Police in Los Angeles, California are now considering the disappearance of a Hawaii woman a “voluntary missing person” case after she was caught on surveillance footage crossing the border on foot.
30-year-old Hannah Kobayashi “knowingly departed” the Los Angeles Airport, missing a connecting flight to New York from Maui on Nov. 11, police said on Monday.
She then went to Union Station and used her passport to buy a bus ticket to the border, where she was spotted near Tijuana on Nov. 12.
“The investigators noted that before departing Maui, Kobayashi expressed a desire to step away from modern connectivity,” police said.
Authorities urged Kobayashi to contact the American Embassy or police in Mexico to “confirm her wellbeing.”
Nearly two weeks after Kobayashi’s disappearance, her devastated father took his own life near where she was last seen at the airport.
