CRYSTAL SANCHEZ - 14 yo - Porterville CA

The mother of a missing Porterville teen is asking for community help in finding her daughter.
Martha Sanchez reported her daughter missing Aug. 29 to the
Porterville Police Department, but an investigation has yielded no
results. The teenager has run away before, but never for this long,
her mother Martha Sanchez said.
According to Sergeant Jake Castellow, Crystal Sanchez has run away nearly 20 times before.
“It looks like she’s trying to avoid law enforcement detection,” he said.
Crystal Sanchez is 5 feet two inches tall, with brown hair and brown eyes. She was last seen in the 100 block of North F Street.
Martha Sanchez said she does not believe the police are looking for her daughter.
But Castellow said “the case is under investigation.”
When a detective searches for a habitual run a away, he contacts all the people associated with her.
“Not only in this specific case, but with any habitual runaway, it overloads the investigator,” he said.
Unless the missing person is at risk, disabled, or missing under an unknown circumstance, all the cases go to one detective.
Castellow could not estimate how many habitual runaways the
Porterville detective assigned to these types of cases is currently
managing.
To help a detective find a runaway, Castellow suggested parents call authorities immediately.
“Usually people wait a day to call, but it makes it harder,” he said.

A teen who went missing Aug. 29 was found and arrested Wednesday night.
Fourteen-year-old Crystal Sanchez is being held in Juvenile Hall,
and goes to court today for her detention hearing, according to her
mother Martha Sanchez.
She was found in the 15400 block of Dogwood Street in Porterville and arrested on a felony warrant, authorities report.
A judge will determine whether she should remain in custody.
Martha Sanchez previously sought help in finding her daughter, who has run away about 20 times prior to this incident.
Details could not be provided about the arrest warrant, because she
is a juvenile, according to Porterville Police Department Sergeant Jake
Castellow.