"Azia has been through the legal system and has been harshly judged by so many. "I can tell you that her being incarcerated has nothing to do with her being missing," Lisa Saldana said. She also makes a plea for people to not pre-judge her daughter. Saldana said she spoke "briefly' with her daughter Sunday, but "she has not disclosed any information about what or where she has been through." "I would like to start out with a big 'thank you' to Stacy Koester and her team of road warriors of Wyoming for all the time, help, support, dedication and love that they have given to me through all of this," she said. In a statement to Cowboy State Daily, Azia'a mother, Lisa Saldana, said the family is grateful for the help and support its had since the search began for her daughter. Koester told Cowboy State Daily at the time that Azia said that she wanted to come home.īecause of the phone call and follow-up text messages with Azia, Torrington police stopped considering her a missing person. There were several male voices in the background, but Azia didn’t say who she was with. That Phone CallĮarlier this month, Azia called her mother from an unknown number, telling her to stop looking for her and that she was OK.Īzia didn’t tell her mother where she was, but that she thought she could be in Tucson, Arizona. In the three months since her disappearance, Azia rarely reached out to her family and could not tell her mother or the Torrington Police Department where she was or who she was with. The only thing we can say now is she’s safe because she’s incarcerated.”Īzia disappeared after telling her family she was going to play slot machines at a Torrington truck stop. “We still do not know what was done to her, where she was or who she was with. “We do not know what happened to her in the three months nobody heard from her,” she said. Azia will be safe in incarceration, but many questions remain unanswered. Koester said the Saldana family is relieved despite the circumstances. “That’s how we were able to locate her as arrested.” “I contacted one of the lawyers, and he gave me insight on how to look up new cases and recent arrests,” she told Cowboy State Daily. Koester said the first indication that Azia was located was when her mother, Lisa, started getting strange emails from lawyers offering to assist with Azia’s case. Stacy Koester, a volunteer private investigator with Road Warriors for the Missing, has been working on Saldana’s case since she was reported missing Aug. She is being held at the Downtown Detention Center on a bond of $5,000. Saldana was booked into the Denver County Downtown Detention Center on Thursday on suspicion of felony possession and distribution of fentanyl, as well as an additional Wyoming warrant for earlier drug offenses.Īzia also faces misdemeanor charges of careless driving, failing to report an accident and driving without insurance. And while shefaces some serious charges, her family says they’re relieved to knowshe’s alive and safe. Nearly three months after she mysteriously vanished in Torrington,Wyoming, Azia Saldana, 33, has been arrested in Denver.
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