, bleach blonde hair and the white car had no tint on the windows.
Peabody reportedly Snapchatted a photo that she was planning to go to the Durango area with that male.
Her phone has been turned off since 6:40 p.m. At that time, it showed her 4 miles east of Mancos.
