JASMINE ESPIRICUETA - 17 yo - Alton TX

Police are searching for a runaway teenager feared to be held against her will.
Jasmine L. Espiricueta, 17, had been reported missing on Oct. 17,
acting Alton Police Chief Enrique Sotelo said. Her parents say the girl
has left home before and returned safely, but they worry this time may
be different.
“I just want her home,” her father, Jose Espiricueta, said. “Right now we’re just letting police do what they do.”
He said the girl told relatives she was going to a friend’s house
the day of her disappearance. Three days later, while he was at work,
she returned to his house in a green Ford Focus to pick up her
belongings.
Sotelo said the girl was accompanied by two black males from the
Edinburg area: her boyfriend Felix Lee Williams and friend James
Mortel. Williams later told police he and Jasmine broke up about 1:30
p.m. Halloween night at Peter Piper Pizza, 2210 W. University Drive,
Edinburg.

Police subsequently obtained surveillance video of the couple at the
restaurant. She was wearing a dark, long-sleeve shirt, a white
undershirt, dark pants and white tennis shoes.
Janie Mendiola, Jasmine’s mother, said she received a phone call
from the teen the afternoon of Oct. 31. Jasmine was sobbing and told
her mother she wished to return home but that the people she was with
wouldn’t let her leave her location. Mendiola then asked her daughter
where she was, but the girl said she didn’t know. The call abruptly
ended moments later.
Mendiola said she continued calling her daughter, and about 1 a.m.
Sunday a male with a Mexican accent answered and asked the woman to
identify herself. Mendiola complied and the man hung up the phone.
Calls to the girl’s cell phone have since gone unanswered.
“I keep calling,” the mother said. “I just need communication with her. Just something.”
The McAllen Police Department, the FBI and the National Center for
Missing and Exploited Children are assisting the Alton Police
Department with the investigation.
“We’ve already looked into all the leads we have,” Alton’s Chief Sotelo said. “They’ve pretty much been somewhat of a dead end.”
Jasmine had most recently been living with her father, who cares for
the teen’s 2-year-old son. She previously lived at her mother’s house.
Adding to her parents’ fears, Jasmine suffers from bipolar syndrome and is recovering from severe depression.
“She gets disoriented,” her father said. “She blacks out if she’s overwhelmed.”

Investigators say a missing Alton teen sent her mother a text message on Monday.We're
told 17-year-old Jasmine Espericueta wrote she was staying at an
abandoned home with another woman. But she didn't know the location.The
teen was last seen at the Peter Piper Pizza on University Drive on
Halloween. Authorities say Espericueta called her mom that afternoon.The
phone call made her mother, Janie Mendiola, nervous. Her daughter was
allegedly crying. At one point, a man answered the phone and then hung
up.The teen's mother says she's run away before but always let her parents know she was fine.Alton police, FBI agents, and the Center for Missing and Exploited Children are all investigating.The teen's 2-year-old is staying with his grandparents.

Jasmine L. Espiricueta - no updates on her missing status that i can find. so sad for her family.

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Missing Alton teen back with family

ALTON — The 17-year-old girl who was reported missing and feared kidnapped weeks ago has been reunited with her family, Alton police said Wednesday.

Jasmine Espericueta was reported missing on Oct. 17 after being gone from home for two days, said Alton police investigator Sgt. Mike Luna. On Halloween, the girl reportedly contacted her mother, saying she wanted to go home, but said the people holding her wouldn’t let her go.

For days, the girl’s family appeared on television newscasts pleading for her return. In previous media reports, her family said the teenaged mother had run away from home before, but Luna said the contact she made with her family indicated she may have been taken against her will. Once Alton police upgraded her status from missing to a possible kidnapping, authorities with the statewide Missing and Exploited Children database contacted Luna and offered to print signs notifying residents on her possible abduction. The group also contacted the Federal Bureau of Investigations for their involvement also, Luna said.

“There was an abundance of help,” he explained.

Police are still working on the case, trying to determine if Espericueta was taken against her will or left home.

“She’s a frequent runaway,” Luna said.

Espericueta reportedly also text messaged a friend, telling them she was in an abandoned home, before her mother found her in Pharr on Nov. 8. Luna said it’s unclear how Espericueta’s mother located her and is still trying to interview her for the case.

“We’re still trying to get the story straight,” Luna said.

If Alton police discover Espericueta left her home on her own, there’s no indication she’ll be charged criminally. Luna said her age and status as a parent could allow her to leave her parent’s home without consequence.

“Above all, though, even if she did have a history of running away, we wanted to make sure she’s okay,” Luna said.

Luna explained that parents should report their children missing immediately and not wait a day or two, as often shown on television.

“The moment they’re gone they can report them missing because that helps us,” Luna said. “Because even one day is a lot of time.”