UPDATE: At about 5:00 a.am. (CDT), New Mexico State Police said, “She was located in Santa Rosa, NM and is okay. The Roosevelt County Sheriff’s Department is investigating.”
A few minutes after 11:00 pm Sunday night, the New Mexico State Police sent out notice of an Amber Alert for Victoria Teakell, 16, who went missing from Roosevelt County – just south of Portales.
MissingKids.org said, “The child is believed to have been forcibly abducted.”
A copy of the alert is as follows:
THE FOLLOWING IS AN AMBER ALERT FOR THE ROOSEVELT COUNTY SHERIFF’S DEPARTMENT. Please contact the Roosevelt County Sheriff’s Department for questions at 575-356-4408.
Victoria Teakell was last seen today in Roosevelt County around 4:00 p.m. Victoria Teakell is described as a sixteen year old Hispanic female, approximately five feet four inches tall, weighing 125 pounds, with brown eyes and long black hair. Victoria was last seen wearing a black ankle-length skirt, black slip-on dress shoes, a multi-colored plaid button-up dress shirt with pink and purple.
An unknown vehicle, possibly an SUV, was seen by a witness where Victoria was last observed near South Roosevelt Road U and South Roosevelt Road 9, approximately six miles outside Portales, NM.
Anyone with information should contact the Roosevelt County Sheriff’s Department at 575-356-4408.