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Police have issued a Turquoise Alert to search for a missing 16-year-old girl. Arizona Continuing.
According to the city of Mesa, Yolin Hermios was last seen at 6:50 p.m. Saturday and has “not been seen or heard from since.” Police Department.
Authorities decided to intensify their search Sunday morning as the investigation entered its second day.
One of the police alerts reads, “The family is concerned for her welfare as it is out of character for her to be missing for a long period of time.”
Hermios is described in a police statement A Pacific Islander who was last seen wearing red shorts, a black shirt and black shoes. She has brown hair, “green fade highlights” and brown eyes.
Anyone with further information is urged to contact police.
Turquoise Alert is a special alert system used by Arizona police to notify residents about a missing Indigenous person.
This system was installed on May 21 Governor Katie Hobbs signs Emily’s Law In honor of murdered 14-year-old Emily Pike.
Pike’s mutilated body was found on a trail near U.S. Highway 60, in a horrific crime that shocked Arizona’s Native American communities.
The teen’s remains were found about 100 miles from her group home in Mesa. When Pike complained of sexual harassment, she ran away from home several times.
his body was found On February 27, 2025, however, no killer was found.
Emily’s uncle, Allred Pike Jr., spoke to reporters shortly after the bill was signed in his niece’s name.
“It is good that there is an alert system in place for the entire Indian country,” he said. “But the hard thing is that it’s named after my brother and Steph’s daughter, and she’s not here anymore.”
Governor Hobbs added this Emily She would have celebrated her fifteenth birthday just a week before the law was signed and should have “celebrated with friends and family.”
“While this bill was being considered in the state legislature, we learned of the senseless murder of this beautiful 14-year-old Emily, a member of the San Carlos Apache Tribe,” Hobbs said as he signed the legislation. “No parent, no tribal community should lose their child, their young member, to violence.”