An Arizona teenager who disappeared nearly four years ago is safe after walking into a police station in Montana, authorities said.

Alicia Navarro, 18, of Glendale, showed up alone this week in a small town about 40 miles (64 kilometers) from the Canadian border and identified herself, police in Glendale, a Phoenix suburb, said Wednesday.

Her disappearance sparked a massive search that included the FBI. Santiago said over the years, police had received thousands of tips.

Her mother, Jessica Nunez, raised concerns that Navarro, who was diagnosed as high-functioning on the autism spectrum, may have been lured away by someone she met online.

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Investigators were trying to determine what happened to Navarro after her disappearance at age 14 on Sept. 15, 2019.

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Police said she wasn含羞草研究社檛 being held and could come and go as she pleased. She does not face any criminal charges, they added.

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Lt. Scott Waite said that Navarro had an 含羞草研究社渆motionally overwhelming含羞草研究社� reunion with her mother and was 含羞草研究社渧ery apologetic (as) to what she has put her mother through.含羞草研究社�

Nunez confirmed that her daughter had been found but said she had no details.

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